J. Grant Swank, Jr.


He and wife decided to put a new addition onto their house.


In short, the addition became his god so that he lost out in his soul. It is that easy a slip to happen.


The addition consumed them. It became such an all-encompassing project that the Lord’s Day became shopping day for floor covering, tile, and so on and so on. Lowe’s and Home Depot vied for God’s attention.


“You’re not going to keep having Wednesday evening Bible study,” he pointed adamantly to me one day.


I had never said we were dispensing with the study. But he decided that his word ruled. Of course it didn’t. However, in his head the house addition was more important than
mid-week Bible study. Over and out.


The rest of us continued to gather around the Word weekly. He was missing, House addition supplanted the Word.


The rest of us were kind enough to inquire about the addition—what colors, what tile selections, what floor plans. After all, we wanted to be happy with a friend who was a part of our house church.


However, it was obvious that the addition—wood, nails, paint—were all important in this fellow’s life. It was the beginning signs of spiritual backsliding.


How harmless a matter as an addition onto a house can rob the soul of God’s first place. But it happens all the time, in one form or another for the enemy of our souls never gives up.


Several years prior he and his first wife were sliding
backward in their commitments to the Lord. As pastor I saw it and quaked. There was nothing I could say for they would rebut every caution I would verbalize. That’s the way it is when a Christian starts losing out with God.


It was a snowy Monday morning when his wife’s automobile slid into an accident that cut through in an instant her earthly stay. She was gone. God’s mercy retrieved her soul before she lost out completely with her Lord.


I met with him through all those hours of sorrow. I was there as faithful pastor.


Then he married a second time. The marriage moved along with one happy project and then another. The house addition came to the fore and loomed higher than it should. The fellow lost sight of legitimate spiritual priorities. The rest of us believers witnessed it and wondered what would eventually happen with the man’s test of loyalty.


Sundays became a quick stay for house worship and then off for more house building supplies. Addition. Addition. House addition became his all-in-all.


But God said, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”


With the sour state of his soul, he became critical of everything that happened in worship. That’s what happens when a person begins to pull away from the glory of the Lord. Even that which is nourishing to the faithful believers becomes repulsive to the one backsliding.


One Sunday evening we had a most enriching worship in an elderly woman’s home. The music was uplifting. The testimonies were enlivening. The fellowship was rich and sincere. The Bible opened to fill our waiting spirits with new food.


However, not so with the one who had by now given his allegiance to his own selfish world.


Monday morning he phoned me to complain about everything that occurred the evening before. We sang too many hymns. The sermonic illustrations were not proper. The distance driving to the elderly woman’s home was too long. And on and on.


All I could see in my mind during his tirade was House Addition, House Addition, House Addition equals god. It was truly sad.


He ordered me how to conduct future worships. He ordered us all when we were to meet and how long and where. In short, his phone message was obnoxious—but worse. It was the final sign that he had given into the backslidden soul.


Soon after he decided to exit the house church for his own lonely abode, his second wife slipped while working on the house addition. She broke her leg in multiple locations, pins having to be inserted, two months off the use of the leg and so forth.


I have witnessed this often when persons willfully turn their backs on God. We mortals need do nothing. God then moves in to discipline those He loves, according to His Word.


To this moment, the man has never apologized for the havoc he brought to God and the innocent house church believers.


Instead, he continues his way in the void promised him by the enemy of our souls.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


I was a sophomore in a church-related New England college outside Boston. I could not go home for Thanksgiving because I just couldn’t. I was planning on being home for Christmas and being in Maryland for November vacation was too close to December’s get-away.


So I went from student to student on campus to ask for money. I had an idea. I would feed the Boston poor in Scollay Square on Thanksgiving Day. But I needed money — cash.


Fellow students gave away their money. I put it in a jar in my dorm room. And then most of my friends left for Turkey Day elsewhere. It was an eerie feeling at the college when dorms were mostly empty. But I was so excited I was beside myself.


Prior to Thanksgiving I went into Boston where they sold clerical collars. I, a Protestant, would dress as a priest. It was the only way I could be certain that I’d be safe at nighttime in Scollay Square — the dregs section of the metro. It was after all where the prostitutes stood on corners, vagrants slept in the gutters, and a downtown mission sang hymns like, “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling.”


I knew Scollay Square. I was a part of the college’s Evangelistic Association. We made our ways into the slums of Boston to sing and preach and hand out hymnals in the mission. It smelled badly in that mission house. But it was one grand place to be. Straight backed chairs. Floppy hymnals with paper backs. An old piano at the front of the room. No microphones. Hanging bald light bulbs strung from the stained ceiling. And the gospel preached with gusto, especially by students preparing for the ministry.


I can recall when I preached my first sermon. It was in the Scollay Square downtown mission. When I got back to campus, seated in chapel the next morning, I wrote the outline of my sermon on the back of an envelope I was mailing home to my parents. They would be so proud that their son was preaching, let alone at the slum mission. I was elated with that sermon outline. I wish I still had it.


So it was that preparing for Thanksgiving I went to buy my Roman collar. It worked. It fit. I weighed only 120 pounds, so I didn’t need a large collar. I had a black suit; most of the preacher-wannas had a black suit. So I was all set. I had my cash. I had my collar. I had my black suit. And I had my Thanksgiving in Boston rather than with family in Maryland. Perfect.


The day came to get onto the T — the train that went from Quincy to Boston. There I sat, looking very much like a Father. And so it was that people seated to my right and left greeted me kindly: “Hello, Father.” “Good day, Father.” I smiled and nodded in reply. I recall especially two old ladies. They were whispering to one another. I heard one say, “He seems awfully young to be a priest.” Oh, if they only
knew!


Of course, then, in 1958, Catholics swarmed all over Massachusetts, particularly Boston. Priests in garb and nuns in habits were all over the place. So for me to be one of them fit in quite readily, though truly I was a bit young to have finished one’s priestly schooling.


Presently I disembarked and walked up the dungeon steps from below ground onto Park Street and Tremont Street, the Boston Commons to my left. It was mid-afternoon. I walked down past King’s Chapel right into the heart of Sculley Square. I was home!


Sure enough, vagrants, otherwise then known as “bums,” were to right and left. I approached my first customer. “Hello, Father.” “Hello. I hope you’re having a blessed Thanksgiving Day, sir.” “Not at all.” “Then here’s some money. Take it over there to the cafeteria and get yourself a turkey dinner. God bless you.”


I handed him the cash. I had already checked out how much the meal was. It was indeed a cafeteria where you served yourself and paid the cashier when filling up your tray.


With a flash the man took my money and darted into the shadows. He had no intentions of eating a turkey dinner. Liquor was better. And he had my cash in hand.


That taught this naïve Protestant teetottler a lesson. So for the next fellow I approached about a turkey dinner, I walked with him to the cafeteria, watched him put the food on the tray and then paid the cashier myself for his food. That was that.


But before any more men had their free meals, I walked them right into King’s Chapel. The doors then were never locked. It is an historic church — stone, awesome, quiet, perfect for meditation and prayer. There each fellow along with myself knelt before the altar to pray. I prayed aloud. Then we two stood to our feet, walked to the cafeteria and the man had his turkey dinner.


Night began to fall. I still had money. I was on one grand high for Jesus. Truly. I had never felt so good in a long, long time. I thought my heart would burst.


I came upon a flophouse. I walked in. I talked with the clerk, who herself was a bit of a vagrant. Everyone was that in Scollay Square. The building was dark and dirty. For fifty cents a person could literally flop down somewhere under its roof.


I walked further down the street to be called out to by a fortuneteller. “Father, let me see your palm. I will tell your future,” she beckoned. She was seated in a storefront type of station, dressed as gypsy fortunetellers were garbed in Scollay Square. Behind her was a fancy, colorful curtain. “No thank you,” I replied. “God bless you.” Then I went on my way as she kept calling me to have my fortune told.


Presently, as I was standing under a lamppost, its light forming a perfect circle all around me, I looked up several stories high to an apartment of sorts. There was a light on and a man peering out the window. He must have caught sight of my collar and concluded he hated priests. So with that he opened the window to shout obscenities at me — clenching his fist all the while. I concluded I wasn’t going to linger there under that light.


Finally all my money was gone. I boarded the T for a return to college. All the way home I was thrilled beyond words. What a Thanksgiving Day I had had. It was delightful, fulfilling, out of this world. No one could ever believe what a grand time I had in Scollay Square.


Looking back on that day many, many times — and sharing the experience with numerous friends not only at Thanksgiving — I truly believe it was one of the most miraculous spiritual experiences I have ever been privileged to know.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka  CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That).”


So now it’s been uncovered that politics and ego have played a prime role in the so-called global warming religion.

 
Al Gore, champion charlatan, now wipes egg off his face. Fine for truth.


Telegraph.co.uk’s James Delingo provides a revealing overview.


Emails back and forth from those trumpeting the climate creeds of global heat-up have surfaced, now much to the writers’ embarrassment.


Therefore, we can conclude that not only Barack Hussein Obama is committed to lying, per his Muslim “ethic” writ in the Koran. But other dark-side game-players have taken on lying as a virtue.


Those lifting high truth are warned repeatedly that it is to be “wise as snakes and harmless as doves.”


Read the surfaced emails for yourself:


“As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be ‘the greatest in modern science’. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:


“Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.”


And now this:


Writer James Delingpole states: “One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:


“’In an odd way this is cheering news.’”


Imagine that for defending facts alone. Imagine the truth-tellers closeted while the politico-money-hungry warm religionists pound away for whatever they can gain from lying.


Now get this next email:


“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”


Read every word and uncover deceit maximum at work in this email:


“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.”


Read it again: “’Our observing system is inadequate.’”


Disciples of this warm religion collaborate to destroy damaging emails:


“Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?


“Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.


“Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.


“We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”


Then the urge to violently attack those not bowing down at the warm religion altars:


“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.”


Here is an email trying to cover up the “inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)”:


“Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to ‘contain’ the putative ‘MWP’, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back. . .”


What are the warm religionists to do with scientists who continue to expose the warmist lies? Read it:


“This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the ‘peer-reviewed literature’. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this?


“I think we have to stop considering ‘Climate Research’ as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.


“We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?


“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”


Read “Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?” at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Don’t you just love Adam?


After all, who lately has made such an adieu about cuddle this and kissing that? A pinch here, a fondle there.


Now that America is under hate crime watch, is loving Adam Lambert a hate crime? I was pondering that this evening when reading all about ABC zapping him for their “Good Morning America” bit.


The whole problem is this: So you love Adam Lambert. Does that mean that you hate God?


Adam Lambert is telecasting that he is an out-o-the-closet kind of person. And he proves it on stage by kissing an onstage male entertainer—impromptu, so who can judge him for doing what his drives tell him what to do?


More than that, he leads around stage fellow males on leashes. Now if that’s not anti-Petticoat Junction, I don’t know what is.


But the quandary is this: Adam Lambert does this kind of mix-up and gets cancelled on one major network while picked up on another. He’s got thousands of Americans phoning in to television execs complaining about his capers. He’s got interviews with reporters, whining he’s sorry if his lifestyle stuffs it in people’s faces.


Then he persists in romping around while screaming out a screech and smashing a male’s head in his crotch.


Now is loving Adam Lambert a hate crime? Because I read in the Bible that doing that kind of thing as a male to male is repulsive to biblical deity. And so if it is that basic a madness, then perhaps Adam Lambert is putting his signature to a hate crime.


I mean by that that God hates his display because it is sin.


Of course, everyone who knows a smidgen about the Bible knows that the God of the Book forgives a genuinely repentant soul. So if Adam Lambert sincerely confessed his whatevers to God, God would bestow mercy. Note: it would have to be sincere; that is, to “go and sin no more,” as Jesus told the woman caught in adultery.


However, of course, I am not at all leaning in the direction of Adam Lambert running to the confessional for at this juncture in his young life he is making a lot of money and fuss over his carnal flips. He’s got a lot of people yakking pro and con. That makes for a star slot in some individuals’ opinions.


But back to the main point: Is loving Adam Lambert a hate crime? That is, is loving Adam Lambert equal to his committing a hate crime. Maybe I should have put it that way at the outset.


In any case, it is a serious matter. For if one Adam Lambert is committing a hate crime in God’s estimation then it would behoove him to weigh his present spotlight in nastiness with what lays ahead eternally.


What say you?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


This Barack Hussein Obama Recovery.gov lies.


It is unfortunately believed by the uninformed. That is utterly abominable but once again underlines that Obama plants deceit in every corner of his oversight.


Obama lies regarding statistics on numerous Recovery.gov levels. Obama has been asked to fix the site. He refuses to fix the site. He will not attempt to fix that site.


How can this be? Can be tolerated?


The answer is that Muslims are taught to lie for it furthers Islam World Rule. Allah instructs via the Koran to outsmart the enemy. Lying then is an Islamic virtue.


To Christians, lying is a sin. Therefore, Christians in the nation expect people to tell the truth. Of course, Christians know there are liars out there. But when these liars are caught, Christians expect them to be exposed. Sometimes they are penalized or disciplined in some manner.


However, a Marxist Muslim President gets away with lying because the liberal media will not expose him. His own lying team, naturally, will not expose him. And so he twists the honest citizenry once again in the wind.


There are plenty of Dems in Congress who are not Muslims; but since their leader lies, they take on his mantle. And countless get by with it.


Hopefully in the next elections, these liars will be spanked out of Congressional halls. Of course, some more liars will no doubt take some of their places; but let’s pray that enough liars are sent into oblivion that truthful individuals sit in their seats.


Obama lied from years back. Demented Jeremiah Wright preached for twenty years to Obama.


In that cultic mentoring Obama was taught how artfully to lie. Michelle was as well. Now these two sit in the White House, screwing up our Republic.


Obama’s czars and shadow government plot through sessions to refine their lies. Then when they are caught, for instance, in Congressional question-and-answer sessions, at times the query gets the cat out of the bag.


Recovery.gov is symbolic of the prime motive spinning Obama’s lying machine. Like Wright’s cultic warehouse where hate and deceit were a membership requirement, Obama’s lying machine builds on to Wright’s creedal teachings in political environs.


Back to the bottom line regarding Recovery.com: It is laden with lies because it is overseen by a socialist Muslim who honors Islam’s warped ethic that condones lying as a moral good.


From Recovery.gov, one can extrapolate to whatever Obama considers his political mission, schemes that lie, such being a fundamental quotient. That includes his health care plan. Also his stand on abortion. That includes his (mis)management of Afghanistan as well as his projections for job increase, stimulus policy substance, international relations, basic freedoms regarding religion and speech, and so forth.


Obama plans on destroying America through the power of the lie. Of course, history reveals indeed how tremendously powerful the lie is.


The lie is the given in Obama’s religion. It is the absolute in his speeches, his dealing with other nations, and his empty promises laid on America.


In other words, Obama cannot be believed in anything he says. He cannot be believed in anything.


Recovery.gov is an in-your-face example.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Looking back on the pre-presidential election days can be quite interesting. Take this:


Filmmaker Spike Lee said that God put Barack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office. He is certain that Barack Hussein Obama will walk into the White House
because heaven ordained it to be so.


Lee says that he can feel it. It is without question. There is such certainty in Lee's conviction.


However, Lee is not known for his biblical sensitivity or theological learning. Lee is not considered a spiritual advisor of excellence.


Nevertheless, that did not stop Lee from publicly pronouncing his soul witness endorsing Barack Hussein Obama as deity's choice for America's President.


Per Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute, "Lee revealed he thought the economic difficulties that are presently plaguing the country were ordained by God to help get Barack Obama elected president."


Therefore, add to the Lee certainty that God has placed Barack Hussein Obama on Pennsylvania Avenue that God also planned the nation's financial mess. In other words, thank you, God, for two weird blessings wrapped in one package.


"Lee appeared on 'Morning Joe' and, in an interview with co-host Joe Scarborough, he made the revelation.


"'I've always believed, and it seems naive, that God had a hand in America,' Scarborough said. 'And I get a real sense you feel that God has had a real hand in this.'


"'So many things have happened – all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,' Lee replied. 'There were so many things.. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.'"


So there you have it. Lee the prophet. Lee the advisor for future events and analyzer for past happenings.
This is Lee the film designer giving forth the Holy Spirit's messages to his own spirit.


What is so odd is that Lee's testimony does not square with God's Word. And of course if Lee is speaking for the Bible's God, then what he states as divinely ordained should square with divine revelation.


However, it does not.


Lee's idol, Barack Hussein Obama, is pro-choice for womb killing mothers. This is not God sanctioned.


Obama desires homosexual activity to be permitted throughout America as a legitimate pastime. This is not God sanctioned.


Obama states that reading the Koran was a poetic, aesthetic experience for his own soul experience. This is not in line with the Bible as divine revelation in comparison to the Koran as demonically scribed.


Obama holds that all religions are one. That is not sanctioned by the Bible's God.


Obama embraces Islam as a legitimate religion, holding a long history of being pro-Muslim so that many suspect him to be a mask Muslim. That is not
God sanctioned.


Lee obviously speaks for other than God. If he sincerely means that a spirit spoke to his spirit, that spirit would have to be a satanic spirit, not the Holy Spirit.


The Holy Spirit cannot contradict His own inspired Word. The Holy Spirit cannot cancel out biblical ethics. The Holy Spirit cannot endorse an immoral agenda such as that proposed by Barack Hussein Obama.


Lee, check out your spirit. It does not appear to be in line with the Holy Spirit, therefore, your analyses are suspect, evidently.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Canon Law Regarding Catholics and Abortion:


"Canon Law 1398 Catholics who have obtained an abortion, or performed an abortion, have excommunicated themselves latae sententiae (automatically by their very action) from the Catholic Church. They remain outside the church until the reception of the sacrament of Penance through a good confession.


"Canon Law 1329 Catholics who are accomplices in enabling and permitting the crime of abortion to occur, who without their assistance the crime would not have been committed, incur the same penalty.


"Canon Law 915 (an exception to receiving Holy Communion) "Others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."


All bishops should follow their own Canon Law concerning their constituency and the abortion atrocity.


Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin sets the morally correct standard. He refused Patrick Kennedy the sacrament in Rhode Island.


Kennedy’s endorsement of child killing is abhorrent to God. It is abhorrent to the Roman Catholic ethical understanding of Scripture—the inerrant, infallible Word of God.


Kennedy favors killing womb infants. That is called “murder.” Female rights have no right to murder.


Therefore, the devil is in the process when mortals slay mortals who are in female bodies. That is not only how Tobin sees it; that is the way biblical believers understand divine revelation.


TV’s The View Whoopie Goldberg had a field day this morning when it came to her understanding of what the church does with its constituency’s views of right and wrong. With that, she went on her evangelistic diatribe about her understanding of Scripture.


She concludes that the Bible allows a human to do what he or she wants to do as long it is in keeping with that individual’s personal communication with God—no interference from churchly organizations or spiritual leaders.


On one part, she is accurate: a mortal can communicate with God and is served the consequences of that via accountability from that God.


But on the other part, she is so wrong. The God of the Bible does not have various moral codes for various persons depending on what they say they “hear” from God. God’s biblical standard is there as an eternal verity; it is not waffling to left or right, up or down.


Whoopie always has a good old time of it when trying to make deity out to be a Nice Guy on everything from communion altars to sex. In that she makes a lot of viewing friends for they likewise serve a deity who is totally into relativism, discounting absolutes.


However, Tobin is in line with the true understanding of Scripture when he holds the line on not permitting those who claim to be “Christian” yet murder to have Communion. They in no way have the ethical right to partake of the body and blood of Christ. That is atrocious in itself.


Think about it: Did Savior Christ suffer severe mistreatment on the cross in order to share His body and blood with persons who slay children? I don’t think so.


Did Christ stretch His holy presence on Calvary, permit nails to be driven through His hands and feet, then endure the spear slice in His side to allow pious appearing church goers the honor to partake of the sacrament representing that redemptive offering?  I don’t think so.


Did Christ anywhere in His public ministry ever teach that slaughtering womb innocents is okay if it is not in a person’s life plan?  I don’t think so.


Would to God that more clergy kept the same biblical standard that Tobin keeps. All spiritual leaders in the Christian tradition should obey God, His moral base and instruct those under their care to do the same.


"Sorry, you can't chalk it up to an 'imperfect humanity.' Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members,” Tobin told Kennedy.


Stay the holy course, Tobin. Stay the holy course.


FOOTNOTE:


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


He faced twenty years for being accused of a heinous crime.


I was substance abuse counselor at the jail at the time of his admittance.


“I fell to my knees. I cried out, ‘If there is a God, help me. My life is over.’” That was the agonizing prayer of the young, white felon.


“Then I opened my eyes. I stared into the corner of my cell. There was this Bible.”


When I first met Stan, he was walking down the jail corridor to his work station. In his hand he held a Bible. At first glance, I asked him, “Why are you reading that book?”


“Because it helps me,” he answered in a low-key voice.


The next day I asked him the same question. I got the same answer.


The next day I asked him once again the same question. Once again, I got the same answer.


The next time I asked him, getting the same answer, I told him I was one with him. I informed him that I am a Christian.


With that, we became conversational friends in jail.


One day we were talking about the strength the Word provides us when under pressure. He obviously was under a severe strain with twenty years in prison in front of him.


“The more I read this Book, the more the outside world recedes. Now I have read it through three times. I can honestly say that with this Book in my heart, I don’t care any more about the twenty years. If it’s twenty years behind bars, then it’s twenty years behind bars. I accept it as God’s will.”


It is amazing how the Bible can insulate a soul for sound mental and emotional health. The Word is powerful. It can redeem and cleanse. It can rejuvenate and implant hope. It can retrain thought patterns and emotional networks. It can perform miracles.


Stan was experiencing in jail all of these changes within his very person. From the first night, slamming his body against the cell floor in desperation, to this moment of confessing liberation, he had traveled quite the inner journey.


Being in ministry for nearly half a century, I could trust this man to be relating to me the whole truth. He had no reason to fabricate. If he had tried to fabricate, it would have shown itself without doubt, considering the twenty years in prison that was hanging his life.


I promised him that I would intercede for him in my own humble prayers. He thanked me sincerely.


We continued our friendship. Though I was employed in a secular position at the jail, yet there were opportunities for me to speak with Stan, even though briefly, about grooming his soul in the Holy Spirit’s presence.


I could not get over his words about the outside world receding the more he immersed himself in the Word. I thought of how many believers outside jail could come upon such release if they only took the time to do as Stan.


Our lives are so filled with nonsense and worldly lures.


We don’t know the freedom that we could experience if we only immersed ourselves in the Bible with greater discipline. Instead, we content ourselves with a five-and-dime religion of superficial spirituality. Television, MP3s, chit-chat on cell phones, trivia, movies and all the rest of our culture’s sidelines keep us away from soul depth.


Stan came upon God’s treasure house only because his crime had corralled himself inside a jail cell with a Book. That became his key to real-life freedom.


He was imprisoned in a July. By a miracle, the next February he was released. There is no human explanation. It is sheer miracle. It is nothing but the divine hand.


Years have passed.


Stan has proven over time his surrender to the Christ he met in the Book. Today he is a model believer, happily married and rearing a family, serving in his local church and witnessing to the power of God to set a prisoner free.

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Barack Hussein Obama and family sat under this cultic lecturer’s diatribes for twenty years:


The following is from a Jeremiah Wright sermon, "And God Said to Moses: I Hate Those Honkey-A-- Crackers" as posted at IMAO's website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html


Now this is outright blasphemy against Christ. Read it and call it what it is - the spirit of antiChrist:


"Now some tell me that we shouldn't be for killing the honkeys. We should just turn the other cheek. Who says this? That cracker Jesus!


"Well, answer me this: Has Jesus ever been called a [n-word]? Did anyone invent AIDS to kill Jesus?


"Well, maybe Jesus should not be lecturing the black man on what he should and should not be doing. As we speak, the government is working on plans to send all black people to Venus! That's right: NASA is going to send us to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.


"So what does Jesus have to say about that? Nothing! God bless Jesus? No. God [expletive] Jesus!


"To hell with him! Throw his cracker a-- out of here!"


The sermon begins with this opening paragraph: "When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, 'There could surely be no one as bad at those people?'


"God said to Moses, 'Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that's okay with me.'"


Jeremiah Wright is no Christian preacher. Diatribe as above is satanic. Any biblical clergyperson will vouch for that. There is no question when a biblical believer reads that kind of madness. It is satanic.


I do not believe then that Muslim B. Hussein Obama did not hear that kind of blasphemy over the two decades he sat in that sanctuary. Michelle heard it also. They both listened and took it in.


Why then did Muslim B. Hussein Obama remain there?


Because he thought, with the congregation numbering into the thousands, it would be politically advantageous to his future.


And it was. With that he became popular in Illinois which led to him making it to the US Congress.


In being politically opportunistic by joining that political plant called a "church," Muslim Obama had likewise to join hands with Nation of Islam Louis Farakkhan for the latter was within Muslim Obama's political district.


In being friends to Farrakhan and that Muslim conclave, Muslim Obama employed some of those in NOI on his Congressional and campaign staff.


Muslim Obama tolerated outright blasphemy, the misuse of the name of Jesus, the maligning of the ministry and incarnation of the Son of God.


For that, Muslim Obama will pay a dear price at the Judgment Seat of Christ. His soul is in grave danger of damnation.


Adding to his political opportunism by aligning with a mentor blasphemer and Islamic organizations, Muslim Obama also damns his soul by endorsing killing infants in wombs, sodomy, human stem cell research, and erasing the Judeo-Christian heritage from the US in favor of melding all religions into one.


All of the above is absolutely counter to God's Word.


Read more at the IMAO's website: http://www.imao.us/archives/009779.html

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


She was not ready to hoist our turkey knife-upward either. She was livid. She was after Martha Stewart. For certain.


And this wife of mine is a Martha Stewart loyal royal. She loves her show. Martha says it; it’s true. My wife even tried the recipe mimic.


But no more. When Priscilla learned that Stewart went after Sarah Palin, finis!


Sarah Palin is not God. But Palin is indeed a choice one for Priscilla.


So Stewart was asked what she thought of Palin. I saw it with my own eyes. And as far as I could tell, Stewart’s eyes drooped in a condescending fall. The lids were all but on the floor.


Stewart let it be known in that soft, cutting voice of the elite that Palin was “boring.” Palin is so boring that Stewart would not even care to walk across the street to hear one syllable from the former Alaskan Governor.


Further, Palin is not only stiff board, she’s “dangerous” for any country. Just plain dangerous. She is not good stuff, in other words.


When I told her what media was telecasting, Priscilla was a bit suspicious that I had fallen into hyperbole.


But when Priscilla heard with her own ears those
nasty terms sliding off the kitchen mistress’ tongue, Priscilla just about slid all the knives from her own cabinet onto the fighting field. Priscilla looked to me as if she were after blood.


After all, there are some moral bases that cannot be crossed without battle begun. I guessed in an instant that the garrisons were being called up and children should run for cover.


Stewart, with all her cute phrases and courteous glances toward one show guest or another was now no friend of Wifey. Stewart’s lush pad and come-back from prison cell was no bait for Priscilla’s liking.


And I can’t say I blame her. I go right along with her analysis of the Cooking Queen.


Stewart has lost with us common folk who have brains working for what is decent and logical. Stewart has tightened all the more with the crusty liberals, dittoing their mantras and bedding down with their tripe.


That’s it for Stewart.


Any questions, just ask Priscilla. She’s ready with the verbiage—out and about and up and down and left to right, no end in sight.


Further, as I see her marching up the avenue, I note quite a line of like-minded pot-banging females screaming at the pines.


See video http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/22/martha-stewart-calls-sara_n_366810.html

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Biblical ethicists defy left-of-left government intrusion if the latter prods believers to deny their values.


These stalwarts are in the line of Jesus overturning temple tables, sending merchants fleeing. Jesus defied the power structure in favor of hallowing His Father’s House of Prayer.


Christians through centuries have defied evildoers. They have stood for the God of the Bible while secularists threatened them with harm.


So it is today those adhering to scriptural morals inform a secularist-prone government to move over. These godly disciples will not bend to unbelievers’ demands. They will serve God as God.


“Because we honor justice and the common good,” it states, “we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide or euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.”


The document referred to is the Manhattan Declaration per Washington Times’ Julia Duin.


It is bolstered by evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodox leaders in particular. Moralists of all stripes agree with its mission.


Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson and Princeton University professor Roman Catholic Robert P. George spearheaded this Christian witness. Scores of others join them.


As Barack Hussein Obama, Marxist Muslim, continues to gather about him anti-Christian cohorts, particularly as czars in his shadow government, Christians do what Jesus told them to do.


Jesus instructed His grace children not to hide their lights under bushels. Jesus told His own they were the salt of the earth. Jesus Himself defended heaven’s moral base against the odds, finally being murdered for doing so.


Jesus instructed that in every age His saved ones are to be in the world but not of the world, hence Christians take their testimony into the marketplaces. For that some have been persecuted, others martyred. Nevertheless, Jesus followers boldly hold to His example worldwide.


“There are at least 224 million Christians in the United States, according to the Web site Adherents.com.


“The document, which was drafted over the summer, is being released at a time of high stress for many of the groups that signed it. The Archdiocese of Washington is under fire for saying it will not comply with a pending D.C. law that would force the Catholic Church to give health benefits or adoption services to same-sex couples.”


For biblical ethicists there is no thought of compromise, no matter how threatened. Allegiance is having none other than the God of the Word. His law comes first; defending it is paramount.


Read “Religious leaders vow civil disobedience on anti-life issues” at http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/21/religious-leaders-vow-civil-disobedience/

By J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans … have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”


That is what Barack Obama wrote in his book, “Audacity.”


Now you can be sure that when Obama is in the White House, something “ugly” will occur to offend the nation’s “Arab and Pakistani Americans”—in other words, Muslims.


So whose side will Obama then take?


He will side with the Muslims per his own public statement in his book. There is no question. It is right there.


That is not the closet Muslim which he’s been. That’s the out-in-the-open Muslim hinted about even present-tense.


“I will stand with them. . .”


That is why he stands with them in the pro-Islam sanctuary called Trinity United Church of Christ. That’s why Obama embraces Jeremiah Wright’s pro-Muslim crowning of Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan.


That’s why Obama, with his Muslim childhood schooling, endorses the mosque-cleric-like angry yelling of Wright’s pulpit delivery.


That’s why Obama states in “Audacity” that Judeo-Christian heritage will recede as an all-religions country emerges. Obviously, from his siding with Muslims, Muslims in particular will have the upper hand in the new America.


It is scary to read just that one paragraph in his book about siding with the Muslims if matters turn “ugly.”


One can be certain that Muslims reading that paragraph will see to it that some offense will strike their sensitivities once The Boy sits in the Oval Office. Their squeals will trigger their discontent thereby triggering Obama the Muslim to spring forth.


Muslim Obama has already given us warning in his book. If we are too stupid to get it, then we are going to suffer the consequences of not being informed.


Contributor's website: http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


America has always been under attack.


Communists said they’d bury us.


Remember those days when we were instructed as school children to duck under the desks if we heard the alarms? Civil Defense quarters were broadcast so we could find shelter. Some built underground bunkers in their front yards.


Then came along our own opulence. As a Christian given to frugal lifestyle, I became alarmed as America became more and more enamored with its toys. We were beleaguered by our own materialistic lusts.


Things were gods. Money was the Promised Land. And boasting of tangibles was the all-in-all creed. I pondered if we would implode because of our money success—monster homes, for example.


Add to this the “increase of sin,” as Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24. He said it would be one of the prime signs of the close of the Church Age.


Now sin abounds as that which is right. People opt for living together rather than marriage. It is posh to have that significant other. Same-sex ‘marriage’ is the legitimate right.


Sanctuaries empty. Churches close. Clergy trespass. Denominations go left with immoral doctrines.


In the Church of the Nazarene, the holiness denomination in which I was raised, website NazNet, for instance, has Moderator Hans Deventer champion a Bible that is fraught with errors. This is totally against the reliable divine revelation that was preached since the church’s start.


Deventer is joined by Moderator Scott Cundiff who believes in the same errant Scripture. Site Founder and Moderator Dave McClung does nothing to bring these two persons in line with holiness beliefs, though he states repeatedly that the site is Nazarene-friendly. It is not. It is just the opposite.


Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/


So we have had threats all along as a biblically originated nation. The thirteen colonies were composed of believers who taught Scripture to school children. Some preachers were renegades; but by and large village pastors delivered sermons regarding biblical truth as God’s Word—without question.


This is the only country on the planet that had such an origin. No other nation had settlers who carried their Bibles, kept the Lord’s Day holy, held to scriptural morality and taught judgment day accountability.


Heaven and hell were real. Jesus was Redeemer. Salvation was through conversion to Jesus. And the God of the Book was the Mighty God.


Of course there were theological liberals who opposed that biblical base; but by and large believers seeking religious freedom in the New World held to the Word’s eternal verities.


In this present age, we have as a citizenry created our own enemies in opulence, outright sinful lifestyles and a steady disregard for the Bible.


But we are still here. Why?


God has continued to show mercy because of the righteous remnant. Their prayers, added to the early colonies’ intercessory prayers, keep divine grace upon America.


It is God’s holy nature to honor is own persona. He cannot go against His caring personhood; consequently, the Republic still stands.


The newest threat to the United States is the Oval Office’s Marxist Muslim and his shadow government/czars impregnating evil government. He is out to destroy our democracy, in that sense beheading the infidels. He has long publicly witnessed that he is Muslim, though too many have never recognized that as fact.


In his left of left policies now set forth with the majority of Democrats in Congress, he is fully intent in obliterating the nation.


Nevertheless, God is still on His throne. God tops Satan.


Therefore, since Allah is Satan, the Koran was scribed by demons, and Islam is a hellish cult, God continues to defend His righteous remnant. His grace children, by simple faith, believe in that with their entire beings.


Consequently, this latest threat from a cult and its devotee, Barack Hussein Obama, will not do away with this Republic. God will level His wrath against those who would obliterate the only country planted in biblical truth.


Read “How Long will God Intervene?” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/How_Long_will_God_Intervene12456.shtml

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


So try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a federal civilian court.


Why?


Read: “Some strange ideological impulse—rather than common sense and respect for the rule of law—is driving the Obama administration to give special treatment to the perpetrator of one of the greatest war crimes ever committed against the United States” per CNSNEWS.com’s Terence P. Jeffrey.


“. . .ideological impulse. . .”


Richard Morris stated the Obama motive being an “ideological” one.


What these two men are saying when using the term “ideological” is Muslim. It is the theology of the Koran. It is what Allah would have Obama do.


Now to figure out the fine line details as to what verse or verses in the Koran are behind Obama’s thought patterns is another matter.


But suffice it to say that it his cultic underpinning that is evangelizing this preposterous, outlandish display in Manhattan. We all know by now the fleshed out voluminous reasons why this Mohammed scene should never happen.


But what is particularly significant is to try to figure out the Marxist Muslim Obama’s intent that drives such brash, public insanity.


Thinking persons know that when all is said and done in Obama’s activities to right and left, it is his allegiance to Allah that governs all.


His Protestant membership in Trinity United Church of Christ (Congregational) is a cover for his real religion.


It is Islam as he himself has stated publicly: OBAMA STATES HE IS MUSLIM at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/091107


Let the UCC fade as Islam looms largely, more so each day.


Read ISLAMIC TIMELINE FOR GLOBAL RULE http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4569807-islamic-timeline-for-global-rule

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Compare then and now. We are now reaping the rot that was sown in weeds back then:


“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’


God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. That’s Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.


“We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God,” Jeremiah Wright preached.


And this: “How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?”


I don’t believe Barack Obama saying he never sat under Jeremiah Wright’s preaching rant sermons against America. It is simply impossible to believe that considering Wright’s hatred for America and whites especially.


Obama is lying in order to become President.


When reading Wright’s sermonic sentences, Wright sounds very much like a mosque cleric.


All the more that I believe Obama to be a Muslim mask. I believe that wife Michelle likewise is a Muslim mask. I believe that they wholeheartedly agree with Wright’s anger against the USA, his hatred against whites and are covering all that up to get into the White House.


Here are some of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.


“No! No No!


“God damn America … for killing innocent people.


“God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.


“God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”


Obamas heard those sentences and many more like them. I have been a Christian preacher for nearly half a
century. I know what sermonic themes I have accented over the years. Wright had his accents as well. They are dittoed for a congregation that in fact was brainwashed cultic style. Obamas were a part of that.


Here are more of Wright’s Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.


“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”


In my preaching files, I was preaching my understanding of the Bible. Wright does the same. But he twists the Bible toward blackism. In that, his congregation was fed unreasonable, anti-American tirades in the guise of biblical preaching.


Obamas were a part of the listeners’ intake. They sat in the pews. They did not walk out when Wright was raving mad. The congregation frequently stands to its feet, claps in favor of Wright, and chimes in with Amens and such enthusiastic support.


Obamas would have been party to that over twenty years. Here are more Muslim-like sermonic sentences:


“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”


Then turning to Barack Obama as potential US President, Wright said the following:


“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.


During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the
Romans.


“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said.


“Hillary would never know that.


“Hillary ain’t never been called a n-----. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”


Wright preached against “the white value system.” Obamas heard that over and over again. It’s part of sermons and literature and Bible studies. Obamas could not have missed it.


Wright had more to say about Hillary. And this was couched in a so-called Christian sermon from a Christian pulpit from the Trinity United Church of Christ—one of the most liberal denominations in the world.


“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”


And more:


“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well.


“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”


Racism is in Wright’s blood. It has been transferred to his loyal congregation. It had to be relayed likewise to Obamas or they would have left that church ages ago. Instead, they stayed. They stayed because they believed what Wright was preaching. It was the cultic clutch on hundreds in the pews.


“America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . .


“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers.


“We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi.


“We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”


White supremacy. Black inferiority. Those were two of the most believed political creeds held to by that congregation. And it was because Wright molded the church’s thinking agianst whites and into blackism.


Obamas had to get in on all of this. Obama lies when he says that all of these beliefs of Wright are now foreign to his understanding. That is simply impossible to believe.


Obama lies to further his campaign. Lies are permitted Muslims as trophies to Allah. I believe that Obama lies, holding that as a Muslim he has that right.


“We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means.”


The end for Muslims that justifies the means is Islam World Rule. I believe that Obama is in league with Islam World Rule and sleeper cells throughout the USA. There is too much evidence over twenty years’ listening to Wright to not think that real.


“We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .”


America started AIDS.


America is to be held accountable for worldwide poverty.


That’s vintage Wright sermonic content. It is a pity that a congregation was so brainwashed over years. Wright has molded them into the Muslim mold.


Obama says he never heard those kinds of words from Wright. That is a lie. It has to be a lie. Wright did not change his sermonic content from Sunday to Sunday.


Instead, he built his large congregation by such hateful “messages” and created an anger-based following, more a political center than a church. It certainly was not a Christian church.


In another sermon, Reverend Wright suggested that the song “God Bless America” should be substituted with “God Damn America.”


He has also suggested that we deserved what we got on 9/11.


More from Wright:


“That’s right: NASA is going to send the black man to Venus where it is inhospitable to life and we will all die.”


And still more from the Muslim-like preacher:


“When Moses finally escaped the Egyptians, he turned to God and asked, ‘There could surely be no one as bad at those people?’ God said to Moses, ‘Yes there are. Beware the honkeys. Beware the crackers. Especially beware the Jews. I hate all those people. Frankly, if you blow up their buildings, that’s okay with me.’


God hates the Jews. Wright said it. That is bold, orthodox Muslim preaching. So blow up Jews’ buildings. Muslim Muslim Muslim written all over it.


“How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology?


“Children born to parents who are of two different races do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it in America, especially if the momma was white and the daddy was black. A child born to that union is an unfortunate statistic in a racially polarized society,” he said.


“But, if you use your mind, instead of a lost statistic in a hate-filled universe, you just may end up a law student at Harvard University. In fact, if you use your mind, you might end up as the editor of the Harvard Law Review. If you use your mind, instead of [being] a statistic destined for the poor house, you just may end up a statesman destined for the … Yes, we can!” Wright said, using the popular Obama slogan to bring the crowd to its feet in cheers.


Rev. Otis Moss will follow the recently retired Wright. Moss said that the congregation was fortunate to have had a pastor who accented politics and not a prosperity gospel.


“While other ministers and ministries have allowed the winds of the current culture and market to reshape the gospel into formulaic catchphrases and false hopes of financial success, Dr. Wright, you have etched out a unique homiletic of recovery and redemption,” Moss said.