Southern Baptist Ministers Lead Prayer For Obama's Death

Several Southern Baptist Ministers across the nation are leading prayers
in their congregations asking God to kill Obama and “leave his children
fatherless.” They reference Psalm 109:8 as a biblical commandment for
all Christians to pray for Obama’s quick death. John Avlon interviews
two of the ministers and reports:

Praying for President Obama’s death has become a sick cottage industry
for some evangelicals on the lunatic fringe. Bumper stickers, T-shirts,
and teddy bears are sold with the wholesome-sounding slogan “Pray for
Obama” but tagged with the more troublesome “Psalm 109:8”—which reads
“May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership” followed
by “May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.”

In Wingnut circles, it’s known as the “Imprecatory Prayer.” Offered not
just from select pulpits, but increasingly expressed through tweets and
forwarded via email, this decidedly un-Christian Christian subculture
has found its most enthusiastic advocates in a few Obama Derangement
Syndrome-afflicted preachers—notably Orange County’s Wiley Drake and
Arizona’s Steven L. Anderson.

Pastor Wiley Drake kicked off this Presidents’ Day Weekend with an email
blast to his supporters saying “Imprecatory Prayer is now our DUTY” and
announcing a daily teleconference call to advance the cause. Drake has
been an enthusiastic advocate of imprecatory prayer since he announced
that God answered his call with the murder of Kansas abortion clinic
doctor George Tiller in church last May. “George Tiller was far greater
in his atrocities than Adolf Hitler,” Drake said at the time, “so I am
happy. I am glad that he is dead.” This emboldened him to add “the
usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said
in his church on Sundays.

Sadly, Drake is not a complete fringe figure. He served as a second vice
president of the Southern Baptist Convention in ‘06 and ‘07. In ‘08, he
received 47,000 votes as the vice-presidential nominee of the American
Independent Party, alongside conservative activist Alan Keyes, Obama’s
GOP opponent when he was elected to the Senate in 2004. I drove out to
visit him in December for a profile in my book Wingnuts. I wanted to get
a better sense of what someone is like who would pray for the
president’s death.

It is often reported that self-identification as a Christian is
declining in America. Those in the republican “family values” right wing
claim its because of the left wing waging a “War on Christianity and
Christian Values”. Could it be that folks are really turning away from
Christianity because of lunatics like these calling themselves
Christians and giving the rest of us a bad name?

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What's the difference between some muslim mullahs and some christian
pastors?

No difference at all.



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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:35:44 -0500, HK
wrote:

Southern Baptist Ministers Lead Prayer For Obama's Death

With Christians like this, who needs radical Muslims?