Preaching hate slapping a bad name on Christians
By Bekah SipesSports Reporter, The VOICE
When 28 year old Chris Broughton came to one of President Obama's speeches with an AR- 15 automatic rifle strapped to his back.
He claimed that he was not there to attack or threaten the president, he was just trying to protest the speech.
The night before, Broughton had attended a sermon taught by Reverend Steven L. Jackson.
Jackson spent the whole sermon preaching on how much he hated President Obama and even God hated Obama too.
He went on to say that he was going to go home that night and pray for Obama to "die and go to hell."
Jackson later confirmed that he indeed said all those things against Obama and he doesn't regret saying any of it.
Where do these pastors and religious leaders get off from preaching hate and using their religions to brainwash mindless followers into what they want them to believe?
Everybody has heard of the preachers that took their fellow Christian believers to gay bars in order to protest gay people.
Giving society the idea that Christians are horrible people who hate others who are not exactly like them.
Preachers and other religious leaders like Jackson are giving people a really bad stereotype about Christians and how they really are.
Not all Christians are even close to having the same opinions as that idiotic man that calls himself a preacher.
Jackson preaches hate and calls his mindless followers to agree with him.
He uses his power as a religious leader to get his opinions of disgust out and to brainwash others into believing all the crap that he preaches.
Jackson is not the only one that does this.
There are many religious authorities that do this as well. People who use their religion to stand outside gay bars, abortion clinics and other places of controversy are doing the same thing, thus pushing others farther away from Christianity.
Coming from a Christian background, people like me need to use our religion to create love not hate.
We should be driven to accept people for being people; not punish them for how they choose to live their lives.
There is absolutely no excuse for clergy like Jackson to be brainwashing followers into believing that it's ok to go out into the world and look down upon others who do not live their lives the way that they believe should be the way to live.
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