World's Most Popular Evangelist Endorses Obama

[Hope And Change]

World's Most Popular Evangelist Dr. K.A. Paul Endorses Barack Obama For President

Wed Oct 22, 11:16 am ET

To: RELIGION EDITORS

Contact: Timothy Deep, Executive Assistant of Global Peace Initiative, [phone]

HOUSTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. K.A. Paul, the man the New Republic magazine called the world's most popular Christian evangelist, today endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President of the U.S. Paul, born in India, is an American permanent resident living in Houston.

Dr. Paul, a long time spiritual advisor to many Republicans leaders and the world of big business, said there were three main reasons for his endorsement of Democrat Senator Obama.

"Number one, speaking from an evangelical perspective, the current administration, I believe, has delayed the second coming of Jesus. Since the Iraq war, missionaries have been forced out of many countries, their work unfinished. As it says in Matthew 24:14, "the gospel will be preached in the whole world." The Bush administration's Iraq war policy has been in direct contradiction to Matthew.

"Secondly, as I travel around the globe, it is apparent that America's image is at historic lows. Senator Obama can change this trend and help restore our country to where we are once again respected around the world.

"And my third reason is that four more years of Bush-like economics, which I believe Senator McCain represents, will turn our current crisis into a full blown economic disaster. Senator Obama can restore confidence and vibrancy to our economy."


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20081022/pl_usnw/world_s_most_popular_evangelist_dr__k_a__paul_endorses_barack_obama_for_president

[Eric J in MN]

1. If he's the "world's most popular Christian evangelist"

...then how come I never heard of him before?

[thunder rising]

5. Us?

[Tinksrival]

29. Who Me?

[FrenchieCat]

32. Dr. K.A. Paul gets around. This is good for Obama with the evangelical community!

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[Hope And Change]

6. Well, you always learn something new every day, no?

[damntexdem]

13. Well, why not?

OK, so I never heard of him, either.

[Montauk6]

21. I'M HIP!

This ranks up there with "... Sonny Tufts...???"

[Why Syzygy]

2. Why does it matter

if we are respected if we're just sitting around waiting for the second coming?

[damntexdem]

18. What does it matter if we have a full-blown economic disaster?

Aren't all the moneychangers going to be evicted from the temple, anyway?

[Why Syzygy]

36. And I would THINK

that any respect for Americans would be soooo unimportant if there's New Earth and all, you know.
Just seems like strange priorities.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. well, at lesat he doesn't come down in the "Obama's the anti-Christ" camp. (Or

if he does, he's keeping it to himself.)

[Bucky]

4. This is another Powell type endorsement. Welcome to bandwagon, you minor charlatan!

He's not the worst telethumper on the airwaves, but he's no Billy Graham, either.

[Eric J in MN]

8. Have you seen him on TV or heard him on the radio? NT

NT

[Bucky]

14. He's a local here, I've seen him interviewed, but not preaching.

Like most televangoes, he hides all his financial records and lives pretty lavishly. He's not entirely crooked or slimy like some tv preachers, but I wouldn't let my grandma watch his show within reach of a telephone and her credit cards.

[SoxFan]

7. THIS IS HUGH!

And here I was, thinking it was...

[HughMoran]

27. His name is Dr Paul I believe

:rofl:

[RagAss]

9. Any relation to Billy Paul?

"Me and Mrs. Jones, we got a thing goin on..."

Sorry, couldn't resist !

[damntexdem]

10. "The Bush administration's Iraq war policy has been in direct contradiction to Matthew." LOL!

And worried about a "full blown economic disaster"! Well, I guess if one figures that the Second Coming has been delayed, they'd better worry about economics a while longer. But still ............

[beyurslf]

11. When i saw the title of the post, I had to ask myself is Billy Graham was still alive.

And then I find out some no-name guy I never heard of the world's most popular preacher. Seems weird.

[damntexdem]

20. But I think Billy is still alive, too.

But it's Franklin Graham who's demeaning the family name now -- I mean doing the preaching now.

[AlCzervik]

12. is he big with US Evangelicals? I will admit i have never heard of this guy or if i have

i don't remember him.

[Bucky]

17. Naw, he's big in Asia, just is HQd in Houston. Very small niche domestic market.

[AlCzervik]

19. just like mom eh Bucky?

:toast: :hi: :loveya:

[RinaX]

15. I've...never heard of him

But hey, every vote counts...:)

[Scooter24]

16. The only person I could think of when I saw the title was this-

[msongs]

22. Bush CONTROLS Jesus??? boy that's giving bush a lot of credit for a fairy tale lol nt

[Bucky]

28. Well if Palin can "control" the Senate and McCain can...

"control" his tongue and facial muscles... sure, why not Bush controlling Jesus? Everyone cracks under torture eventually.

[1corona4u]

23. Never heard of him.

Seriously. Never have.

[AlCzervik]

25. that's ok, you can sit over with the rest of us that have never heard of him either.

i thought i was up to snuff on all the big guns but somehow this dude escaped me.

[amber_86]

24. Hey

Let me tell you, this is huge!Okay if you are not a christain it might not be,but it is huge for Barack.So you should be glad in that endorsment more than Powell.

[Cha]

26. I like his reasoning for #s

two and three.

[mr poe]

30. I don't care about the endorsement, but...

Forwarding this story on to my religious fundie Repub family members who've sent me "Obama is the Anti-Christ" emails. :D

[Cha]

35. I care about the endorsement 'cause it means

wicked votes! And, yes..the "anti-Christers" can put a sock in it.

Welcome to DU mr poe:party:

[Blue Diadem]

31. Not sure what to think of that. Here's a lengthy article about him from 2006.

I'd never heard of the guy and had to google.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-06-15/news/on-a-wing-and-a-prayer/1

[Essene]

33. id live to see a lot more big name evangelicals step up and support obama

especially rick warren.

[foo_bar]

34. once you think in terms of delaying the second coming of Christ, your material concerns are suspect

I mean render unto Caesar or something, even St. Augustine recognized the need for division of the sacred and profane:

On the other hand the influence of Augustine on the growth of International Law is certain. That he laid down principles which might prove fruitful, if they were needed, cannot be denied. The conception of a world of equal States living in harmony and exchanging mutual services we owe to his mind, expressed in the passage about a world consisting of small States <...> the general conceptions which are to be found in the ' De Civitate Dei,' <"(of) the City of God"> of the mitigation of warfare through Christianity, of the sense of a common bond between nations, the insistence upon justice, the bitter condemnation of a policy of mere conquest--all these were among the many influences that helped to keep alive some flickering brands of Christendom, implying something better than the 'law of the beasts.' <...>

Reuter is right when he says that we cannot arrive at Augustine's political views--they never amount to a theory--from reading or studying the 'De Civitate Dei' by itself.<8> We must study the treatises written against the Donatists; also his letters and sermons and some of the minor works. Now it was the Donatists, not the Catholics, who adhered to the old Christian attitude of the days of persecution--that typified by the Apocalypse, in which is pictured a death struggle between the Imperial power and the Christian Church.<9> Yet in the Apocalypse we note that it is the Emperor as an object of worship that is condemned--never the idea of State authority. Much of S. Augustine's energies were occupied in combating the Donatists. Rather reluctantly he came to the conclusion that it was right to employ against them the forces of the civil government. He had thought differently in the days of his controversy with the Manichæans. Now that this policy won success, he gave rather reluctantly his adhesion to the views of his episcopal colleagues. Was it likely that, writing just after this, Augustine should turn round and condemn the State and all its works? It was the Donatists who claimed entire freedom from civil obligations. They were, in modern phrase, 'absolutists.' To them the State is an institution so profane as to be practically diabolical. That was the cry which Augustine had to meet. We can see how he met it in his reply to Petilian (II. 92). Petilian asks, 'What have you to do with kings who have never shown anything but envy to Christianity?' Augustine replies at length. The most important passage is in c. 210. In this he says that kings must serve God as kings:--for no man as a private individual could command that idols should be taken from the earth.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/pasa/chap03.htm (John Neville Figgis, 1921)