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Friday, January 16, 2009 07:23 AM

This is who Obama picks to swear him in

In Bruce Wilson's video, on April 17, 2005 Rick Warren tells 30,000 of his followers at a rally in Angel Stadium, right next to Disneyland, that he had been given a vision, a three point plan for the next 25 years:

It is the global expansion of the Kingdom of God.

It is the total mobilzation of this church.

And the third part of this dream is a radical devotion of every believer.

Warren goes on to deliver this horrifying homily:

In April 1939, In a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium those with the brown shirts formed a sign that said in in the whole stadium "Hitler we are yours." And they nearly took the world...

Warren then decribes the dedication of Lenin and Mao's followers and then in a jaw dropping moment says:

When I hear those kinds of stories, I think, what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium said, "Jesus, we are yours"? What kind of spiritual awakening would be have?

Warren then exhorts the crowd to hold up the sign by their seats that say "Whatever it takes" and concludes his speech with:

Whatever it takes

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/120233/obama,_this_is_unacceptable:_rick_warren_invokes_hitler_youth/?cID=1108983#c1108983

Friday, January 16, 2009 07:41 AM

This is who Obama picked to swear him in

In Bruce Wilson's video, on April 17, 2005 Rick Warren tells 30,000 of his followers at a rally in Angel Stadium, right next to Disneyland, that he had been given a vision, a three point plan for the next 25 years:

It is the global expansion of the Kingdom of God.

It is the total mobilzation of this church.

And the third part of this dream is a radical devotion of every believer.

Warren goes on to deliver this horrifying homily:

In April 1939, In a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium those with the brown shirts formed a sign that said in in the whole stadium "Hitler we are yours." And they nearly took the world...

Warren then decribes the dedication of Lenin and Mao's followers and then in a jaw dropping moment says:

When I hear those kinds of stories, I think, what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium said, "Jesus, we are yours"? What kind of spiritual awakening would be have?

Warren then exhorts the crowd to hold up the sign by their seats that say "Whatever it takes" and concludes his speech with:

Whatever it takes

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/120233/obama,_this_is_unacceptable:_rick_warren_invokes_hitler_youth/?cID=1108983#c1108983

Friday, January 16, 2009 07:44 AM
Original article: "Notorious"

If rappers weren't annoying us with their obnoxious so called "music"

they would be criminals, shooting people on the streets so I guess it's a step in the right direction?

Friday, January 16, 2009 07:45 AM

I think you have that backwards

Wall street owns the government.

Friday, January 16, 2009 07:47 AM

And this is who Obama picks to swear him in, a fanatical religious war monger

In Bruce Wilson's video, on April 17, 2005 Rick Warren tells 30,000 of his followers at a rally in Angel Stadium, right next to Disneyland, that he had been given a vision, a three point plan for the next 25 years:

It is the global expansion of the Kingdom of God.

It is the total mobilzation of this church.

And the third part of this dream is a radical devotion of every believer.

Warren goes on to deliver this horrifying homily:

In April 1939, In a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium those with the brown shirts formed a sign that said in in the whole stadium "Hitler we are yours." And they nearly took the world...

Warren then decribes the dedication of Lenin and Mao's followers and then in a jaw dropping moment says:

When I hear those kinds of stories, I think, what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium said, "Jesus, we are yours"? What kind of spiritual awakening would be have?

Warren then exhorts the crowd to hold up the sign by their seats that say "Whatever it takes" and concludes his speech with:

Whatever it takes

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/120233/obama,_this_is_unacceptable:_rick_warren_invokes_hitler_youth/?cID=1108983#c1108983

Saturday, January 17, 2009 08:45 AM

Thats exactly what it is

but no one seems to care.

Saturday, January 17, 2009 08:47 AM

I wish Obama was half as good as Bill Clinton

I'll take the best economy in 50 years, the lowest crime rate in 50 years, and bringing peace to Yugoslavia and Ireland any day.

Saturday, January 17, 2009 08:50 AM

from this very site on wednesday

How's this for irony: Eric McFadden, a former aide to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, was arrested Wednesday. According to the Columbus Dispatch, he's charged with "seven prostitution-related counts" including "promoting prostitution, pandering obscenities involving a minor and compelling prostitution."

Where's the irony in that, you ask? Until fall 2007, McFadden worked for Strickland as director of the state's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Columbus police are calling him the "guru" of prostitution in the city, saying he's been involved in it for six years. According to the Dispatch, he was allegedly part of a ring operated on the Web that ran a raffle for sex and led to the creation of a brothel. Police also say he posted positive reviews of a 17-year-old prostitute.

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