Pastor Prays for President Obama’s Death on Eve of His Visit to Arizona
August 28, 2009
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/08/28/pastor-prays-for-president-obamas-death-on-eve-of-his-visit-to-arizona/#comment-76016
Pastor Steven Anderson has used his position at Faithful World Baptist Church, in Tempe, Arizona to bring just a little more hate into the world. Pastor Anderson is praying for the death of President Obama and an eternity in hell.
“Nope. I’m not gonna pray for his good. I’m going to pray that he dies and goes to hell. When I go to bed tonight, that’s what I’m going to pray. And you say, ‘Are you just saying that?’ No. When I go to bed tonight, Steven L. Anderson is going to pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell.”
This is of course not the first death-dealing prayers to be spoken by preachers in the United States, including such prayers for the death of President Obama, judges, or others.
Of course, hate appears to come naturally to the good reverend in Arizona.
“… And yet you’re going to tell me that I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things — you’re gonna tell me I’m supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he’s in Phoenix, Arizona.”
VIDEO ON WEBPAGE AND YOU TUBE:
Pastor Stephen Anderson spews bile! Gospel of Hate!
August 27, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqziLVmPHtw
YOU TUBE INFO:
Faithful Word Baptist Church
Pastor Steven L. Anderson
2707 W Southern Ave, Suite #105
Tempe, AZ 85282
Phone: (480) 248-4082
E-mail: Info@faithfulwordbaptist.org
Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church? The same fella that Christopher Broughton, the anti-Obama, anarchist AR-15-carrying activist, declared to be his pastor on conspiranut moonhowler Alex Jones’ radio show?
Well, as has been reported on Crooks and Liars and MSNBC, the day before Broughton brought his loaded assault rifle to a demonstration outside where the President was speaking in downtown Phoenix, Pastor Anderson was preaching hate for President Obama, and praying for the Chief Executive’s death.
And when I say, “preaching hate,” I don’t mean that as a figure of speech.
“God hates Barack Obama,” the preacher told his congregation. “I hate Barack Obama.”
In a rambling, hour-plus sermon that knocks “sodomites,” disses Pentecostal Christians, and offers up a birther fantasy of Obama playing baseball in Kenya as a child with a stick and a mango, Anderson talked about how Obama would be in town the next day, and that some of his parishioners might be attending, although he couldn’t personally make it due to previous plans.
For Anderson, Obama cannot be “saved,” and because Obama backs access to abortion for women, he deserves to die.
“You’re gonna tell me that I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil,” asked Anderson, rhetorically, referring to Obama, “[this] murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children, and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial birth — and all these other things — you’re gonna tell me I’m supposed to pray for god to give him a good lunch tomorrow, while he’s in Phoenix, Arizona. Nope. I’m not going to pray for his good. I’m going to pray that he dies and goes to hell. When I go to bed tonight, that’s how I’m going to pray.”
Obama’s death, in Anderson’s eyes, would be just punishment for advocating for a woman’s right to choose. Calling Obama, “one of the rulers of the darkness of this world,” and drawing upon fire and brimstone from the Old Testament, he gets wierdly graphic about what he’d like to see done to the POTUS.
“If someone’s gonna twist my arm behind my back,” he tells the sunday-go-to-meetin’ crowd, “and tell me to pray for Barack Obama — this is what I’m going to pray, because this is only prayer that applies to him: Break his teeth, oh God, in his mouth, as a snail which melteth, let him pass away, like an untimely birth of a woman — that he thinks — he calls it a woman’s right to choose, you know, he thinks it’s so wonderful, he ought to be aborted. It ought to be, `Abort Obama,’ that ought to be the motto.”
Anderson also makes clear that his message is political as well as religious:
“Obama is overturning the U.S. Constitution, overturning the Declaration of Independence, overturning everything we believe as a country, overturning 200 some years of history. He is the revolutionary. And it’s a socialist, communist revolution. We are the counter-revolutionaries, saying, `No, we don’t want change.’”
Was Christopher Broughton in the congregation that Sunday, August 16? Did he hear and absorb this message from the man he described as “my pastor” on Alex Jones’ August 20 radio show?
“Let me tell you something, I don’t love Barack Obama,” intoned the wacky pastor the day before Obama’s arrival on August 17, “I don’t respect Barack Obama. I don’t obey Barack Obama, and I’d like to see Barack Obama melt like a snail tonight. Because he needs to recompense, he needs to reap what he’s sown.
“You see, any Christian will tell you that someone who commits murder should get the death penalty…And when Barack Obama is gonna push his partial birth abortion, his salty saline solution abortion, hey, he deserves to be punished for what he’s done.”
This is the church AR-15-slinger Christopher Broughton said he “proudly” attends; “the best church in the world,” according to him.
And this is why I can’t blow off what Broughton did by bringing his loaded AR-15 outside the President’s address to the VFW. I don’t think it was just a stunt. Rather, I think it’s a disturbing harbinger of what’s to come.
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Many have called for his arrest, which would be to combine an abusive use of the law with an abuse of the church.
18 U.S.C. 871 states:
“(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
However, praying for the death of an individual is a long-accepted part of Christianity and other faiths. An “imprecatory prayer” is usually a reference to Psalm 35 where David calls upon the Lord to kill his enemies. There are a variety of imprecatory psalms containing curses or prayers for the punishment and death for one’s enemies. Psalms 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 79, 109, 137 and 139.
Such an arrest would be a deprivation of the free of speech and the free exercise of religion, in my view.
This does not mean that this not a matter of legitimate concern or investigation. It is being reported that the Christopher Broughton, the man who recently carried an AR-15 to the speech of President Obama on that trip to Arizona, is a follower of Rev. Anderson.
For the full story, click here: http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2009/08/tempe_pastor_steven_anderson_p.php
The AR-15 toting nut job at the Obama town hall is a member of Anderson’s flock:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/gun-toting-arizona-protester-belongs
