Hey, pastor, where’s Romans 8?

The pastor of the Arizona man who brought multiple weapons to a town hall there prayed for the death of President Obama at a church service before then.

Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to “pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell.”

I believe Romans 8 says:

Submit unto the governing authorities, for they have been ordained by God.

And Paul was writing that while under the rule of Nero Ceasar, not the democratically elected President Barack Obama.

And, no, he didn't follow that with a paragraph about praying for Nero's death while still "submitting."

Now, are all conservative evangelicals like this? Or even all fundamentalists? No. But is Anderson a lone wolf, an outlier? I highly doubt it.

So, people on the Talking Points Memo thread who claim people are fleeing churches like this are... well, wrong! Many people, especially in down economic times, flock to absolutist messages.
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