Hellfire and brimstone!
Ya gotta love it!
Its been a long time. They didn't appreciate my giggles.Have you ever been to one of these church's, where the preacher or reverend rants and raves?
When I was a small child, my granny attended one of those ';high energy'; churches...lol, and the preacher never did anything but holler, jump and wipe his mouth while repeating over and over,....';amen';
It was comical!
Thank God for the truth, that sets one free.
And I am glad that I found it!
Yeah, I went on vacation once with my friend and we stayed with her sister and we went to her church with her...Wow, they were singing and praying and getting really into it and I was just sitting there like...wow, this is awkward considering that I'm atheist.
Yeah. I remember going to one where the preacher kept talking about gays...';Back in the day, gays were ashamed because they KNEW they should be ashamed! But now, they're GLAD they're gay! They tell our children it's OKAY to be GAY! They actively recruit our children to be homosexuals!'; etc. etc.
last time i went to church the priest kept talking and talking so i fell asleep...i had a good nap and i learned the back of a pew is not a good head rest...
No. That was never my sort of church, when I was a churchgoer. If I'd ever stumbled into a service like that I would have slipped out as if I were going to the ladies room and never returned.
Churches who allow their pastors to politic from the pulpit can and should lose their tax-free status. Separation of Church and State applies to the Church too and for good reason!
Yes, I went with a friend to a Pentecostal church and the preacher yelled his way through the entire sermon.
Ohh yeah.
Those are fun.
I'm glad, though, that my regular church isn't like that at all. It would get very old, VERY quickly.
I don't care for ranting and raving churches but some Christians like them. As I age I don't care about the ranting so much as what they are ranting about. Obamas former church and those who attend are a shame.
Guess what... when someone becomes a presidential candidate... everyone rants and raves...
no thank goodness. that's not a church. that's a political forum!
i did. i couldnt stand it. so i switched churches. not all churches are like that church.
yes. and it reminded me of a psychiatric hospital or a circus.....
No.
Yes.....I'm listening to one online now
Oh yes, you mean the church that Obama left many years ago.
Hey, I attended an Assembly of God church and the pastor was a real nut job. Spouting lies about presidential candidates and supporting bigotry was on every Sunday's agenda. He had a very low IQ.
Hey, are you that pastor?
What has Obama done that scares the fundies so much?
Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend.
-After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
-His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent.
-Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.
And...
-Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.
-As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan.
-He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world.
-Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting...
And...
- In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.
-Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.
-Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.
And...
-Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.
-Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts.
-Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the ';gold standard'; for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists' bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.
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