Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:9577$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> Gee Ed, is this idiot a "false Christian" also?

 EH>> What on earth are you talking about?

 RS> You've already judged idividuals and groups like the Westboro Bpatist
 RS> church as "false Christians."

Westboro are full of hate. There is no room for hate in the heart of a true
Christian.

 RS>>> Last week, we mentioned a few times that Americans United for
 EH>>   Separation RS> of Church and State and the Military Religious
 EH>>   Freedom Foundation had RS> called upon the United States Chief of
 EH>>   Naval Operations to investigate RS> the fact that Gordon
 EH>>   Klingenschmitt has been "attempting to create the RS> false
 EH>>   impression that he is still an active-duty member of the U.S. RS>
 EH>>   armed forces."

 RS>>> Klingenschmit quickly added a disclaimer to his website,
 EH>>   explaining that RS> his views "do not represent the
views of the
 EH>>   U.S. Navy" and that the RS> picture of Klingenschmitt
in uniform "is
 EH>>   a picture of his former self, RS> taken while he was serving on
 EH>>   active duty, therefore he was not RS> impersonating an
officer," but
 EH>>   was none-too-pleased with AU and MRFF, RS> saying that
both "Barry
 EH>>   Lynn and Mikey Weinstein are bone-heads."

 RS>>> But apparently insulting them was not enough for Klingenschmitt,
 EH>>   because RS> AU reports that he is now calling on his supporters to
 EH>>   launch RS> "imprecatory" prayers against both men:

 RS>>> "Almighty God, today we pray imprecatory prayers from Psalm 109
 EH>>   against RS> the enemies of religious liberty, including Barry Lynn
 EH>>   and Mikey RS> Weinstein, who recently issued a press release
 EH>>   attacking me personally," RS> prays Klingenschmitt on
his Web site.
 EH>>   "God, do not remain silent, for RS> wicked men
surround me and tell
 EH>>   lies about me. We bless them, but they RS> curse us. Therefore, find
 EH>>   them guilty, not me. Let their days be few, RS> and replace them
 EH>>   with godly people. Plunder their fields and seize their RS> assets.
 EH>>   Cut off their descendants. And remember their sins. In Jesus' RS>
 EH>>   name. Amen."

 RS>>> This is actually the second time that AU has been the target of
 RS>>> imprecatory prayers from some fringe Religious Right figure, as
 EH>>   Wiley RS> Drake issued a similar call back in 2007 after they
 EH>>   contacted the IRS RS> when Drake endorsed Mike Huckabee using church
 EH>>   letterhead.

 RS>>> http://tinyurl.com/d2t33p

 EH>> The guy sounds rather self-centered. No real Christian would pray for
 EH>> God to destroy those he (the Christian) has trouble with. That isn't

 RS> Yes, a surplus of ego, and desire for $$$ from the suckers.

You cut of the reference to Christ's teachings WRT the Lord's Prayer.
Apparently it proved you silly notion wrong.

Here, let me repost it.


"And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those [who] trespass
against us."


Ed

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