Rick Perry's pastor pal: " 9/11 Was God's Judgment On America"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Shorter Jeffress: "God damn America!"

But he's white, so the lib'rul media will never ask Perry to denounce him and George Stephanopoulos wouldn't dream of focusing a primary debate around the topic.

Ditto for all those GOPers who cozy of to Pat Robertson and the remnant of Jerry "The US deserved 9-11" Falwell's organization

Right-wing megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress spoke at Liberty University's convocation this morning, where he told the student audience that America's complete collapse was unavoidable, thanks to Supreme Court rulings banning organized prayer and Bible study in public schools, legalizing abortion, and striking down bans of gay sex.

These rulings, Jeffress declared, have "so weakened the moral and spiritual infrastructure of our nation that our collapse is inevitable," explaining that the 9/11 terrorist attack was God's judgment upon America for the sin of abortion.

"All you have to do is look in history to see what God does with a nation that sanctions the killing of its own children," he said. "Just look at the nation of Israel ... Because they got involved in the worship of Moloch, the pagan god, and they sacrificed their children on the altar, what did God do? He raised up the godless Babylonians and Assyrians to bring judgement on his own people."

"People ask me all the time," Jeffress continued, "'Well, I just don't understand why God wouldn't protect our nation and he would allow these radical Muslims in 2001 to kill 3,000 of our citizens and why God doesn't protect us. Surely, God doesn't use pagans to bring judgment upon his own people, does he?'"

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-911-was-gods-judgment-america-abortion

[Thinkingabout]

1. If American is going to collapse because prayer is not in school, the failure lies at the

feet of ministers who neglect their jobs by doing a terrible job with worship in their churches, etc.
Don't blame the schools for failures unless they accept their failure first.

[hifiguy]

2. Oh, bullshit.

It was pretty small beer compared to the Indonesian tsunami that killed 100,000+ or the Haitian earthquake.

I suppose those were caused by skydaddy's displeasure with the Mooooslims and the black folks, right?

Ferns and fungi are smarter, I swear.

[gratuitous]

3. Well, well, well

Are any of the Clowns in the Car going to be asked about Pastor Jeffress, and his statement of God's judgment on America? Will they have to distance themselves from his comments? Or - and I deem this far more likely - will the popular media fall all over themselves providing the context of Jeffress' comments, excusing his inflammatory rhetoric, and painstakingly pointing out that Jeffress didn't really mean that God isn't protecting us, and that God is responsible for the terrorist attacks on our country.

You know, like they did for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining that he was talking about God damning America for the sin of slavery. You all remember how careful the popular media were to provide that context, right? Right? Remember?

[Scuba]

4. God punished America for letting George W. Bush steal the Presidency.

[gordianot]

5. I wish these POS would acknowledge their brethren in the Westboro Baptist Church.

Just how are they that different?

[Rex]

6. So why doesn't God punish people directly? Wouldn't that make them more obedient?

Wouldn't that make the non-believers bow down in fear and worship? Funny guy this God of the GOP.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Wouldn't it have been 'God's Judgment' on just the people in the building and their families?

Or 'God's Judgment' on George W Bush's administration? After all, if he was doing such a good clean Christian job of things, why didn't God wait until Barack Obama was in office to punish the eeebil lefties, rather than a RW admin that used Bible quotes on their sniper scopes and powerpoint presentations and went around talking about Gog and Magog?

[JaneyVee]

8. Nah, it was due to incompetence by BushCo.

[Initech]

9. Nice to see that the American Taliban hasn't lost a step.