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Comments on evangelical baggage, imprecatory prayer, and other subjects.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 10/01/2007 09:18AM

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"I'm an evangelical with a capital E. I hesitate to make such a confession, for I am painfully aware of the baggage the label carries. Without wanting to blame Americans for all the problems of the world, it is, well, largely their fault."
Joel Edwards, president of the Evangelical Alliance U.K.
(Source: The Times)

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"The righteous have dominion, but only through imprecatory prayer against the ungodly."
Wiley S. Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, California, urging Christians to pray against Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
(Source: Christian NewsWire)

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"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on, we will name God Allah?"
Martinus "Tiny" Muskens, Roman Catholic bishop of Breda, Netherlands.
(Source: Netwerk.tv)

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"The emphasis I tried to leave was love … that they need to have love for the people who were opposed to them."
Billy Graham, on his relationship with 11 presidents.
(Source: Time)

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"Whether a woman works outside or strictly in the home, her first priority is her family and home. We just really want to step up and provide some of these skills."
Terri Stovall, dean of women's programs at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which offers a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking.
(Source: The Associated Press)

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John	Posted: October 01, 2007 4:27 PM

"Hitler" is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we say from now on, we will name God "Hitler"? Wake up people, notwithstanding our idiot President's misadventure in Iraq, and in some ways BECAUSE of it, we are at war with Islam, or more accurately, they are at war with us. Just like Churchill said of the Germans, the Muslim is either at your throat or under your heel. Germany and Japan changed to modern Western democracies because we crushed them thoroughly. That may be what we have to do in the Middle East as well, but never, for a minute, let your guard down, these people would kill you as quickly as they could spit given the means and the opportunity.

Thomas

Posted: October 02, 2007 3:18 PM

Joel Edwards first step should be to resign from the Evangelical Alliance, seeing how he is hesitating to call himself one because of shame. Then he should do a little study of history. I am not defending all that the United States has done, but what I am most ashamed of as an American is that my government and many citizens have stooped to do the same things we decried in others. This is a long shot from being the cause of most problems. Mr. Edwards is as much as saying that if we had erased the United States from the world, then we would have less than 50% of the problems we do. The fact that such a man has reached a position of leadership scares me.

Chuck

Posted: October 04, 2007 6:47 AM


Let's see, shalom aleichem, salaam aleikum, or pax vobiscum- of the three which is more correct?