Jack Van Impe Full Assault on Obama Religious Right Versus Reality
Why Jack? Why are you using the pulpit to launch a full scale attack on President Obama? Why did you and Rexella produce a DVD to turn your Christian audience against its president? Does your ministry need the money that much? Have you not made enough money already from your multitude of book and DVD sales so that you don’t have to engage in character assassination?
You have stepped over the line on this one Jack. As you pointed out on your recent show Obama has told us he is a Christian (and we know this to be true since he was a member of Jeremiah Wright’s congregation in Chicago) but he disregards or disagrees with parts of scripture and according to you is on record as saying there are many ways to heaven which implies by- passing the Cross.
From your standpoint this is blasphemy and therefore allows you to proclaim he is not a Christian. I can’t argue against your theological basis for saying this, but if a man believes in Christ, but questions some of the writings in the gospels, he may be mistaken in questioning what you believe to be the inspired word of god inscribed by His disciples on earth, but you could have just said that rather than proclaim Obama is not a Christian and condemn Obama to hell.
You may not know it Jack, but being a Christian is not a requirement for being president. The president’s religious beliefs don’t even matter in the secular world of managing this industrial superpower of ours. The Constitution does not except non-Christians from the office of the presidency. So why do you make such a big deal out of the purity of Obama’s Christianity?
I know why. It’s because he’s not like you. He doesn’t think like you, he doesn’t look like you, he doesn’t come where you come from and he’s not a zealot. And so you and your ilk reject him as your political leader. What foolishness.
This is a country founded on the principal of tolerance yet you remain passionately intolerant. You may have memorized the bible but even and I, no scholar to be sure, know that what you are doing is wrong. Your shtick doesn’t play well outside of the coven of zealots that have ordained you a preacher.
You preach insanity and then recite bible versus to validate the righteousness of your foolishness. Any twisted mind could do the same thing. You can accumulate a pile of scripture to build an argument but when you step back and see that you’ve come up with a stupid answer then that’s a good indication that your premise is wrong. That’s what happened here Jack. You need to step back and realize you’re mistaken. I shouldn’t need to do it for you.
The problem I have with your Obama condemnation is that it turns citizen against citizen and creates ill will among people unnecessarily. There’s religion and there is the need for Americans to work together to deal with everyday’s problems and the major issues that challenge the country. The latter requires setting aside differences in order to get things done.
You should have known better in this time of distress that hindering the political process by branding the president as illegitimate could immobilize the country’s ability to work together toward the goal of mitigating the human suffering caused by this great recession. You instead chose to profit from it. Shame on you Jack! Shame on you.
