Remember November
While the focus continues to be on the two Democratic candidates and their various tactics for beating each other over the head, and which one would be a better Commander-in-Chief . . . Let's all remember that either of them is the answer when compared to their real competition, John McCain.
In addition to the bigoted Reverend Hagee, whose support McCain is "honoured" to have, there is the delightful Pastor Rod Parsley.
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.
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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 crashing 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.
And if you want someone to lead that crusade, McCain would be your choice.
Whatever my problems with the Clinton campaign or the questions about Obama, I'm far more willing to see either of them in the Oval Office. They at least, seem willing to try and prevent those 3 a.m. phone calls, not provoke them.
