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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 12:56 PM Apr 2013

Pastor to Rabbi, Imam: U.S. Is a 'Christian Nation' -- But We 'Let' You Worship

A Pentecostal bishop on Sunday told a rabbi and an imam that the U.S. was a "Christian nation" that was bridging religious divisions because Christians would "let" other faiths worship and "we're not going to persecute you."

Speaking to a interfaith panel on CBS News, Hope Christian Church Pastor Harry R. Jackson responded to Rabbi David Wolpe, who said that the Americans should "celebrate difference" because "God is greater than any religious tradition."

"In deference to the Christian foundation of this nation, it is that foundation that allows us freedom," Jackson explained. "I don't see this diversity in other places. So to the credit of our Christian foundation of this nation, this freedom we're experiencing is because folks came and said, 'We believe this is to be a Christian nation. We feel like we've been persecuted in the places we came from, and we're going to intentionally let this nation be founded in a way that if you come here and you're Islamic and you come here and you're Jewish, we're not going to persecute you.'"

"Although we don't worship as Jewish people, we're going to let this country be guided in a place where there's going to be liberty and freedom or worship. I feel we'd be remiss if we act like some other set of countries has operated in this way."



video & more:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/pastor-rabbi-imam-us-christian-nation-we-let

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Pastor to Rabbi, Imam: U.S. Is a 'Christian Nation' -- But We 'Let' You Worship (Original Post) kpete Apr 2013 OP
Hope Christian Church Pastor Harry R. Jackson is a fucking moron... SidDithers Apr 2013 #1
I don't think guys like this get much sex. grantcart Apr 2013 #3
Some of these Sky Pilots truly haven't a clue nt riqster Apr 2013 #2
Read the Treaty of Tripoli Gothmog Apr 2013 #4
Another dumbass who knows absolutely nothing about the founding of this country. Initech Apr 2013 #5
Sheesh. Matariki Apr 2013 #6

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
3. I don't think guys like this get much sex.
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 01:24 PM
Apr 2013


He sounds like a guy that's been backed up for a decade.


He is a moron however.

Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
4. Read the Treaty of Tripoli
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 01:25 PM
Apr 2013

The United States was not founded as a christian nation. The poor idiot is clueless as to the history of our nation

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
6. Sheesh.
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 02:02 PM
Apr 2013

someone post a link to this in that 'I'm a white christian male and not privileged as such' thread.

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