Polticis, religion and church

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Aslowhiteguy

Discussion Starter · Mar 20, 2008

does the pastor/priest/rev/rabi of your church preach politics? i've been listening to talk radio on & off today. they've been playin clips of sermons in different churches from different parts of the country, all relating to obama. some of the words spoken on the pulpit had to be beeped out on radio. 
the day my pastor starts preaching polticis in a way that is an attempt to influcence my vote, is the day i find another church. and i have to admit i was mildly shocked that clergy members use verbiage on the pulpit that has to be censored on talk radio.

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GaRebelRunner

· #6 · Mar 20, 2008

Southern Baptist, Catholic and most churches do in fact preach politics from the pulpit, even if they masquerade it a little better than some churches. Sermons against homosexuality, abortion, woman's place in relation to their husband, Sunday alcohol sales, lottery, gambling and a host of other political issues are often worked into sermons. 
Conservative Churches in Georgia often pass out flyers on how to vote and for which candidates. 
Obama's pastor is far from being outside the norm when preaching to his flock on things that are important to them. 
Why doesn't Sean Hannity put on some of the white preachers in the South during the Jim Crow era who preached against racial equality from their pulpit? The only big difference I see between white and black churches today is that for political expediency white churches rarely will bring up race publically although they will all whisper about it. Black churches will learn as their white counter parts have to say what pundits such as Sean Hannity and the good white folks want to hear while learning to whisper.

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GaRebelRunner

· #8 · Mar 20, 2008

Put a gay civil rights question on your State's Constitution for voter approval. It seemed to me every church in Georgia held sermons the weekend before we voted on gay marriage. I see churches of all faiths, including liberal one advocating various political stances mixed in with religion all the time. I listen to Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Hagee sometimes on Sunday's. There is no shortage of political discourse although I dare say the majority of attendees would deny any politics was talked about in their sermon. 
And I'm not condemning one church any more than the other. But I find politics keeps many parishoners inline with their church's preaching/teaching.

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GaRebelRunner

· #12 · Mar 20, 2008

Was there not a concerted effort by some of the members of the Catholic Church to opposed Kerry in the 2004 election over some of his beliefs? And he isn't the only politician I seem to remember being preached against by the late Cardinal O'Connor. 
And certain Southern Baptist Churches won't let former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter darken their doors. 
I've been a Southern Baptist all my life and it wasn't until 1976 or so when the conservatives seized the Church that politics became an integral part of most SBC Churches and we were instructed we must believe in certain dogma's. Let a local politican come out in favor of something the Church doesn't like politically (alcohol sales, gambling) and leaders at mega churches such as Rehoboath in Tucker and/or First Atlanta will beat their doors down to denounce the politican by name and indirectly influence their members how to vote in the election even though they will all swear the minister was just giving guidance about an issue of the day. The line between politics and religion from the pulpit gets very blurry. 
I miss my child hood church without all the politics.

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