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> McCain's Spiritual Guide
>
> Destroy Islam
>
> Televangelist Rod Parsley, a key McCain ally in Ohio, has called for
> eradicating the "false
> religion." Will the GOP presidential candidate renounce him?
>
> By David Corn
> 13/03/08 "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 im****tant 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 homo***ual "culture" ("homo***uals 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.
>
> In a chapter titled "Islam: The Deception of Allah," Parsley warns there
> is a "war between
> Islam and Christian civilization." He continues:
>
>
>
> I cannot tell you how im****tant it is that we understand the true
> nature of Islam, that we
> see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not
> believe our country can
> truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical
> conflict with Islam. I know
> that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its
> implications. The fact is that
> America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false
> religion destroyed, and I
> believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can
> no longer ignore.
>
>
>
> Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No
> More, he
> notes-approvingly-that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: "It
> was to defeat Islam,
> among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in
> 1492.Columbus dreamed
> of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty
> by the wealth of the New
> World. It was this dream that, in part, began America." He urges his
> readers to realize that a
> confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: "We find
> now we have no choice.
> The time has come." And he has bad news: "We may already be losing the
> battle. As I scan the
> world, I find that Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed,
> and more devastation
> than nearly any other force on earth at this moment."
>
> Parsley claims that Islam is an "anti-Christ religion" predicated on
> "deception." The Muslim
> prophet Muhammad, he writes, "received revelations from demons and not
> from the true God." And
> he emphasizes this point: "Allah was a demon spirit." Parsley does not
> differentiate between
> violent Islamic extremists and other followers of the religion:
>
>
>
> There are some, of course, who will say that the violence I cite is
> the exception and not
> the rule. I beg to differ. I will counter, respectfully, that what some
> call "extremists" are
> instead mainstream believers who are drawing from the well at the very
> heart of Islam.
>
>
>
> The spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of hostility. He asserts that
> the religion "inspired"
> the 9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years after 9/11,
> 34,000 Americans "have
> become Muslim" and that there are "some 1,209 mosques" in America.
> Islam, he declares, is a
> "faith that fully intends to conquer the world" through violence. The
> United States, he
> insists, "has historically understood herself as a bastion against
> Islam," but "history is
> cra****ng in upon us."
>
> At the end of his chapter on Islam, Parsley asks, "Are we a Christian
> nation? I say yes."
> Without specifying what actions should be taken to eradicate the
> religion, he essentially calls
> for a new crusade.
>
> Parsley, who refers to himself as a "Christocrat," is no stranger to
> controversy. In 2007, the
> grassroots organization he founded, the Center for Moral Clarity, called
> for prosecuting people
> who commit adultery. In January, he compared Planned Parenthood to
> Nazis. In the past Parsley's
> church has been accused of engaging in pro-Republican partisan
> activities in violation of its
> tax-exempt status.
>
> Why would McCain court Parsley? He has long had trouble figuring out how
> to deal with Christian
> fundamentalists, an im****tant bloc for the Republican Party. During his
> 2000 presidential bid,
> he referred to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "agents of
> intolerance." But six years later,
> as he readied himself for another White House run, McCain repudiated
> that remark. More
> recently, his campaign hit a rough patch when he accepted the
> endorsement of the Reverend John
> Hagee, a Texas televangelist who has called the Catholic Church "the
> great whore" and a "false
> cult system." After the Catholic League protested and called on McCain
> to renounce Hagee's
> sup****t, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee praised Hagee's
> spiritual leader****p
> and sup****t of Israel and said that "when [Hagee] endorses me, it does
> not mean that I embrace
> everything that he stands for or believes in." After being further
> criticized for his Hagee
> connection, McCain backed off slightly, saying, "I repudiate any
> comments that are made,
> including Pastor Hagee's, if they are anti-Catholic or offensive to
> Catholics." But McCain did
> not renounce Hagee's endorsement.
>
> McCain's relation****p with Parsley is politically significant. In 2004,
> Parsley's church was
> credited with driving Christian fundamentalist voters to the polls for
> George W. Bush. With
> Ohio expected to again be a decisive state in the presidential contest,
> Parsley's World Harvest
> Church and an affiliated entity called Reformation Ohio, which registers
> voters, could be
> im****tant players within this battleground state. Considering that the
> Ohio Republican Party
> has been decimated by various political scandals and that a popular
> Democrat, Ted Strickland,
> is now the state's governor, McCain and the Republicans will need all
> the help they can get in
> the Buckeye State this fall. It's a real question: Can McCain win the
> presidency without Parsley?
>
> The McCain campaign did not respond to a request for comment regarding
> Parsley and his
> anti-Islam writings. Parsley did not return a call seeking comment.
>
> "The last thing I want to be is another screaming voice moving people to
> extremes and provoking
> them to folly in the name of patriotism," Parsley writes in Silent No
> More. Provoking people to
> holy war is another matter. About that, McCain so far is silent.
>
> David Corn is Mother Jones' Wa****ngton, D.C. bureau chief
>
>
http://www.motherjones.com/wa****ngton_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html
Oh sorry Amico to hear your sad news, I know McCain, he's a pain in the
neck, he's a foolish Jewish who wants to use US resources to make Stupid
War with IRAN like his evil master GW Hitler Bush... Believe me, this
time, it will be America the big loser because I see the apocalypse is
coming.
Americuna is very stupid in their mind, they see every one as evil except
themselves. Amico, you don't need to go to Church to tell who is good
and who is evil. You can tell by the conduct, not by word alone......
Entendes? Tomorrow I give you more Taco Ok Amico? Don't feel bad.....
Gracia,
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