Third National Pastor Declares Anti-Obama Death-Prayer

[Joanne98]

Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 06:09:35 AM PDT
SUMMARY: Tempe, Arizona Pastor Steven Anderson has gained national media notice for issuing an anti-Obama "death prayer" and because Anderson's parishioner Chris Broughton showed up, at a townhall event Barack Obama attended, carrying a semi-automatic AR15 assault rifle. But media missed the fact that it was not Anderson's first 'death to Obama' sermon and that Anderson was only one of three national pastors to have declared death-prayers against the new president

Mainstream media scrutiny has failed to notice the extent of eliminationalist anti-Obama populism on the US right. The conspiracy theories that drive right wing anti-government populism are anything but marginal - up to 1/3 of American adults are at least partially in the grip of paranoid right wing conspiracy theories such as "Birther-ism."

Ignoring the phenomenon won't check its spread, and during the 1990's such conspiratorial outlooks helped power both the militia movement and also the GOP's takeover of both houses of Congress.

Troutfishing's diary :: :: As Steven Anderson told his congregation on August 16, 2009, "you have probably never heard a sermon like this before. Actually, you probably have if you have been coming to church here for a while. But you know what? Here is my sermon, why I hate Barack Obama. That's my sermon tonight, because Barack Obama is coming to town tomorrow morning."

Pastor Anderson has gained national and international media attention for that sermon, in which he declared he is praying "imprecatory prayer" for Obama's death. Media attention has missed the fact that Anderson preached an almost identical but even more virulently hateful version of the same sermon two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated, during which Anderson appeared to veer over the line into direct incitement, declaring "somebody should abort Barack Obama."

But, Anderson is only one of three nationally recognized Christian pastors who have declared they are praying for the death of the current president of the United States.

Pastor Wiley Drake is a Former Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention who also served as Alan Keyes’ American Independent Party running mate in the 2008 election. Wiley Drake has long been linked with the violent wing of the antiabortion movement and prior to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, Drake announced he was praying for Tiller’s death. After Tiller’s murder, during a June 2, 2009 appearance on Alan Colmes’ nationally syndicated radio show, Wiley Drake declared that his prayers had been answered and then went on to inform Colmes that he was praying for president Barack Obama’s death (also see here).


A third, and perhaps even more menacing anti-Obama "death prayer pastor" is Peter Peters of the LaPorte, Colorado Church of Christ. During the 1980’s, members of the white supremacist militia group The Order attended Peters’ church and four months after Pastor Pete Peters and his parishioner Colonel Jack Mohr appeared on Jewish talk show host Alan Berg's Denver radio show, during which the radio show host confronted Peters and Mohr about their views, Berg was machine-gunned to death. Members of The Order were later convicted of the murder.


Peters went on to host an October 1992 planning meeting, with white supremacist and NeoNazi leaders, during which an organizing strategy for a national paramilitary network was hammered out. Former Aryan Nations member Floyd Cochran said of Peters, "He doesn’t espouse Hitler. He doesn’t use the swastika or Klan robes. Instead he uses the Bible and the American flag. Peters talks in a language we’re used to hearing. His hatred is masked in God."


Along with Steven Anderson, Peter Peters also gave an anti-Obama imprecatory prayer church service prior to Barack Obama’s inauguration. In Peters' January 19, 2009 sermon, broadcast over the Internet, Pete Peters concluded with a "party crashing" imprecatory prayer to call down divine destruction on Barack Obama’s inaugural celebration:


"On those false oath swearers and false oath takers bring destruction...


Melt and try with your fiery wrath those who with deceit speak lies and refuse to know you. Bring your vengeance upon them and upon them who have given oaths to Satan and false gods in their practice of divination. "


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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/3/776198/-Third-National-Pastor-Declares-Anti-Obama-Death-Prayer

I'm going to write my own death prayer...

Dear Gawd..

The heretics who call themselves Christians are committing dirty filty acts in your name. Please KILL THEM and clean the Earth.

AMEN!

[YOY]

1. Religious Attention Whores.

Seeking to bring more gullible and panicked morans into their flocks.

Since there are no repercussions that I see...

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Why has the Secret Service not arrested these men?

Anyone who even looked askance at * was perp-walked. Why not these bozos?

[peace13]

3. Church monkeys talking politics form the pulpit equals loss of tax free status.

Hit them where it hurts! This is a nightmare that will not go away. What really hurts is that for eight years we lived under surveillance and could not speak out at all for fear of retribution. These folks don't have a clew as to what we went through.

[TheMadMonk]

4. Give the fuckers the martydom they're obviously angling for.

Double the guard, and fucking excise the cancer that is radical right wing fundamentalism from the US for once and for all.