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McCain’s pastor problem: “Catholicism is a Whore”, “Katrina was God’s wrath on gays”, “USA should destroy Islam”-Why is the press that gave so many news cycles to Obama’s pastor now Ignoring McCain’s Rod Parsley’s bigotry?

Across the board, both “Rev” Parsley and “Rev” Hagee are bigots. Their statements on Hurricans, Catholics, Jews, Gays, and Muslims are beyond the pale of American tolerance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeBsdSGZx4&feature=related

Senator John McCain and his pastor, Rod Parsley. America will not put up with this nonsense. Senator McCain has to own up to the bigotry of Pastor Rod Parsley and reject his theology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFnumjco-Y&feature=related

Black theology was criticized. What about Rod Parsley’s bigotry? There are between 10 and 16 million Muslims in the USA. Some are in key states.

McCain’s Geert Wilders:-When will Senator McCain repudiate  Pastor Rod Parsely’s  an anthology of bigotry and hate titled “Silent No More”? Why is the media throwing softballs to Senator McCain’s “Straight Talk Express”?

McCain’s pastor problem: John Hagee is a mirror image of the other extremsits at the other end of the spectrum-Bin Laden and company.

Parsley: Time to “Confront” Islam

Ohio televangelist Rod Parsley warned his television audience today that unless Islam is “confronted,” there will be “terrible consequences in this city, in this nation, in the free world.” Said Parsley:

Listen — we have a great president, but I’m not sure about his theology. You see, I will lift up my voice (as I do in the book Silent No More) against the very idea that the God of Christianity and the God of Islam are the same being. They are not the same being, and when the God of Christianity is presented to a Muslim world, their hearts turn to him. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/08/parsley_time_to.html

“USA must destroy Islam” John Hagee. Imagine if he had called “Judaism as a false religion” or that “Blacks had false prophets”. Imagine if he had said that Jesus followers should be annhilated?

MCCain’s Pastor says that the USA was created to destroy Islam and this should be its prime objective. McCain despite repeated efforts has refused to condmen the Pastor. The obsequious increasinlgy Murdockized media is not making this as big an issue as Obama’s pastor. The media excoriated Mr. Obama for weeks on end, while ignoring the horrendous remarks of Paston John Huggee which disparaged Islam and Prophet Muhammad

You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual “sins.”Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a “false religion.” In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zASVwKZglAM&feature=related

Watch this appalling video or “Rev” Rod Parsley. 

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38133-mccain-s-spiritual-guide-wants-america-to-destroy-islam

John McCain actively sought and received Parsley’s endorsement in the presidential race. McCain has called Parsley “a spiritual guide,” and he hasn’t said whether he shares Parsley’s vicious anti-Islam views. That’s because the mainstream media refuses to ask. And so, we’ve taken matters into our own hands, joining Mother Jones to present the truth about McCain’s pastor:

Watch the Parsley video: http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/24325184/38133?utm_source=rgemail

Since the media won’t question McCain about his deeply bigoted pastor, it’s up to the alternative media to call attention to this issue.  McCain’s pastor problem is a major story. Digg it! Why is the mdia letting McCain get away with aligning himself with a religious leader who’s called for an all-out war on Islam, someone who draws no distinctions between Muslims and violent Islamic extremists. According to some The Muslim vote is curicial for tipping some states. Michigan, Los Angeles, Newy York are some of the areas with huge Muslim populations. The Muslim vote voted en block. 

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Parsley is also a dominionist. This too, grows out of the Word-Faith error. Dominionism teaches that powerful anointed men will bring in all the benefits (healings and miracles) of the millennium, creating a Utopia to which Christ will return. Somehow they will reverse the consequences of the Fall and totally subdue disease and the hard circumstances of life.

This teaching is also identified as “Manifest Sons of God” doctrine. It confuses glorification by intermingling it into the sanctification process. One cannot take glorification and arbitrarily impose it on the sanctification process. It is a grave and fundamental error that produces chaos. Sanctification is growth while glorification is completion or perfection, which comes in resurrection and the eternal state (Romans 8). Parsley no longer wants “a mansion over the hilltop,” he wants it here and now.

Parsley derives the dominion teaching not from Scripture but from a “prophecy” of the late evangelist-healer Tommy Hicks (1909-1973). Hicks held mass meetings in Argentina in the mid-1950s and was a friend of Juan Peron.²⁵What should be alarming to any Christian is that Hicks seemed to be open to occultic phenomenon.

Hicks’ so-called prophecy²⁶ referred to by Parsley is wild imaginings of science fiction. He claims to have seen in a vision on July 25, 1961, that a great anointed miracle army was then about to burst on the scene, healing multitudes and invulnerable to bullets and death. This unstoppable army would be miraculously transported from place to place. Hicks must have known about the occult phenomenon called astral projection.

Will man ever be invulnerable to death? According to 1 Corinthians 15, death will not be finally destroyed until Jesus comes. Here, almost 40 years later, Hicks’ imminent army has not shown up.

In the May 28, 1999, installment of his daily program (filmed in a replica of the Upper Room in Jerusalem, Israel), Parsley predicted a new “wave” coming that would empty out hospitals and anoint seemingly ordinary believers. The new wave or as it is sometime called, “the new thing,” has been touted for over 50 years (over a decade longer than Parsley has been living) and goes back to the heretical Latter Rain Movement of the late 1940s,²⁷ which, by the way, was condemned by the Assemblies of God until recently.

On the program, Parsley appealed to the Hicks “prophecy” and added the twist that we are not to look to the Book of Acts, but to a far greater, future day of miracles. Parsley’s claim is that there is an end-time Church coming greater than the Church of the Apostles, which will routinely heal the sick and raise the dead.

Telling people to turn away from the Bible, the Book of Acts and the former Apostles and Prophets and to believe men’s “prophecies” as Parsley does, is a major slide to error and deception. After all, if it is not in the Bible, how do we know it’s true? End-time restorationism is a chimera and a myth.

Occult researcher Kurt Koch names Tommy Hicks as dealing in “psychic shock effects” and found that his claimed healings did not last.²⁸ Though Koch was open to the possibility of miraculous healing, he was convinced that men such as Hicks did not measure up and moved more in the realm of the psychic and suggestive.²⁹

Dominionism, with its new breed of prophets, is a convoluted postmillennial scheme that makes man the Messiah and focal point. Historically, postmillennialism taught that the universal spread of the Gospel along with Christian preaching and teaching would be the moral dynamic of bringing in the kingdom.³⁰Historical postmillennialism is Word-centered and Gospel-centered, not man-centered. Dominionism is prideful and humanistic, centering on self-appointed “super prophets and super apostles” who bring in the Kingdom. It totally confuses Christ and the Church.

Albert James Dager, of the apologetic ministry Media Spotlight, says Dominion teaching is predicated on three basic beliefs:

“1) Satan usurped man’s dominion over the earth through the temptation of Adam and Eve; 2) The Church is God’s instrument to take dominion back from Satan; 3) Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth’s governmental and social institutions.”³¹

Michael Moriarty further explains Dominionism and Parsley’s connection:

“In any event, the new charismatics continue to stress the need for the church to exercise dominion over society. Power-packed conferences like Dominion ‘90 (July 29-Aug. 3, 1990), hosted by Pastor Rod Parsley and World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio, serve to raise the consciousness of the church to the responsibility to take dominion over society. Some charismatics claim that ‘God told them’ that Jesus will return in our generation ‘if’ the church becomes more responsible in its dominion pursuit.”³²

Since it will take the power and the mighty coming of Jesus to establish the Kingdom, dominionism is a figment of man’s imagination though a lucrative one. It’s a tired old hat that is preached ad infinitumby the likes of other Pentecostal superstars as well, including Benny Hinn, Kenneth Hagin and Rodney Howard-Browne. The “day of creative miracles” or “the day of dominion” is always just on the horizon, but it never seems to arrive. It is, in part, the bait which keeps the devotees of these Charismatic leaders perpetually nipping at their hooks.³³

So many of the “healers” have died of major illnesses (and the living ones have sicknesses) that their teachings are a joke to those who know better. A genuine and thorough reading of the Book of Revelation leaves no doubt that it is the “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” who will bring in the perfect and final Kingdom (Revelation 19:11-20:5). Man cannot miraculously recreate the earth and bring in heaven. http://www.pfo.org/parsley.htm

Parsley is identified as a prominent player in the dominionist movement by both TheocracyWatch ^[5] and commentator Bill Moyers ^[6]

Some have also criticised Parsley for his recent book, Silent No More, because of the book’s explanation of Islam and the view that the U.S. Constitution provides for a separation of church and state (among other popular social issues), and for his support of faith healing. Parsley has identified Islam as an enemy of the United States and Christianity.^[7]

In January 2006, a group of 31 Columbus, Ohio, area pastors charged that Parsley and another central Ohio religious leader had violated federal tax laws. The complaining clergy alleged, but never proved, that Parsley violated the tax-exempt status of his church by supporting various political causes. ^[8][9]

Author Chris Hedges’ 2006 book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America notes the openly militaristic metaphors Parsley has used, particularly in describing his opponents:

The secular media never likes it when I say this, so let me say it twice. Man your battle stations! Ready your weapons! They say this rhetoric is so inciting. I came to incite a riot. … Man your battle stations. Ready your weapons. Lock and load–for the thirty, forty liberal pastors who filed against our ministry with the Internal Revenue Service. … Let the struggle begin. Let it begin in your heart today with a shout unto him who has called us to war–not only that, he has empowered you and I to win. —Rod Parsley^{[10] Wikipedia source}

References

1. ^ Frances Fitzgerald. “Holy Toledo: Ohio’s gubernatorial race tests the power of the Christian right“, The New Yorker, July 31, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-01. 
2. ^ YouTube – Rod Parsley: More on “Black Genocide”
3. ^ Alan Johnson and James Nash. “Huckabee, McCain keep rivalry in motion“, The Columbus Dispatch, February 27, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-24. 
4. ^ Christians United for Israel: Directors. Christians United for Israel. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
5. ^ “The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: Ohio’s Patriot Pastors”, TheocracyWatch, Last updated: September 2005; URL accessed May 24, 2006.
6. ^ 9/11 And The Sport of GodBill Moyers September, 2005. TheocracyWatch, URL accessed May 24, 2006.
7. ^ http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html
8. ^ The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
9. ^ The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
10. ^ Chris Hedges’ American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, [1]

• Rod Parsley’s official website
• Rod Parsley at the Internet Movie Database
• New Yorker article on Parsley and the Religious Right in Ohio
• Rod Parsley’s ProCon.org Biography
• With God on His Side, American Prospect, November 2005
• Raging Prophet

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