Alabama GOP Gov. Robert Bentley: If You're Not A Christian, You Need To Convert

[WillParkinson]

Alabama GOP Gov. Robert Bentley: If You're Not A Christian, You Need To Convert

Newly-elected GOP Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley made it clear yesterday that non-Christians will have a tough time under his regime.

Bentley made the remarks during a speech at Dexter Street King Memorial Baptist Church, the Montgomery church once led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., saying that non-Christians were “not my brother” and he hoped they would convert to Christianity. During the speech at the church in recognition of the King holiday Monday, Bentley told a packed audience that he is color blind to race, and then talked about his religious beliefs.

“But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have, if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister,” he said. “Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.”

The Anti-Defamation League was quick to denounce Bentley's remarks, saying he was "dangerously close" to violating the First Amendment, which forbids government from promoting an official religion.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/alabama-gop-gov-robert-bentley-if-youre.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. He is another religious Bigot as they come...

[Zephie]

2. Dangerously close? No. It WAS a violation of the first amendment

And this jackass deserves full punishment and removal from office.

[Fumesucker]

23. +1

[StopTheNeoCons]

29. +2 million

+2 million

[sellitman]

3. The big tent theory

As long as you are in his it's very big.

Asshole.

[RandomThoughts]

4. And what if someone is a Christian in heart and you don't know it.

Only God knows the heart of a person, what if they heard the word of the Lord in a different way?


You end up thinking you can judge who a Christian is by saying only some people are your brothers and sisters.

What if one of those people you don't think is a Christian, God does think is a Christian, wouldn't you be going against your brother in Christ?


Then again, maybe he is not a Christian, only God would know that.

:shrug:

Is this guy a Christian? He sings some great songs.

Listen very carefully to what he is saying is worthy in this song. If you think in terms of a label being a meaning to something, it is interesting.

Worthy is the Lamb-Michael W. Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcFTtu5kJpk


And Jesus told us that how we treat the poor and suffering is how we treat him.

[PufPuf23]

35. The new AL Gov.is out of line but hey its 2011 and Alabama.

Alabama is Alabama and I feel for the Democrats and liberals and minorities in the State.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. While it's not surprising that he privately thinks that...

...it is surprising that he would just come out and admit it in public.

Is he going to "explain" his remarks by saying he was speaking in his church and only feels this way on spiritual questions rather than on matters of public policy?

[JoePhilly]

6. He needs to convert to sanity.

[shayes51]

7. "Who does he think he is?"

That's what my mother would have said about this. Not a good sign for Alabama. Looks like we got Roy Moore after all.

[jody]

8. Obama has also pandered to Christians. How is Bentley different? n/t

[yourout]

9. Genesis has this guys number.....

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw>

[polmaven]

13. Since when has

President Obama ever come close to saying that if you are not a Chistian then you don't belong in America? That is essentially what Governor Bennett says in those remarks.

Is there anything that you won't use to try to bash the president?

[jody]

30. ROFL, have a great day. n/t

[polmaven]

31. That's what you have to say?

Very enlightening.....!

[LeftishBrit]

17. By not only 'pandering to Christians' but attacking non-Christians.

Big difference IMO.

[old mark]

10. K&R...Well, there's another place I won't consider moving to....nt

[hobbit709]

11. Another would be theocrat.

[Odin2005]

12. Kiss my Atheist ass, Bentley!

[raccoon]

14. Wow, makes me feel lucky that all our governor did was run off to Argentina. :silly: nt

[w8liftinglady]

15. If you are converting to Christianity- convert to THIS kind...

http://www.sojo.net/

[SoCalNative]

16. Fundie freaks

all need to be exposed and kicked out of office.

[RegieRocker]

18. Freedom you XXXXXXXX traitor. It's about FREEDOM!

[cascadiance]

19. no freedom of religion = HE IS ANTI-AMERICAN!

Bentley, leave the f'ing country and find your own fascist state to live in you a$$!

[RegieRocker]

20. Yea it's time to start telling it like it us about theese XXXXX!

[enuegii]

24. Why in the hell would he do that?

He's already found his fascist state--he's governor of it.

[LynneSin]

21. So when is he going to convert from being an asshole to a human being

:shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

22. Convert THIS, you fundamentalpatient bastard!

I was born FREE.

[cowcommander]

25. God Bless America

[LeftishBrit]

28. It's not easy to render me speechless, but...........

[ensho]

26. talk about religious insanity!

Alabama and Arizona - 2 states to avoid

[Dappleganger]

27. And if he was a muslin they'd be screaming Sharia Law

and stringing him up by his toes by now.

Religion has no place in government, period. The governor needs to remember that he is for all the people, not just some.

[Lucian]

32. The douche did violate the First Amendment.

How the fuck was it "dangerously close?" It was blatant.

[AsahinaKimi]

33. Sorry, I am not converting...

[Monk06]

34. Baptists are heretics. According to them babies can't be saved because they can't accept Christ

What a bunch of gobbledygook Christianity is.

Just a Greekified Pagan version of Judaism which
itself is just a form of Magic Realism.

Siddhartha's dying words to the effect that,
"That all things that come to be have an end"
or as George Harrison puts it, All things Must Pass,
contains more profundity than a stack of Bibles, Psalms
and fabulistic nonsense.

Anyone who comes back and claims my opinion re Judeo/Christian
thought is superficial go ahead. The onus is one you to
explain why what I have said is not true.