Trump picks Pastor who says Jews, Muslims Will Go to Hell - to pray at new US Embassy in Jerusalem

[DonViejo]

Source: The New Civil Rights Movement



By DAVID BADASH MAY 12, 20181:28 PM

Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, megachurch Baptist preacher from Dallas, and close Trump ally and surrogate, has been chosen by the Trump administration to lead a prayer at Monday's opening dedication celebration of the new – and highly controversial – U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The choice of Jeffress makes this highly controversial move all the more problematic, given his views on literally every other religion, including other Christian religions, Judaism, and Islam.

Link to tweet

Jeffress, who hosts both radio and TV shows that are broadcast in hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world, has a long history of delivering incendiary and bigoted remarks.

In short, Jeffress says that if you're not a Christian – and a certain type of Christian – you're going to hell, as Right Wing Watch has documented.

He has said Islam promotes pedophilia, and is "evil," "violent," and a "false" religion. Pastor Jeffress, in a now infamous 2011 interview, also said that "every other religion in the world is wrong: Islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell; Mormonism is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell, and, "Judaism, you can’t be saved being a Jew."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/05/trump-picks-pastor-who-says-jews-muslims-will-go-to-hell-to-pray-at-new-us-embassy-in-jerusalem/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, he'll fit right in, in Jerusalem!

This is typical tRump tactics: pick the very worst person for the job.

THE VERY WORST.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. It's almost as if Trump plans it that way

to get the worst possible people and put them into the most inappropriate jobs.

[kairos12]

8. It's what the deplorables want and support. 100%

[Golden Raisin]

16. Look at the cabinet ministers.

All deliberately chosen for their opposition to, open disdain for and willingness to gut and bleed out their respective departments.

[christx30]

2. This is the guy that was promoting

burnings of the Koran, just for kicks.
Pretty much par for the course for Trump. Lord knows he can't get someone normal. It's gotta be the best, the most controversial, the biggest name in whatever. Trump doesn't do humble.

[riversedge]

21. Sad to see this pastor did that. No peace in ME while Trump is at the helm.

[Odoreida]

34. With respect. Not that Trump can't make a situation worse, but ...

No peace in ME ever, as long as there is religion in the world.

[karynnj]

3. This is not being reported elsewhere

I don't know your source and hope this is made up.

[AKing]

6. According to his Twitter feed it's true

https://twitter.com/robertjeffress|

[karynnj]

9. Thanks -- I tried to find an article and did not think to check twitter

This is despicable.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

28. Direct from the scene of the crime...

Trump Faith Adviser Who Said Jews Go to Hell to Speak at Jerusalem U.S. Embassy Opening
Dallas-based Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress has called Islam ‘a heresy from the pit of hell,’ while also attacking Mormons and the ‘perversion’ of homosexuality

Link: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-faith-adviser-who-said-all-jews-go-to-hell-to-speak-at-embassy-1.6078561

.........

[karynnj]

29. Yes - saw him this morning on TV and saw Romney's tweet

He ended his words by speaking of "our Lord, Jesus".

I assume that Netanyahu and his coalition KNOW that the evangelicals that support Israel fiercely do not do it out of love of Jews or respect for Judaism. He does not care. Some in his coation have publicly spoke of these people being stronger supporters than the liberal diaspora Jews.

[world wide wally]

4. Trump does not have one spiritual or religious bone in his body

and that is WHY Evangelicals love him. He is 100% political and there no conflicting moral questions surrounding him because he has no morals.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Wonder how Bibi and the Israeli media are taking the invitation of a vicious anti-Semite to

dedicate a long sought after Jerusalem embassy relocation...which, by the way, is all turning out to be no big deal because The Rest of the World rejects all Trump does.

[karynnj]

30. His coalition has at least some who prefer them to the liberal diaspora Jews

They know exactly what these people believe, but know that they are Trump's base and that they are 100% behind the policies of both Trump and Netanyahu.

[safeinOhio]

12. He follows the Gospel According to John Galt. n/t

[sakabatou]

5. Hurk

[vlyons]

10. He is a dirty pot

In Buddhism, we have this parable of the 4 pots. 1. Right-side-up pot can receive and retain the truth. Upside-down pot cannot even receive the truth. 3. Cracked pot can receive, but not retain the truth. 4. Dirty pot corrupts the truth with its impurity.

This guy is a dirty pot, who corrupts Jesus' teachings about love, tolerance, peace, forgiveness. Just another degenerate out for an easy buck.

[Ilsa]

17. Thank you for that parable.

I've never heard it before. It's very accurate, I think, as is your application of it today.

[vlyons]

18. Similar to Jesus' parable of the seed sower

Matthew 13. Same idea about truth taking root and flourishing only if it falls in the right soil.

[Hulk]

13. The perfect choice for our KKKristian Nazis...

They are not the least bit disturbed by this choice. "Emboldened" perhaps. You see ONLY KKKristians are worthy in their god's eye. Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, non believers in their hate filled lunacy are "the chosen ones". Pretty simple line of thought there.

Nice call, don.

[Nitram]

14. Serves Netanyahu right for wooing Trump and persuading him to abrogate the Iraq treaty.

Netanyahu is very much like Trump.

[olegramps]

24. Netanyahu has one objective: Destruction of Iran.

The situation is centuries old and has resisted any mutual accommodation from the Jews, the two major war hungry Muslim sects, the Sunni and Shia, who are bitter enemies yet are united in wanting to see the destruction of Israel. Throw in the Kurds who hate all of them and you expect peace. Nope, ain't going to happen.

[Nitram]

26. That's just one of his objectives. Permanent denial of a home in the middle east for Palestinians

is another. Denial of full citizenship rights to Arabs in Israel seems to be another.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

15. How fitting. nt

[Mc Mike]

19. Another Dallas bircher repuglinazi 'christian'.

Netanyahu is doing a bang up job defending Israel.

[Vinca]

20. The script called for an "outrageous pastor" this week.

Sanity doesn't get ratings.

[Achilleaze]

22. The Dark of the Moon

The KGOP Fungelical Republicans have chosen the Dark of the Moon for their public pean to Armageddon. Fitting.

[Sunlei]

23. right wing tries to bring their wars & fears to Israel. Jewish people shouldn't stand for that shit!

already for past 10 years setting up people with "no down mortgages" for new homes... same damn housing bubble Americans suffered through. complete with segregation Jews only neighborhoods.

Please, Don't allow that shit.

[Initech]

25. Gross. This is why I can't stand the Christian Taliban.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Mitt Romney calls pastor who delivered blessing at Jerusalem embassy opening 'religious bigot'

Mitt Romney calls pastor who delivered blessing at Jerusalem embassy opening 'religious bigot'

By LOUIS NELSON 05/14/2018 06:59 AM EDT Updated 05/14/2018 09:44 AM EDT

The evangelical pastor delivering a blessing at Monday’s opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem is a “religious bigot” who is unworthy of such an honorary role, Utah Senate hopeful Mitt Romney wrote on Twitter Sunday night.

“Robert Jeffress says ‘you can’t be saved by being a Jew,’ and ‘Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell,’” Romney, who is Mormon, wrote on Twitter Sunday night. “He’s said the same about Islam. Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.”

Dallas pastor Jeffress, who leads Dallas’s First Baptist Church and is also a member of President Donald Trump’s evangelical adviser board, is well-known for sharply critical statements on faiths other than his own, including labeling the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints a “cult.”

Jeffress, on his church’s website, has also written that “Islam is a false religion” and that “if you sincerely follow the tenets of Islam, then you will end up in hell when you die.” ... The controversial pastor defended his positions on Twitter as based in deeply held faith rather than bigotry.

[riversedge]

31. Sometimes Mitt gets some things right.

[flibbitygiblets]

32. "Be Best", I guess.

[Odoreida]

33. What I really want to know is ...

Why is anybody officially opening an embassy with prayer?

Is that customary embassy opening procedure? No?

Or because it is Jerusalem?

Yes the man is a foul bigot, but that's just a detail in the much bigger establishment of religion issue.