frightening

Here is a story that should strike fear in the heart of all freedom-loving Americans.  Garrison Keillor, of Lake Woebegone fame, had this to say at a speech given at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel:

“I’m trying to organize support for a constitutional amendment to deny voting rights to born-again Christians,” Keillor smirked. “I feel if your citizenship is in Heaven—like a born again Christian’s is—you should give up your citizenship. Sorry, but this is my new cause.”

Think it can't happen in the USA? The crowd laughed and cheered for Keillor. I imagine there was a lot of laughing and cheering for hate-filled speeches made in Nazi Germany, too, during the 1930's.

My heart aches, to see this kind of hate.

-rlh-

Comments

[Cindy Swanson]

Frightening and sickening! I've never listened to Keillor, but I know a lot of "born-again Christians" who have enjoyed his show. I never realized he was so anti-Christian. Wow.

[Pam]

This IS frightening and stupefying...until I remember who the enemy really is and Greater is He who is in US. We can never relax our spiritual warfare prayers in this world, and sounds like we need to begin surrounding him (and those who would actually laugh at that statement) in prayer that God would thwart all their puny efforts to degrade and bring them to Himself...

[kdip]

That is a scary speech. Another scary one I heard last week was a liberal columnist expressing the wish that the Rapture would occur so that the nation could be rid of Christians. I am not scared for me, but for them. They don't know what they are asking for because of their blinded eyes.

[Katy Raymond]

Robin--Thanks for this. I was aware this election season of a number of Christians who were advocating not voting for the very reason Keillor suggests--that we as Christians aren't really citizens of this world anyway, that our kingdom is not of this earth, so why vote? My understanding is that Keillor grew up in a Brethren tradition, and I believe a number of them do not vote.

I have actually seen him on stage in Kansas City, about one week after 9/11. He had the audience sing patriotic songs, arms entwined, and then he led us in singing "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You." It was inspirational, I must say. The entire audience was weeping as we stood in solidarity with each other, all of us still grieving over what had happened.

Hopefully, he was just kidding to suggest we all lose our right to vote. And hopefully Christians won't abdicate this right willingly! There's always, always just too much at stake.

(By the way, I arrived here via both Cindy Swanson's and Lisa Samson's sites...)