{"id":4214,"date":"2009-07-14T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2013-04-21T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T19:17:12","slug":"baptist-pastor-prays-for-death-of-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/video-of-the-day\/07\/14\/baptist-pastor-prays-for-death-of-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist Pastor Prays For The Death of President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUHS5u8v1Ck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California, has been asking his followers to pray for Barack Obama&#8217;s death and was given the chance to discuss this with Alan Colmes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colmes: &#8230;you then said, I asked for whom else are you praying in that fashion and you said President Obama. Are you praying for his death?<\/p>\n<p>Drake: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Colmes: So you&#8217;re praying for the death of the president of the United States?<\/p>\n<p>Drake: Yes. Are you concerned that by saying that you might find yourself on some secret service call or FBI most wanted list. Do you think it&#8217;s appropriate to say something like that or even pray for something like that?<\/p>\n<p>Drake: I think it&#8217;s appropriate to pray for the will of God. I&#8217;m not saying anything, what I&#8217;m doing is repeating what God is saying, if that puts me on somebodies list then I&#8217;ll just have to be on their list.<\/p>\n<p>Colmes: You would like for the president of the United States to die?<\/p>\n<p>Drake: If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around I am asking God to enforce in imprecatory prayers throughout the scripture that would cause him death, that&#8217;s correct. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> [<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/pastor-drake-prays-obamas-death-im-not\">Transcript via C&#038;L<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>You read that right &#8212; you see, he&#8217;s not PRAYING for Obama to die, he&#8217;s just repeating what God told him! So it&#8217;s like a game of telephone with a make believe outer-space deity, a crazy person, and the crazy persons disciplies! <strong>I&#8217;m not saying anything, what I&#8217;m doing is repeating what God is saying<\/strong>! And strangely enough, given the chance to backtrack on his statements, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=4126&#038;Itemid=53\">refused and managed (if possible) to sound nuttier than before<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Imprecatory prayer is agreeing with God, and if people don&#8217;t like that, they need to talk to God,&#8221; Drake told syndicated talk-show host Alan Colmes. &#8220;God said it, I didn&#8217;t. I was just agreeing with God.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing Jesus taught, it&#8217;s that God wants his followers to openly call for the death of people because they disagree on political issues. That, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godhatesshrimp.com\/\">don&#8217;t eat shrimp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/sugarfreak.typepad.com\/mobtownshank\/2009\/07\/godwatch-when-christians-pray-for-the-death-of-a-president.html\">When Christians Pray For The Death Of A President<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bossip.com\/131041\/pastor-drake-prays-for-president-obama-to-die\/\">Pastor Drake Prays for President Obama to Die???<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/redtory.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/14\/wpitw-pastor-wiley-s-drake\/\">WPITW: Pastor Wiley S. Drake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.lohudblogs.com\/2009\/06\/25\/strike-him-down-lord\/\">\u2018Strike him down, Lord\u2026\u2019<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicvillage.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/rev-wiley-drake-prays-for-obamas-death.html\">Rev. Wiley Drake Prays for Obama&#8217;s Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California, has been asking his followers to pray for Barack Obama&#8217;s death and was given the chance to discuss this with Alan Colmes: Colmes: &#8230;you then said, I asked for whom else are you praying in that fashion and you said President Obama. 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