"We pray now, oh Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration...
And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance,” he prayed in 2009. “And as we leave this mountain top, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family.”- Lowery’s benediction at Obama’s inauguration emphasized peaceful relations between all Americans.
Obama's Inauguration Pastor: "All Whites Are Going to Hell"
The Washington Examiner reported this week that the reverend who gave Obama's inauguration prayer and who the president awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2009 said at a weekend rally in Forsyth, Georgia, that the "level of hatred and bitterness" in this election season would result in all whites going to hell. Joseph Lowery, 91, a patriarch of the civil rights movement and a co-worker with Dr. Martin Luther King, told The Monroe County Reporter that he held this same belief at the height of the civil rights movement, but eventually he decided that perhaps only "most" whites wouldn't make it into heaven. Now he's back to his original opinion.
During the rally Lowery also remarked that he "doesn't know what kind of a ni---- wouldn't vote with a black man running. ... All that he did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney."
The local mayor, John Howard, distanced himself from Lowery's comments: "The Bible doesn’t say anything about white or black to go to heaven. I have great number of black and white friends. I’ve been in the military. I make friends with everybody. I’m too old for enemies." Another local paper said Howard was considering televising the event in his city, but decided after Lowery's comments that it wasn't going to happen.
Lowery has since backed off his original comments about white men going to hell, saying they were a joke, and he also says he "doesn't remember" making the other statement.
Lowery’s benediction at Obama’s inauguration emphasized peaceful relations between all Americans.
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| The reverend who gave Obama's inauguration prayer said at a weekend rally that the "level of hatred and bitterness" in this election season would result in all whites going to hell. |
'Hell' as an invention of the church
'Hell' as an invention of the church
"So where did the teaching of "Hellfire and damnation" come from?
As the Nicene Church was establishing its official doctrines and replacing biblical Messianic Judaism with Catholicism ("Universalism"), it is a well known and easily established fact that they incorporated the teachings of many different religious systems. These early "church fathers" were attempting to establish a new and global political and religious authority in order to control every aspect of human life. Whatever their motives, the Vatican created dogma of eternal torture as a powerful stick to wield against its opponents.
To this end the Catholic Bishops incorporated the Roman Pagan teaching of Hades: A subterranean place of eternal fiery torment and damnation. Never mind that the dogma has no biblical basis, the Magisterium of the Church declared it so. The threat of eternal damnation made their subjects docile and the collection plates rang with tithes, offerings and indulgences as deceived people sought to purchase their salvation.
The imagery of the Nicene Hell is largely taken from the underworld abode of the god Hades and his part time lover Persephone.
Present day Nicene Christians vary on why people go to Hell. Some teach that the "lost" are condemned to Hell because they fail to make the one decision necessary to achieve salvation: they refuse to accept the death, burial and resurrection of Y'shua as taught by the Church. Others teach that if ones good deeds do not outweigh the negatives one goes there. Calvinists believe people have no choice in the matter at all. They say that the God of love and justice created most human being as fodder for Hell and only a few will be allowed to enter "Heaven." Catholicism is more clear: people go to Hell because they fail to accept Catholic Communion and authority. All Nicene Christians are quick to point out that Hell is not something God "does to us," it is something we do to ourselves.
This is known as blaming the victim! There is nothing just nor loving about this doctrine nor about a god that who create billions of beings solely to torture them throughout eternity. This is NOT the God of the Bible!"
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The Facts
- There is no biblical basis for this teaching.
- God can do anything and He could easily make another option for those who do not accept His gift of salvation.
- No Believers from the Abrahamic traditions living in the first century C.E. conceived of such a post-life torture.
- Many Pagans did believe in such horrors and they were viewed as savages because it.
- Not a single person in the Gospel accounts ever challenge Y'shua as to the origins of this non-Jewish teaching he allegedly taught.
- The doctrine directly challenges the Torah claims that God is Loving and Just (compare Romans 2:24).
- Many "Bible believing Christians" believe many unbiblical heresies. The near universality of the belief does not make it biblical
For more information see Rabbi Yochanan Levine's article; Hell, Gilgul Neshamot and Ibbur Neshamot: http://jewtoo.org/hell.html
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