Comments on Advance Indiana™: Obama's Church Builds Million Dollar Home For Rev. Wright

it's called prophets for profit. Same as that li...

2008-03-30T14:53:00.000-05:00

it's called prophets for profit. Same as that light of the world church with T. Bishop Benjimen Garret.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUsMxuzjLSg

I'm a lecturer (should be senior, and will be appl...

2008-03-29T21:35:00.000-05:00

I'm a lecturer (should be senior, and will be applying for the title (no raise) this summer). I am not a professor, and students who address me as such are corrected. I am, however, a Dr.

-- The guy who used to teach at Concordia.

EVIL: 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: e...

2008-03-29T20:03:00.000-05:00

EVIL: 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
–noun 6. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
7. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
8. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
9. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
10. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.
11. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence: the evils of alcohol.
12. a disease, as king's evil.
–adverb 13. in an evil manner; badly; ill: It went evil with him.
—Idiom14. the evil one, the devil; Satan...as in Anti-Christ.

Anyone who promotes racial hatred is no man of God!

Is O'Bama Anti-Christ?

The University of Chicago is merely providing cove...

2008-03-29T18:56:00.000-05:00

The University of Chicago is merely providing cover for Obama, Wilson. Lynn Sweet makes that point clear. She's been covering Obama for the Sun-Times since the beginning of his career. I put more stock in what she says than that pandering press release from UC.

Hmmm....Do I detect a new argument for the separat...

2008-03-29T18:00:00.000-05:00

Hmmm....Do I detect a new argument for the separation of church and state. Perhaps then the church issues can truly stay out of politics the way it should be. I guess this is why I still fail to see the importance of the reporting.

From a totally unimpeachable news sourcehttp://tin...

2008-03-29T17:57:00.000-05:00

From a totally unimpeachable news source
http://tinyurl.com/359qjy
comes a defense of Obama from the attacks from the Clinton Campaign and Gary Welsh...

And on the church, because it is a federally tax-e...

2008-03-29T16:34:00.001-05:00

And on the church, because it is a federally tax-exempt entity, we are all subsidizing its operations.

The point of Lynn Sweet's post was that she had re...

2008-03-29T16:34:00.000-05:00

The point of Lynn Sweet's post was that she had reported when Obama ran for the Senate that he was inflating his title. She said he was a Senior Lecturer, but he didn't think that sounded impressive enough so he changed it to law school professor. Obama didn't complain about her report then, but he is now complaining about Clinton campaign claims that he's misrepresenting his title. It might not matter to you ipopa, but it generally matters to people who've earned the academic title. He wasn't even an associate professor.

Iopapa,It would be like Mother Theresa living in a...

2008-03-29T16:15:00.000-05:00

Iopapa,

It would be like Mother Theresa living in a mansion then spending her life reaching out to the poor and disadvantaged. It's nothing more than pure hypocrisy.

Randymtx, I wasn't aware that the Carmel church wa...

2008-03-29T16:13:00.000-05:00

Randymtx, I wasn't aware that the Carmel church was the home church of one of the leading candidates for President. (Sarcasm.) If you can't figure out the difference in newsworthiness between O'Bama's close friend and minister and the situation in Carmel, there's not much hope for you.

Also...if a guy teaches students in a college, I c...

2008-03-29T16:08:00.000-05:00

Also...if a guy teaches students in a college, I call him a professor, regardless of whether he's full-time tenured faculty, part-time adjunct faculty, professor emeritus, a lecturer, or whatever. The point is that he took his time and spent it educating, and anybody who thinks this is an "embellishment" is off the boat.

I fail to see the church shadiness.Most church ope...

2008-03-29T16:05:00.000-05:00

I fail to see the church shadiness.
Most church operate like a republican democracy. They have board members selected by the congregants, and the vote on how they spend their money. If this congregation wants their pastor to have a million-dollar home after his retirement, is it any different than Americans giving $183,000 per year pensions to former presidents, in addition to staffs, mailing privileges, travel privileges, and 10 years of secret service protection? Even the least popular presidents in America (are you listening George Bush?) will get at least $50,000 a speech, and we're providing them with retirement when people can't pay their mortgages? Of course, we are. And there's nothing "shady" about it. Just because I disagree doesn't mean the expenditure is inappropriate when it's been disclosed to me. See how many people leave the church in response to this story. Answer will be: zero.

Then why not attack the problem at home, Flynn? Wh...

2008-03-29T14:58:00.000-05:00

Then why not attack the problem at home, Flynn? Why pitch a fit about some church out of state doing it? Better yet, why not speak up against the Carmel church that shunned the family of a little girl who was molested by an elder, who happened to be a relative (grandpa, I believe)?

The Carmel situation is far more newsworthy because someone was actually harmed, but sadly more people are going to be aware of some financial shadiness in a Chicago church that ultimately isn't going to ruin someone's life.

I definitely think it's newsworthy. There is some...

2008-03-29T12:28:00.000-05:00

I definitely think it's newsworthy. There is something wrong when ministers who preach about the poor, disadvantaged and minoritions turning around and getting million dollar mansions built for them using money given to them by church-goers.

Because it's my blog, and I get to decide what's n...

2008-03-29T11:36:00.000-05:00

Because it's my blog, and I get to decide what's newsworthy here.

And this is important news to you why?

2008-03-29T11:33:00.000-05:00

And this is important news to you why?