diabolical manipulation of Christian rhetoric

[The Blue Flower]

Is Bush the Antichrist?

"But few have preached harder against the Christian right's wrongs than the Rev. Rich Lang of Seattle's Trinity United Methodist Church in Ballard. "This administration is a culture of death, and so is the religious right," says Lang. In his Open Letter to George Bush, published in Real Change, Lang thunders, "You claim Christ but act like Caesar. There is blood all over your hands with the promise of even more blood to come. You sit atop the nations like the Biblical Whore of Babylon openly fornicating with the military men of might." His sermon "George Bush and the Rise of Christian Fascism" (posted like Luther's theses on the church Web site, www.tumseattle.org) rails that "the power and seduction of this administration emerges from its diabolical manipulation of Christian rhetoric . . . the mirror opposite of what Jesus embodied. It is, indeed, the materialization of the spirit of Antichrist: a perversion of Christian faith and practice."

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0449/041208_news_antichrist.php

Seattleites: You can hear Rich speak Sunday mornings at 10:30. Corner of 65th NW and 23d.

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1. a recent thread here ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2803811

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2. If I lived in Seattle, I might even consider going to hear Rev. Lang!

And I'm a non-believer!!

[yellowdogintexas]

4. think I will ask if he can come be a guest at our UMC!!

I think my sr minister and he would get along just fine!!


funny, three of the largest United Methodist Churches are in Texas, and two of them are here in Metroplex: First Dallas and First FW.

all three are consistently among the most liberal congregations in the state.

I always thought of Texas as a bastion of Baptists, never thought I would find all the really BIG UMC churches down here. Where good liberals flock to worship, I guess. **


(**along with The United Church of Christ congregations, Unitarian Universalists, and a few independents.)

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