John McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Calls For Destruction Of Islam

Mother Jones:

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."

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Comments

[DavidAF]

This is why Religion has no place in the world, period. All it does is help inflate the ignorances of people in this world. Christians and Muslims are the true cons and murders in all of history.

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

Bet this philosphy will gain him a few rightwing nutjob votes!!!

[JacobSinger]

From the article:

"Parsley claims that Islam is an "anti-Christ religion" predicated on "deception­.""

I claim that CHRISTIANITY is an "anti-Christ religion" predicated on deception.

Many of us in this country were exposed to Christianity at an early age and for a extended period of time; from those experiences many of us also became well acquainted with the CORE concepts of Jesus' teachings.

Sometimes I wonder...d­on't most Christians understand that the social issues they're so fired up about are areas where their savior admonished them to turn the other cheek, and to love and forgive those they don't agree with? Where did they lose the primary concept of treating others as they would treat you? The answer is, of course, that they lost it at the very beginning, and have evolved as a spiritually-inbred confederacy of dunces, each generation increasing the distance they've moved from the core concepts that their belief system is supposedly built upon.

It's a sad truth, IMO, that Christ would have little use or respect for most self-proclaimed Christians.

[Progress08]

Were he around today he'd be labelled a "Liberal Cut-n-Runner" and relegated to a Free-Speech zone at least 1000 feet away from the White-House.

[fact finder]

So OBL was right . it is not a war against terror but a war against Islam.This is the kind of religious fanatic that cause's death piled on top of death. This is not a Christian but a fanatical zealot. A terribly dangerous person.

[Svenson]

Obama's spiritual leader call for the destruction of America!

Well maybe Obamdiots and Olberman should watch this video from ABC News.


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4443230

Now will Olberman make his 'state of his union with Obama speech' and what is he going to say?

Obama should apologize to all Americans!

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

Obama, as well as Senator Clinton should apologize for NOTHING that did not come out of their own mouths. Hell...you can't control everything your campaign staff utters, no matter how stupid. Senators Obama and Clinton, neither one, have said anything the least bit offensive about the other. People need to get off their high horses and let this thing play itself out.

[Janus]

Parsley will doubtless follow his usual mode of pacing, sweating, Bible-waving, and add a squalling not so subtle message that God-fearing voters must vote Republican for McBomb to continue the Bush II Era of Disaster through more military spending, more belligerence, alienation of the World, bigger and better tax cuts for the upper .5% of incomes and simultaneously bigger and more borrowing for our war(s) from Japanese-C­hinese-Bri­tish creditors whose debt is not carried in the U.S. Budget. The pathetic Dupes will inevitably join the effort by waving flags, ranting against "them libruls", and voting against their own interests come November.

The Bush lunacy about the war debt is like a married couple with a couple of kids living off their regular income but leaving the home mortgage and car payments off the budget and borrowing the money to pay those off-budget items each month.

Vote McBomb into the White House and endure another four years of the Bush II Disaster, the equivalent of a third term for the worst president in U.S. history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/opinion/13thu3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[paixa3]

Geezuzz, I thought spiritualism is to find peace, an omnipotent or something, but KILLING PEOPLE.

What a FUCKED UP NATION.

[robertlockwoodmills]

This approach has been taken before. It was called "The Crusades."

[A Meat Beetle]

While the Democratic factions are busy tearing each other apart over which of their corporate whores should get the nomination, McCain gets a virtual pass. His ability to get through this kind of thing unscathed (because the Dems are attacking each other instead of him) will leave him strong and ready in November, while the Democratic Party will be fractured and ineffectual. McCain will plow right over them and they won't even know what hit them.

[Svenson]

Well maybe Obamdiots and Olberman should watch this video from ABC News.


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4443230

Now will Olberman make his 'state of his union with Obama speech' and what is he going to say?

Obama should apologize to all Americans!

[kingcityguru]

How about instead we build a time machine and send that religion back to the 12th century where it belongs. The continued freedom of the U.S. and its beliefs depends on crushing radical islam sooner or later. They won't stop until they crush the US>

[MAC2]

Wow, I know there are 15 warm bodies watching our comments and then we have Bushman and the NSA watching Huff. So with everyone watching I know this may not get placed on the net. But I have to say this, we have gone totally mad, we that crazy old dude from Arizona taking us to war if Bush hasn't taken us there before McCain gets in. We (DEM) won't get our choice because the Clinton dynasty is going to destroy our chances. So time to start looking...­..........­..........­..

[tumblewind]

I am so sick of these whacked out nut jobs the Republican's suck up to I could scream!!!! All they have done is totally screw the country up! But, still every election Republican's drag these freaks out to show American's how far in the sewer they have gone for a vote!

[Svenson]

Really? Obama's spiritual leader wants to destroy America.

Well maybe Obamdiots and Olberman should watch this video from ABC News.


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4443230

Now will Olberman make his 'state of his union with Obama speech' and what is he going to say?

Obama should apologize to all Americans!

[MilwaukeeMike]

Hey, now there's a way to win over their hearts and fears--while we tell them we're only there for Democracy and their safety. Think this will weaken the extremists who are telling the locals that 'the U.S. wants to destroy your religion'? Folks we're living through the modern Crusades. History does repeat itself.

[helonias]

And what will the price of oil we after we attack Iran

[BigFootJesus]

False Religion? Isn't that redundant? Religion is one of the greatest smokescreens ever invented in order to manipulate the masses into fighting wars for the ruling class. The "Holy Bible" is nothing more than a collection of almost all of the pre-christianity pagan myths consolidated into one epic story used to keep the common folk in line. Render unto Caesar my ass!