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Amazing. I wonder if these people just write whatever fantasies they invent in their heads, or if they’re clueless and actually believe the bile they spew.

Zachary Roth writes for Columbia Journalism Review with the headline: “Rod Parsley’s Free Pass
Jeremiah Wright gets torched, while McCain’s “spiritual adviser” offends with impunity”. Now, maybe he didn’t write the headline- that sort of thing happens all the time in print, no idea what the situation is here though.

No matter- whoever wrote the headline was dishonest. Notice it says McCain’s “spiritual adviser”, yet if you read the article, you will only see “spiritual adviser” used once- it’s the term that OBAMA used in regards to his relationship with his racist, anti-American Rev Wright. NOWHERE else in the article does the term “spiritual adviser” exist. So, whoever wrote the headline is either 1) blind or 2) a dishonest fool.

The point of the article is to claim that McCain has been given a pass on his relationship with Rod Parsley, a pastor of a megachurch in Ohio. One major problem though- McCain is not a member of Parsley’s church and has never met the man until 3 weeks ago. He called Parsley a “spritiual guide” to many people, but never claimed he was a guide to McCain himself in any manner. Obama, remember, chose the church and attended for over 20 years under Wright…Wright baptised his children and married Barack and Michelle. He sat in the pews week after week listening to a man whose core values are racist, hateful, and anti-American.

This is a lame-brained attempt at equating McCain meeting a man for 20 mins and Barack being spiritual guided by a man for 20 years. Yes, this argument is just plain stupid and doesn’t even come close to matching reality.

In the aricle, he says:

Parsley has his own history of controversial statements. As David Corn reported this week for Mother Jones, Parsley has called for Christians to wage war against the “false religion” of Islam, in order to destroy it. He does not distinguish between Islamic extremists and ordinary Muslims. “What some call ‘extremists’ are instead mainstream believers who are drawing from the well at the very heart of Islam,” he has written.

And it’s not just Muslims he’s got it in for. Last year, Parsley’s organization called for people who commit adultery to be prosecuted, and in January he compared Planned Parenthood to the Nazis.

This itself is just odd. I’m really not even sure why he’s trying to paint McCain is some sort of extremist based on these two items. They’re, in all truthfulness, not all that radical for most Americans, and surely not for most conservative Christians (which Parsley is).

1) Most Christians believe that islam is a false religion. ANYTHING outside of Christianity is a false religion (thus, an evil practice). This isn’t extremism, this is Jesus Christ himself speaking. It’s the most important commandment in the OT- to have no other Gods before the true God. God, in the OT and NT destroys people for worshipping false Gods and makes it clear that he will not tolerate such practices in general. How is this extremist?? Parsley wants to destroy islam? islam was founded by a mass murderer- I’m sorry, but let’s stop using kid gloves when we speak of the religion. It would be the goal of most conservative Christians to wage a mental battle against false religions. That’s what the Bible teaches!

2) Parsley compared Planned Parenthood to the nazis. And? This is common thought among many conservatives. How many people did the nazis kill? How many babies have Planned Parenthood killed? Do the math folks, the nazis have lower figures. Isn’t that enough for an equivocation, if you believe that an aborted baby is a life taken? I’m not sure how that’s so radical or extreme.

Seems like a lot of grasping at straws to try to make McCain look bad and make Obama look not so far out there. No matter, the headline/article combination is dishonest overall, and even if this preacher was a nutcase, there’s no comparison. 20 mins and 20 years- apples and oranges.