All Discussions Tagged 'Politics' - Black Preaching Network2024-03-29T04:58:42Zhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Politics&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Party That 'BOOED' God...(...or that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,.. 2 Thessalonians 2:3)tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-09-07:916966:Topic:44003462012-09-07T19:43:29.128ZCarmen Demetria Greenehttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/CarmenDemetriaGreene
<h2 style="color: #ff0000; font-weight: lighter;"><span class="font-size-4"><em>Luke 4:21</em></span></h2>
<h2 style="color: #ff0000; font-weight: lighter;"><span class="font-size-4"><em><span class="font-size-4">" And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled</span> in your ears."</em></span></h2>
<p><em><span class="font-size-3">For anyone whose EYES have as not seen AND there EARS have as not heard; this is the <span class="font-size-2">EVIDENCE</span> of the…</span></em></p>
<h2 style="color: #ff0000; font-weight: lighter;"><span class="font-size-4"><em>Luke 4:21</em></span></h2>
<h2 style="color: #ff0000; font-weight: lighter;"><span class="font-size-4"><em><span class="font-size-4">" And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled</span> in your ears."</em></span></h2>
<p><em><span class="font-size-3">For anyone whose EYES have as not seen AND there EARS have as not heard; this is the <span class="font-size-2">EVIDENCE</span> of the</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="font-size-5">Rooster</span> <span class="font-size-4">crowing in year 2012. THIS was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A WITNESS against Peter,</span> (All of US as Christians & Democrat), when he DENIED Jesus three, '3', times.</span></span></em></p>
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<p><em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncbOEoQbOg&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Democratic Delegates 'BOOed God'??</a></span></span></em></p>
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<p><em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="font-size-4"> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Without saying Pres. Obama is the antiChrist, in any way or shape, fashion, we black voters as Christians are being pulled away from our God, by the company we keeping. Is anyone here still doubt? Is anyone got any holy indignation at the 'servants of the devil' for taking over our party and kicking God out? We see they HATE OUR GOD, or do we only just keep standing around and smiling our 'little holy smiles'. . . cause that's all US CHRISTIANS is allowed to do to show love. If we are honest, we know it.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #ff9900;" class="font-size-5">Doing away with God in America is a sign of the beginning of the coming and the welcoming the real antiChrist. <span class="font-size-3">This is a 'FALLING AWAY, SAINTS.'</span></span><br/></em></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><em><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Let's just admit it, . . . some of us is going to overlook this, some is going to say its not that bad, or this scripture is 'out of context', republicans is racist, some is thinking Obama is a black pres, some is thinking this election isn't going to matter to that big a issue; some is scared about not getting 'food stamps' & 'supplement assistance checks,' some is going to say this is 'our party'. When is it going to be about Jesus, our witness and if we sink or swim with him.<br/></span></em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><em><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">We need to admit that our precious Jesus is being put on trial again. Black delegates who are preachers who was there and other black Christians there watched our party hollering, 'BOOOO!' Is this not, "Crucify Him!" and "Give us Barrabas!!!???" </span></em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><em><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-5">We been quiet while we was still being led away by the gay marriage push in the party - now we going along with this?</span><br/></span></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff9900;" class="font-size-4"><em><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">"Well, there's other important issues we have to consider, ..the Democrats help the poor", some big Atlanta Ga preacher said. So, I guess we have to sell our souls out for soup like Essau. <br/></span></em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Our consciences is like the Voting booth; Where we think our thoughts and intentions are private and secret. After we've prayed and fasted,..what's next, children of God? There is "ONE who knows if our voices is 'in with the DENIERS' if whether we cried it out loud or not. </span></em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;">When we ALL at the Judgement, LETS NOT HAVE TO WISH THAT ROOSTER WASN'T SUCH A TATTLE-TALE.</span><br/></span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"> </span></em></strong></span></span></p> 'The Grio' Article Disrespects Black Christians For Taking A Stance For Their Faith & Chick-Fil-Atag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-08-11:916966:Topic:43403852012-08-11T22:00:52.340ZSis. Dedre Simmshttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/SisDedreSimms
<p>The Grio, Democratic Party strategists, gay marriage activists and bloggers have come out swinging at Black Christians/Black Church community this week. And WE now have a shiny, new black eye to wear to worship service next Sunday morning!</p>
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<p>The Grio, a black internet publication owned by NBC News Corporation, published a scathing article by columnist Kirsten West-Savali, this week. West-Savali <em><strong>ridiculed</strong></em> Black Christians for agreeing with…</p>
<p>The Grio, Democratic Party strategists, gay marriage activists and bloggers have come out swinging at Black Christians/Black Church community this week. And WE now have a shiny, new black eye to wear to worship service next Sunday morning!</p>
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<p>The Grio, a black internet publication owned by NBC News Corporation, published a scathing article by columnist Kirsten West-Savali, this week. West-Savali <em><strong>ridiculed</strong></em> Black Christians for agreeing with Chick-Fil-A's owner, Dan Cathy's, biblical viewpoint of marriage, 'one man, one woman'. In a previous article with a Christian publication, Mr. Cathy stated he does not discriminate against gays, and that every human being as one of God's creations, deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and integrity. He also added that gays are employed at many of his 1,600 stores. </p>
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<p><strong><em>In spite of this reply, needless to say, . . the 'chicken feathers' began to fly.</em> </strong><em>GLBT</em> organizations, liberal media outlets, corporate giants like Amazon who donated over $2 million to 'ssm cause', responded in outrage. <strong><em>Even some prominent city/government</em> <em>officials</em></strong> swore to ban CFA from moving into their areas in the future for not supporting 'ssm'. Among these noted officials was former Obama aid/strategist, and now Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel.</p>
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<p>To counter the attempts to bring 'CFA' to its knees for <strong><em>not supporting 'ssm',</em></strong> A Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was organized via social media by evangelical pastor, Mike Huckabee. It was held August 1st, in response to the full blown assault leveled against Chick-Fil-A. It was a <strong><em>monumental</em></strong> financial success as <strong><em>hundreds of thousands</em></strong> of patrons waited for hours in lines to show their support for the right to free speech, freedom of religion and the right to not be targeted for having a <strong><em>biblical viewpoint of marriage</em></strong>. </p>
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<p>The Dem. Party has always had 95% to 98% support from the Black Church. The causes of the poor and needy has driven our support for them unconditionally for over 50 years. Now it comes down to the Party asking us to compromise our core spiritual beliefs in solidarity with its new 'civil rights' social agenda.</p>
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<p><em>WE ARE NOW BEING FORCED TO DECIDE,...... ARE WE LOYAL DEMOCRATS, STILL ALIGNED WITH THE PARTY' AND ITS PUSH FOR TOTAL RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; OR ARE WE CHRISTIANS, HAVING TO ALIGN WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS (Evangelical, Catholics, Republicans; etc) FOR THE FIRST TIME TO STAND FOR GOD''S WORD?</em></p>
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<p>She, Mrs. Savoli, quotes, "As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” We are being looked upon as traitors over some chicken!</p>
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<p><em><strong>Y<em>es, my Christian brothers and sisters, our bible beliefs - according to Mrs Savoli, The Grio and the venerated Dr. MLK,Jr., we are bordering on, or in danger of, being sincerely ignorant and conscientiously stupid!.</em></strong></em></p>
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<p><em>Here are two articles.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://thegrio.com/2012/08/07/blacks-supporting-chick-fil-a-is-eating-chicken-as-an-expression-of-religious-faith-taking-things-too-far/" target="_blank">Blacks supporting Chick-Fil-A: Is eating chicken as an expression of religious faith taking things too far?</a><strong><em> </em></strong></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/08/an-unholy-alliance-black-folks-and-chick-fil-a/" target="_blank">An Unholy Alliance: Black Folks and Chick-fil-A</a></em></p>
<p><em><strong><em><br/></em></strong></em> But not to fear. A 'Super Sister Saint' and Christian Blogger, did not take this lying down. <em> </em><span style="color: #7f7f7f;"><span class="text">Diane Hobbs of </span></span><span style="color: #7f7f7f;"><span class="text">EEW Magazine 'showed up and showed out!' </span> Here is the link to her article in response.<br/></span></p>
<p><em><strong><br/> <a href="http://buzz.eewmagazine.com/eew-magazine-buzz-blog/2012/8/9/eew-magazine-president-dianna-hobbs-strikes-back-at-nbcs-the.html" target="_blank">Diane Hobbs Strikes Back</a></strong></em></p>
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<p>All I can say is "<strong><em>Praise the Lord, saints and pass some ammunition!" saints of God, a line is being drawn in the sand. Our Spiritual warfare just went into over-drive. Who is on the Lord's side? What do we believe? What do we stand for? Whose are we? </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Student loans, worry over SS, healthcare, fear of the future is always a concern for us and our poor. But now, these issues are aligned with the Obama Administration's total commitment to institute SSM as policy. Everyone is going to have to decide - the era or time for fence sitting is over. Its prayer time for sure.</em></strong></p>
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I’d like to offer a few thoughts concerning the current political discourse revolving around the health care debate. I’ve often asked myself; how can man/people love God who he/they cannot see, but cannot love the physical being of a man who he can see? If we were about to witness the Second Coming of our Lord, another question would be; what would Jesus say? Believing and knowing that his life was lived in service of the least of thee and also died for our sins - I wonder if he would react…
I’d like to offer a few thoughts concerning the current political discourse revolving around the health care debate. I’ve often asked myself; how can man/people love God who he/they cannot see, but cannot love the physical being of a man who he can see? If we were about to witness the Second Coming of our Lord, another question would be; what would Jesus say? Believing and knowing that his life was lived in service of the least of thee and also died for our sins - I wonder if he would react much in the way he did with the thieves in the temple.<br />
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I’ve watched the outrageous antics displayed during many of these town hall meeting where the opponents of something as morally correct as helping the sick are just “acting a fool”. Many of these folks are Republicans, it’s safe to assume, who believe in the sanctity of marriage, call themselves compassionate conservatives or Christian Conservatives, and believe in the right to life. Yet, they display such outrage and bigotry over an issue that would greatly benefit so many lives.<br />
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These are, many of them, the same folks who don’t believe our current elected president is the president. In this democracy to be qualified for the job one needs to be born in America to which most reasonable people would agree Hawaii, where records clearly indicate President Obama was born, is part of America. Then of course one must be elected by a majority of voters, which he was and by some accounts a “Landslide”. These same folks are all for bringing democracy to countries around the world but they apparently are not willing to accept it when it works here. I suppose this is the hypocrisy of democracy.<br />
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While watching television coverage of the town hall debates my thoughts were, I’ve seen this before – like in 1960. At one town hall event a news report covering the issue asked someone attending the rally; what are your concern? She said, “We want our country back”. As if the country was overthrown. The elderly woman went on to say “she wanted to restore the country back to what the founding fathers wanted in the Constitution”.<br />
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I looked at her wondering if she was aware that the Constitution was signed in 1887 by all white men excluding everybody but them. The founding fathers she referred to lived in a time when they owned human beings as chattel and women had no rights whatsoever. Nonetheless, she was correct in that the Constitution affords us the right to free speech no matter how ridiculous it might be.<br />
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In her rage, she also said she does not want the government in her life making medical decisions for her. Hmmm – like the insurance company’s and HMO’s are doing now, if you are lucky enough to have insurance. She went on to say that “Obama wants the government to kill old people, socialize medicine, and take away our Medicare”. The lady who looked to be in her seventies and was wearing a t-shirt that said supports the troops obviously did not understand that both entities are government systems providing medical services that are socialized not to mention, I am sure, took advantage of Social Security. To be respectful, this lady was surely among the low information crowd.<br />
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Standing near her in the frame of my television screen were people carrying signs with an erratic horary of issues. The most disrespectful was a sign that had the president looking like Hitler, arguably the worst man to every live. This might just be the reason for the Nazi remarks that could very well be a codeword for N- --- (n word) much in the way they throw around words like communist or socialist when referring to our president. Let’s be clear, the real issue is the face of what America looks like; a black President, a Jewish Chief of Staff, newly appointed Latin Supreme Court Justice, a woman Speaker of the House of Representatives – faces of ultimate power that are no longer all white men.<br />
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I don’t have to go back thirty or forty years because these people are the same ones we saw last summer attending rallies held by President Obama’s campaign opponent. However, I am old enough to remember the Jim Crow era when bigotry was a way of life and segregation was the law of the land. The problem is, I think, most African Americans have forgotten what it was like to be “Colored” and in spite of wanting to forget that myself I believe we are about to have a “Columbus Experience”. By that I mean we are going to discover America that “Real America” the one that the now former Governor decried during the presidential campaign. Because the actions of these people are eerily similar to the racism of a time I’d hoped to never see again.<br />
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I am an avid history buff. I just love knowing about the past because to know it and understand it allows you a glimpse into the future. For example, I can recall somewhere around 1860 when there was a movement by many states with a perverse idea called “secession”, which occurred and the United States split into two countries. The reason, as we all know, was about money and the profits gained from the institution of Slavery. Today the issue has again been raised for the same reasons – money, profits, and race.<br />
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Recently conservatives held what they called “Tea Parties” in many cities around the nation because they believe the country is going in the wrong direction. I suppose this was to symbolize the Boston Tea Party where the colonists were planting the seed of revolt. It is the same thing that was done in 1860 - revolt. Before I go on, let me say that they seemed to forget what course the nation was on during the last eight years when terror was the main concern.<br />
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When you talk about secession and government revolt – it’s called treason and that is brought about by terror. As much as we’ve heard about terror over the last eight years this mindset/behavior rises to the level of a greater evil. Let me highlight the most inflammatory act perpetrated to date. The other day a protester showed up for a town hall meeting held by the President of the United States - ARMED. “Strapped”, yes with a gun – a side arm in plain view where the president was speaking.<br />
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At another town hall event there was a guy arrested by the Secret Service because the protester was holding a sign that said he wanted to kill President Obama and his whole family. At the same event there were several signs that said, “Death to the tyrant”. This can’t be simply about health care reform. It’s been reported that the president receives 4-5 hundred death threats a day and with America’s horrible history of assassinations we should be very concerned. Let’s not forget the decade of the 1960’s where we lost a President, a King, an X, a Senator, and several other prominent leaders to assassination.<br />
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The actions of these people and let’s not leave out the radio commentators they listen to, who want the president to fail, spew their venom creating a very dangerous environment reminiscent of the 1960’s. Surely there are a lot of mean spirited evil people in this world and evil is not usually associated with Jesus. Therefore, I think we know what Jesus would say, maybe something like - let’s turn to each other not on each other.<br />
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