<snip>
In my years of attending Southern Baptist services in Texas
> and California, not once have my pastors interjected
their personal
> political views into their sermons
</snip>
The one in the largest church in the city here sure does.
His sermons are
televised too.
I stopped to listen one day while I was flipping channels
and listened to
the man spend 30 minutes spouting his political views
concerning some
alcohol vote thing that was coming up. I kept waiting for
the tie in with
something or other from the bible, but nothing. He was just
trying to
convince the congregation to vote his way. I don't know
about hate
mongering as I refused to ever watch him again.
You know, I have been thinking about it a bit and I don't
really think I
would care so much if my preacher came out with some off the
wall 'taboo'
crazy ideas. That preacher is not me. I am not defined by
what that
preacher believes. I am defined by what I choose to take
from what that
preacher teaches and by how I apply those teachings to my
life. Along the
same lines, I don't care if his preacher has some very
negative ideas about
certain races and cultures. All I care about is whether
Obama only chose to
take the positive teachings and incorporate them into his
life, which, from
that speech, it seems he has. That may be a bit naive, but
it makes sense
to me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Sorge" <sorgeb gmail.com>
To: "CF-Community" <cf-communityhouseoffusion.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Obama's speech today
>I think his speech writers did a good job. It does not
make me like the
> man any more or any less really. I just feel his speech
writers spun it
> pretty well. In my years of attending Southern Baptist
services in Texas
> and California, not once have my pastors interjected
their personal
> political views into their sermons, and they never
engaged in any kind
> of hate mongering the way that "Reverend"
Wright did. All they ever did
> was preach the Word of God, which is what they are
supposed to do.
>
> The way I see it, this is the beginning of a long line
of his dirty
> laundry being aired. The man seems like a Boy Scout and
to be honest, if
> a politician does not have some skeletons in the closet
then there is
> something wrong. Everyone has secrets. At least Clinton
and McCain have
> had years of this treatment by the press already, so
now it is Obama's
> turn.
>
> Of course this is just my opinion.
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