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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Interview With the Rev. Franklin Graham, Birther Espousing Lying Preacher.




Proof of Graham's outright lies concerning Obama's religious faith on top of his lies about Obama's birth certificate.

President Obama published 1/23/2008

"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=2

None of this discussion about birtherism or Obama's religion have anything to do with his place of birth or his religion.  It is all about his racist.  Evangelical Christianity and anti-black racism have walked together from their beginnings.  The largest evangelical denomination,  the "Southern Baptists" were born out of their break with the northern Baptists who believed American slave system which treated humans as animals, not human beings was incompatible with Christianity.

Evangelicals were the last Christians to accept civil rights for African Americans.  It took the Southern Baptists to 1998 to do this.  The Mormons were even worse.  Racism is embedded in the very core doctrines of their fait.

If people were truly inspired by God would they not have led the way towards justice as Jesus did?  Some thoughts to ponder on the Easter Sunday.  

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity  | ajc.com

Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity | ajc.com
A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.
Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.
Mohler said he objects to "the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine."
"That's just not Christianity," Mohler told The Associated Press.
Mohler said feedback has come through e-mail and comments on blogs and other websites since he wrote an essay to address questions about yoga he has heard for years.
"I'm really surprised by the depth of the commitment to yoga found on the part of many who identify as Christians," Mohler said.
Yoga fans say their numbers have been growing in the U.S. A 2008 study by the Yoga Journal put the number at 15.8 million, or nearly 7 percent of adults. About 6.7 percent of American adults are Southern Baptists, according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Mohler argued in his online essay last month that Christians who practice yoga "must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga."
He said his view is "not an eccentric Christian position."
Other Christian leaders have said practicing yoga is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. Pat Robertson has called the chanting and other spiritual components that go along with yoga "really spooky." California megachurch pastor John MacArthur called yoga a "false religion." Muslim clerics have banned Muslims from practicing yoga in Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, citing similar concerns.
Yoga proponents say the wide-ranging discipline, which originated in India, offers physical and mental healing through stretching poses and concentration.
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When will this denomination, born out of a support for slavery and segregation, wake up and smell the coffee?  These folks give Christianity a bad name.