McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam

[robertpaulsen]

McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam

By David Corn

March 12, 2008

Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it.

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a "strong, true, consistent conservative." The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain's effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a "spiritual guide."

The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this work, Parsley decries the "spiritual desperation" of the United States, and he blasts away at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil libertarians who advocate the separation of church and state, the homosexual "culture" ("homosexuals are anything but happy and carefree"), the "abortion industry," and the crass and profane entertainment industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat to the United States: the religion of Islam.

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http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html

[MasonJar]

1. Wow! Is this the return to the Middle Ages or not? Sounds right out of the Crusades!

[Enthusiast]

6. Have you ever listened to these nuts?

When Rosie O'Donnell said on "The View" that these nuts were more of a threat to our country than Moslem extremists, she wasn't too far off the mark. Their followers are like mindless zombies that NEVER have an original thought. These followers are true zealots.

[noel711]

2. Why is Obama's pastor getting such fire....

and this moron is being overlooked?

Which pastor presents the most threat to us?

[bhikkhu]

4. Because we're so busy tearing each other down...

and the media is too busy covering the Dem carnage to worry about McCain's whacked "spiritual advisor".

[nealmhughes]

3. He is on the same three digit cable channel as the woman with the breat implants,

collagen lips and pink wigs, the one with the fin-de-siecle Viennese cathouse TV set. The tax exempt TBN. Watching those poseurs makes one lament doubly the too early demise of Susan Sontag, she could have done a multi-volume work on high religious camp.

[kimmylavin]

5. ARGH.

Get religion the FUCK out of politics.