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Obama’s Progressive Pastor Offers Church as Sanctuary to Occupy Protesters

Pastor Jim Wallis Offers Sanctuary to Occupy Protesters

“It’s time to invite the Occupy Movement to church,” or at least according to pastor Jim Wallis it is. You might recall Wallis — a member of President Barack Obama’s faith council and founder of Sojourners ministry. He is also reportedly a spiritual adviser to Obama.

Now, Wallis is also opening the doors to his parish, offering sanctuary to Occupy protesters, while at the same time encouraging other churches across the country to do the same.  According to KleinOnline, Wallis suggested that Thanksgiving is the “perfect occasion” for churches to reach out and offer Occupiers shelter.

Wallis used his church’s magazine as a platform to call for a “church sanctuary for the Occupy movement.” KO adds:

Wallis was appointed in February 2009 to the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a White House group replete with advocates for using religion to advance “social justice.”

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“Open our church basements and parish halls as safe places to sleep — shelter and sanctuary as cold weather descends upon many of our cities,” he wrote.

“The Occupy movement needs a sanctuary. And what better safe and welcome place could these young people find than with communities of faith?”

Given reports of Occupiers defecating and urinating both in and on churches across the globe — even using the carpet of St. Paul’s Cathedral as a “latrine” — would the Occupiers really take kindly to being given shelter in houses of worship? Or would the move instead provide vandals easy access to the structures they seek to defile?

(h/t: WeaselZippers)

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  • asmurff
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:49pm

    Obama goes to church? Who is his imam?

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    • db321
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:59pm

      Yea, but the big question should be – would this Pastor let Jesus in his Church?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Wickedness will call Jesus evil just as it did 2000 years ago. And the really interesting thing is that eventually when Jesus comes again after Gog and Magog are gone, that Christ’s name will not be Jesus, but a new name.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:07pm

      They are dancing with the Devil. That church is not a holy place.

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    • truckinwife
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:08pm

      This is no pastor more like a pretend pastor if any…. No respecting pastor would let this rabble into their church. But then again, at this time an honest pastor is few and far between, as we have given ourselves over to the feel good gospel.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:11pm

      The three people in the picture will not be laughing and clapping when they stand before God.

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    • someonewhocares
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:11pm

      Who would let them in?

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • NWWADD
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:26pm

      Believe and be saved
      Sojourners ministry Said,
      Believe and be saved
      and rise from HELL.

      The preacher retired
      to his spacious new home,
      In his humble Mercedes
      with everything chrome.

      He sat in his study,
      his thoughts running deep,
      He dozed for a moment,
      and died in his sleep.

      He ran to Saint Peter
      and wearing a grin,
      Said “I believe in the Savior,
      so please let me in”

      “Oh no, not another”,
      said Peter with a sigh,
      the tolls running high.”

      Believing is nothing,
      if nothing is done.
      In getting to Heaven
      you follow the Son.

      To follow a leader,
      you do what is said,
      Faith without works
      is nothing but dead.

      Satan knows Jesus,
      believes in him too.
      So what’s the difference
      between Satan and You?

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    • Jay Belles
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:29pm

      These types of heresies have been around a long time; Cathars, etc. terrorized Europe from the 1100s to the 1600s or so.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:53pm

      I find this absolutely amazing…. He is offering a place for people WITH homes
      a place to be so they can WILLINGLY STAND IN THE COLD. Where is his
      humanity when it comes to the REAL HOMELESS????

      I will be helping FEED THE HOMELESS AND THE ELDERLY and I am sure
      some of you are also. While this MAN OF THE DEVIL IS FURNISHING THE
      COMMUNIST OCCUPIERS A PLACE TO STAY??? DEFIES LOGIC

      I would tell them to go to Chicago. There is a very nice large empty home there
      they can stay in. We all are paying for it’s owner to be in Hawaii now and LORD
      ONLY KNOWS WHERE WE WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR HIM AND MOOCHELL
      TO GO NEXT…..

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:59pm

      If people want to see how this entire movement of merging seemingly disassociated entities together happened. This is a slightly older article, but it will give you the basis to begin understanding how and why they link arms.

      http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:49pm

      Maybe these occupiers will poop on the floor like they did a Police car. These people show NO respect not only for people trying to work, business, EMS, Fire or the Police.

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    • thegrassroots
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:53pm

      Well of course he’s supporting the endeavors of the Community-Riot-Organizer-In-Chief! Sheeeeesh!

      If the dum liberal media would shut off their cameras and just not show up, BHO’s flea-baggers would all crawl back under their rocks.

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:16pm

      Now that’s a creepy picture.

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    • wellhangingchad
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:29pm

      He may regret letting them in after they dedicate on his altar and trash the place.

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:36pm

      The pastor has evil written all over his face. Can anyone else see it

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    • PastorRob83
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:08pm

      I am amazed at the behavior and the comments of some here. Many of us may disapprove or intensely disapprove of President Obama’s positions and policies, but he IS a professing Christian, not a follower of Islam. I would think by now the snide comments based on false rumor mongering would have stopped and that people could certainly offer more intelligent criticism.

      I also would challenge the notion that The Rev. Jim Wallis is a “progressive pastor” in the sense that of us who are in the ministry would define. Theologically, Rev. Wallis is in the “evangelical” movement and he graduated from a respected conservative, evangelical seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. This seminary, unlike where I attended (and disliked immensely), is not known as a baton of liberal thought. Wallis, himself, is a “progressive evangelical” in the sense that he shares and affirms faith that most of us identify as “Biblically based evangelical”. It is his interpretation of how Christ calls Christians to live that evangelical faith that inspires Pastor Wallis to support “progressive” social causes and “progressive” social action. While he gets a great deal of support on the “religious left” for his support of Christian social activism, his personal faith is much more aligned with principles held by “American evangelicals” than by many religious leaders on the “religious left”.

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    • 100 Million Patriots Standing
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:28pm

      “Wallis suggested that Thanksgiving is the “perfect occasion” for churches to reach out and offer Occupiers shelter.”

      Why would Marxist celebrate Thanksgiving?

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:16am

      May Odumba, his current “pastor” and his previous “pastor” soon burn in hell. These people are not American they are global communists who have no concern about the individual.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:02am

      @PASTOR ROB
      I am amazed at the behavior and the comments of some here.
      ———–
      We, in turn, are NOT amazed at your lack of cogent reasoning:

      ==> While he gets a great deal of support on the “religious left” for his support of Christian social activism, his personal faith is much more aligned with principles held by “American evangelicals” than by many religious leaders on the “religious left”.

      Huh? Let me try to decipher this. The left loves him because the guy believes in “Christian social activism,” but, deep down, he really believes like any “American evangelical” — so the left should hate him and we should love him, right?

      Who are you, a non-American, non-evangelical pastor?

      Social and economic justice. *That’s* Wallis’ thing, and it has nothing to do with Jesus or his followers.

      http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-advisor-jim-wallis-explores-wealth-marxism-social-justice/

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:45am

      Gee, there must be all kinds of ways of funneling money to them through the church….

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:12am

      @ PastorRob83
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:08pm
      ——————————————————————————————–
      Rob? Rob Bell, is that you. You speak nonsense Rob. While Wallis did in fact attend Trinity, he was also a member of the radical hate group, SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), which was and is a Marxist organization embedded in public higher education.

      Wallis has been a Marxist every day of his worthless life. He, like his filth ridden god, Dorothy Day, can, and will rot in the Lake of Fire.

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    • neocon1
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:02am

      DB

      NO
      he was KICKED out a looong time ago.
      we already have a OWS regime occupying the white painted house, why not this “church” as well?

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:37am

      My prayer is “I hope he does and I hope they never leave”.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:52am

      .
      If you go to that church, be careful where you step.

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:42am

      Spiritually, metaphorically and now literally…. YOUR CHURCH STINKS!

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    • Clara88
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:00am

      We are currently a lawless nation.

      P e t i t i o n…to indict Eric Holder
      http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=347605

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Yo Pastor Rob:
      If this “pastor” opens his door with the intent of helping those less fortunate and in need of a meal and a shower, and preaches Chirst … then he follows the example OF CHRIST…. if he does other……..

      As far as Obama…. you don’t get into paradise by using a SELF sticking name tag that says… HELLO… I’m a Christian.

      Nothing he says or does inclines me to see fruit on the tree. I judge his actions and his words,,, NOT his heart.
      I have no doubt that God has “allowed” him to be president for the purposes of the LORD, and yes much of that is directed at His people because or OUR hard heartedness.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Just for Pastor Rob, declaring that Wallis’ position was not progressive (techno marxism).

      —-”During his time at theological college, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving “social justice.” In 1971 Wallis founded the People’s Christian Coalition in Chicago as a network of “PROGRESSIVE” Christians.—-”

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    • OneCitizenOfTheRepublic
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:17pm

      The evil of those so-called ministers who dispense “Cheap Grace”…Read “Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
      “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil:
      God will not hold us guiltless.
      Not to speak is to speak.
      Not to act is to act.”
      Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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    • TXVET48
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:27pm

      The 12th Imam.

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    • PastorRob83
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:53pm

      @ Kryptonite,
      You ask if I am a “non-American, non-evengelical” pastor. No. I’m an American pastor, former Professor, member of the media and former Republican politician. While I share many views in common with many who identify as “evangelical” — for example the divinity of Christ, the need for a personal relationship with Jesus as Lord and Personal Savior, etc., I am not a biblical Literalist (biblical fundamentalist) in that I use modern Biblical scholarship in my teaching, writing and study. Many of my original seminary professors had studied directly under Rudolf Bultmann so I was trained in the use of “form criticism”, “literary criticism” and “historical criticism” in Biblical exegesis. My studies in the Hebrew Scriptures were under professors influenced by the work of Julius Wellhausen, the German scholar of the Hebrew Scriptures.

      My own faith is much more akin to many of the “evangelical” conclusions than these professors and I do affirm that the Bible is true but not necessarily historical in all passages and contexts. This puts me outside of the “American evangelical” understanding even if my conclusions about the message and meaning are fairly close to what an identified “American evangelical” might affirm.

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    • PastorRob83
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:54pm

      @ The10thAmendment:

      I am NOT Rob Bell…whoever he is.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:18pm

      @ PastorRob83
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:54pm

      @ The10thAmendment:

      I am NOT Rob Bell…whoever he is.
      ——————————————————————————————————–
      You claim to be a Pastor who shares many views with Evangelicals, and you don’t know who Rob Bell is? I think you’re hedging, if not outright deflecting.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:18pm

      The occupiers keep harassing kids going to school and even church sanctuary won’t be able to protect them.

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    • 1389AD
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:17pm

      @wellhangingchad,

      I think you meant “defecate” on the altar, not “dedicate.”

      And yes, they certainly would defile the place.

      It‘s a pastor’s responsibility to make sure that sacred places and objects are treated with respect.

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    • triumph4
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:42pm

      this sounds politically correct.

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    • Methodist_Pastor_Serving_Christ
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:59pm

      That sir is a low blow and slanderous! Your president was raised by white, Christian parents and as an adult professed his faith as a Christian publicly and openly. Those “experts” who made the rounds on American right-wing radio to “present evidence” showing that your President was secretly a Muslim (and often promote their books or speaking tours) have been discredited.

      Simply because you dislike a person (even a politician, such as your President) does not mean that the person isn’t a Christian with a personally saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:37pm

      Yo Pastor serving Christ:
      In the event that you are addressing me…. you do not say…. I personally never said that Obama was NOT a christian in his heart before the Lord… not my call.
      I do believe you have some of your “facts” wrong.
      I also do not believe everything I hear. What I believe is from his own actions and words.
      No, I do not like him, No, I do not hate him. Yes, I pray for him.
      Careful that you do not judge, because IF you were addressing me you are in correct.

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    • jc4poor
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 6:32pm

      Not everyone who is involved in occupy wall street is a socialist or commie. That is pure propaganda. The far right wing is just is becoming just as corrupt as the communists you are told to fear every day. Is that why are so many of you so hateful toward Obama and Wallis? How do you know what is in their hearts? The Bible says the Christians may be decieved. “Even the elect.“ Also their would be a ”strong delusion..” Do you just get your information from people like Beck who are working for the corporate cult? The people he works for are not Christian they are brainwashing Christians. The multinational corporations are destroying America in front of our eyes and they have you all believeing the communists are doing it. Wow what a great scam so many of you are falling for. I am neither commie nor for the corporate cult. The Republican leadership has become a corporate cult. They speak of God and Christ, but their real gods are money and power. Quit drinking that kool-aid, I mean Tea party tea..

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    • jaswalt
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:02am

      @Pastorrob… Yeah, Obama is a professing Christian, I’ll gladly give him that title. But you forget where he got his Christianity. Rev Jeremiah Wright–the most UN-Christian person to ever dupe a cngregation, and NOT where you would get a a “Christian education and understanding.” Wright was Obama‘s mentor and if that’s the type of “Christianity” that he taught Obama, Obama is no more Christian than that stupid bed post I stub my toes on every time I get up at night to go to the bathroom. Obama can profress it all he wants, but where you spend 20 years going to church shouts NON-CHRISTIAN.

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  • MastrSSG
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:48pm

    Wasn’t Jim Jones a Progressive minister?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:57pm

      and a Kool-aid salesman just like Obama

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    • mlcblog
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:03pm

      Jim Jones was a looney tunes but Jim Wallis is a dripping commie.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:45pm

      I would hide the valuables , the wine, and the alter boys……

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:10pm

      Yes, Jim Jones was a Progressive Preacher. No surprise knowing that Jones built his perversion of Christianity in San Fransisco. He was also a radical Socialist POS.

      Anyone who wants to read an insightful book concerning Jones and his hypnotic socialist/progressive diatribe pick up “A THOUSAND LIVES” by Julia Scheeres.

      In it you will discover the psychological gerrymandering of unsuspecting minds of people who tend to be weak in faith and spiritually dead. It shows the draw of the radical progressive agenda and the methods to “get the masses” to commit suicide collectively. No different than what Wallis is doing with this Occupy idiots movement, and propelling them from his New York City center. To communists like Wallis, lives must be sacrificed to achieve the replacement theology goals. Useful idiots is, and has always been the Marxists way.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:25pm

      Yes he was. Hmmmmm, coincedence? Hardly. The progressives have made a deal with the devil that has been passed on for years. Do not underestimate the power of the insanity and hatred that they exude into society. We have witnessed this in the past and will continue to be exposed to it . Good and evil have been at war since the begining of time. The importance of faith and morals can not be denied. It is your path to choose . For the trolls who spew the rhetoric of the progressive agenda, I feel sorry for you. And, I will continue to pray for you even though I struggle with it.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:50pm

      @ pamela kay
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:25pm
      —————————————————————————————————————————
      Very well stated Pamela.

      Nope, there is no surprise that the weak minded, and weak spirited would cling to that watered down anti-Christ message (Wormwood) that progressive “preachers” peddle.

      We know that Wormwood does what? Kills those who drink it. Jim Jones did physically exactly what his message to his deceived people through the spiritual poison did to their souls. He delivered them to a 2 fold death. Just like progressive messages through anti-Christ preachers like Wallis is doing with these occupy useful idiots.

      Their message is contrary to every moral lesson taught by Jesus, and it’s inclusion doctrine of tolerance exposes them for exactly the anti-Christs they are. We KNOW that Christ called us out to be a separate people. A people who will not be blown about by every wind of doctrine of false teaching. We hold fast our first love, and don’t compromise the Truth for social acceptance.

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  • Crusty Thong
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:44pm

    Let them come into his church. They can p00p all over his church. P00p on that pastor while they are at it!!

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  • ENTP
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:44pm

    How fitting… we always knew his “church” was a privy…. will he hand out free toilet paper when they are through taking a dump inside? Remember in the bible people who worshiped false gods,their places of worship were turned into a privy? (2Ki 10:18-28)

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    • antiencenom
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:09pm

      Now there ‘s a picture of the first three traitors to be arrested

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    • 1389AD
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:21pm

      Free toilet paper? They can borrow some from the White House, the stuff that has the Constitution printed all over it.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:43pm

    Jim Wallis is a pied piper, playing the songs of misplaced compassion and leading many astray from the truth.

    Jim – there is no such thing as “collective salvation”.
    Jim – the kingdom of God is a Theocratic Monarchy NOT communism or marxism.
    Jim – position and rewards in the KIngdom will be given based on MERIT, not on making everyone equal.
    Jim – The CHURCH is awake and aware of your lies and tactics.
    Jim – America may embrace the poor and downtrodden, but it will NEVER EMBRACE COMMUNISM.

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    • trouthunter
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:47pm

      Nicely said.

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    • Marine_Spouse
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:54pm

      So true!

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    • ZAP
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:01pm

      he is an anti-Christ.The true definition of one

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    • FSM_47
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:04pm

      great response

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    • PastorRob83
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:42pm

      Jesus (Matt. 25:31-45):
      31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

      34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

      37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

      40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
      44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

      45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of th

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    • PastorRob83
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:55pm

      My Scripture quote ran out of space, but here’s a link to The New International Version: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:31-46&version=NIV .

      To comment that Pastor Wallis is supporting “communism” is just plain false. Liberation theology, which was in vogue at many liberal seminaries years ago (including mine) is deeply flawed, but Rev. Wallis motivations come directly out of his deeply held Biblical, evangelical faith. You slander the man to assert otherwise even though you may strongly disagree with his suggestions or assertions.

      Like Todd Agnew said in one of his songs, he doubts Jesus would be welcome in his congregation because the blood from his wounds might stain the carpet. I dare say that Jesus might have more problem with the judgement many spout on blogs and in comments both here and on popular talk-radio or cable television.

      There is often an underlying judgement of those who are on the lower socioeconomic scale which simply does not reflect the teachings of Jesus no matter how one tries to justify this. Aside from the support of the unborn, I’m not sure that Jesus would see much in the policies and agenda of the “religious and political right” which reflect His teachings. That is probably also true of the agenda and policies of the “religious and political left” which also often distorts Jesus’ teachings to defend particular agendas. Both are wrong and do not properly reflect the Christian faith.

      Pastor Rob

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:04am

      @ PastorRob83

      YOU SAID: “To comment that Pastor Wallis is supporting “communism” is just plain false.”

      REALLY? Jim Wallis has had relationships with the communist Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). Wallis, together with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Obama’s former pastor of 20 years) “rallied support for the communist Nicaraguan regime and protested actions by the United States which supported the anti-communist Contra rebels” (Family World News, February 2009, p. 7). Sojourners formed a commune in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Southern Columbia Heights, where members shared their finances and participated in various activist campaigns that centered on attacking the U.S. foreign policy, denouncing American ‘imperialism,’ and extolling Marxist revolutionary movements in the Third World.

      Also, Jim Wallis said, “I don’t know how else to express the quiet emotion that rushed through me when the news reports showed that the United States had finally been defeated in Vietnam” (Ronald H. Nash, “Why The Left Is Not Right,” p. 58). In his own publication Wallis wrote: “Many of today’s [Vietnamese] refugees were inoculated with a taste for a Western lifestyle during the war and are fleeing to support their consumer habit in other lands” (Sojourners, September 1979).

      Wallis founded an anti-capitalist magazine called, The Post-American, in which he called for the redistribution of wealth and an economy managed by

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:08am

      .con’t:

      the government.

      While charity and generousity are commanded to believers in Scripture, it is ALWAYS in an INDIVIDUAL sense. NOWHERE in Scripture does it say that charity means “government redistribution”.

      It DOES however, say this: Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s.”

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:21am

      @ PastorRob83:

      1. Jim Wallis IS a supporter of communists and communist ideas. To say otherwise means you are either uninformed or a liar.

      2. The passage you quote of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew MAKES MY POINT. Self-sacrifice, Generosity, Charity & Compassion are all named here by Jesus as traits of INDIVIDUALS. Jesus here is basically saying: “YOU Cared enough as an individual to take time out of your schedule and money out of your wallet and food off of your table to care for someone else. That means so much, it’s as if you did it for me personally.”

      NOTE that what Jesus is NOT saying is: “you created a government institution which forcibly taxed your society and redistributed the money to assist others.”

      WHY did Jesus NOT say that?

      1. Because Jesus didn’t come to save a GOVERNMENT, He came to save INDIVIDUALS.
      2. Because CHARITY by definition, must be willing, from the heart, freely given, NOT forced by a law.
      3. Because believers in Jesus will be rewarded NOT for creating a a social system, but for INDIVUAL actions: Please read Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-28

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:42am

      Hey, Pastor Rob (name fits),
      When the devil quoted Scripture out of context, Jesus replied with Holy Spirit fire. So here’s for you:

      ==> “A man of noble birth… called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’… He… returned home. Then he sent for the servants… in order to find out what they had gained with it. The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’ ‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’ The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’ His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities.’ Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’ His master replied,…’Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?’ Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’ ‘Sir,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’ He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” (Luke 19:12-26)

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:56am

      (CONT.)
      Q: Why did the master reward one of the faithful servants with ten cities, while the other faithful servant only got five?
      A: Because one produced more with what he got than the other one.

      Q.: Why didn’ t the master redistribute the wealth of the unfaithful servant between the two faithful servants?
      A: Because the master is not a Marxist. He rewards based on merit. The more you produce, the more will be added onto you. END OF STORY.

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    • Methodist_Pastor_Serving_Christ
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:14pm

      You Americans who listen to your popular political talk-show entertainers seem to LOVE easy definitions and resort to emotional name calling when you disapprove of someone’s position. Many of you posting here profess Christian faith, yet you do not apparently see the irony in your name calling and over-the-top pronouncements about your President, Pastor Jim Wallis and members of the ‘Occupy’ movement.

      I should not be surprised. You are Americans after all and apparently do not really practise the teachings of Jesus who calls for compassion, respect and love even for your ‘enemies’. I do not see any of that here. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, but you will be responsible to God for your views, judgmental attitudes towards others and your self-righteousness.

      I pray that you experience sanctifying grace and seek to live in perfect holiness which means that you would have no room on your hearts for hatred and judgement of anyone.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:27pm

      @ Methodist_Pastor_Serving_Christ

      1. More than once you use the phrase “you Americans”, so I’ll assume here that you hail from a country where socialism has already crept into every nook and cranny of society – including the church. Here in America, a society was created where the government was intentionally divided and limited so that people would be FREE to live and to worship as their conscience dictated. It was founded on the New Testament concept that ALL believers form a nation of priests and kings (1 Peter 2:9 & Revelation 5:10) and need no dictator, king or State to order our every move. So as you are a non-American, please understand that we are ALL watchmen of our God-given Liberty. (Galatians 5:1)
      2. You posted your accusation under MY post, so I’m assuming you level your comments at me. I note, however, that you do not acknowledge that I posted FACTS and QUOTES regarding Jim Wallis. NOR do you offer any rebuttal, facts or quotes to disprove them.
      3. Specifically, you have accused me of “emotional name-calling” & “over-the-top pronouncements”. YET IN THE VERY SAME POST, you condemn ALL American Christians as people who “do not really practise the teachings of Jesus who calls for compassion, respect and love” & “judgmental attitudes towards others and your self-righteousness.” MAY I POINT OUT that you have done the very thing you came here to accuse others of? Please provide evidence that American Christians are as you describe?

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:46pm

      @ Methodist_Pastor_Serving_Christ (con’t.)

      As if I needed to prove that American Christians were ALREADY the most generous people on the planet http://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compasionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008216

      May I remind you of the Parable of the Ten Virgins? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Ten_Virgins

      The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

      Interesting that Jesus calls many believers “foolish” because (1) they not only did not make sure they could make it on their own, but (2) when faced with a shortage because of their poor planning, they suddenly became Occupy Wall Street protestors, DEMANDING a “redistribution” of wealth. The fools were suddenly transformed into Communists – even though they were believers. They tried to play on the compassion of the other Virgins – whom Jesus calls “wise”. The FOOLS were rejected – not only by the other Virgins, but by the Bridegroom Himself. Think about it.

      Regarding Jim Wallis, I remind you that Paul says “God will judge those outside the Church, but believers are to judge what goes on inside the church” 1 Corinthians 5:12-13. Jim has cloaked himself in “compassion”, but underneath he is a communist and one who warps the Scripture by taking our personal obligations and making them Governmen

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  • Bronco II
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:35pm

    The scripture talks of the Synagog of Satan where false doctrine is taught and he speaks of those of his children who will be delivered up to him and the Holy Spirit will speak thru them.The scripture says delivered up to death but must know DEATH is one of many names for Satan.Christ died on the cross to defeat Death.If you are one of them you are not to have any forthought of what YOU would say to satan your to let the Holy Spirit speak thru you if you refuse the Holy Spirit THAT IS THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. It’s in GODS WORD have you read it and studied what will come in the end times.The signs are all around us those who have eyes to see let them see and let them who have ears to hear let them hear SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING. YOUR SPIRITUAL EYES AND EARS.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:40pm

      Looks like obama is grabbing his ass…..and Hilary is laughing about it.

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  • trouthunter
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:32pm

    Evil begets evil….a house divided cannot stand….no wonder he’s taking them in. We better start orgainizing our house folks and like Glenn says, choose sides and then stand with each other. This guy totally creeps me out. Did anyone else notice that the clip Glenn uses all the time of Wallis “Absolutely, without hesitation…” that one, sounds just like Sandusky did in his interview with Costas??? CREEPY!

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:37pm

      I’d say we are pretty close to rapture since the abomination of Desolation began in 1970.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:41pm

      1970 is when they began the pillaging of the Proverbial “Women” and daughters spoken of in the Bible, that be the same as raping the people of their spirit.

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    • trouthunter
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:46pm

      I would agree…in my gut, it’s felt close for about the past 4 years or so.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:48pm

      I would say that the term “church” is used very, very loosely in America.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:52pm

      I definitely agree, and the labor pains are getting way more intense, but still we haven’t seen nothing yet.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:56pm

      The term church has been used loosely for the longest time, because a true church is the temple of the heart and mind and isn’t made by earthly hands.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:31pm

    Glad I do not have to clean up that mess!

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  • lel2007
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:28pm

    Pastor Offers “Church” as Sanctuary to Occupy Protesters ?? – This will be entertaining. This article’s accompanying photo says it all.

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  • TheLeftMadeMeRight
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:28pm

    Obama’s chickens, are coming home to roost…

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:27pm

    Nothing wrong with churches letting these protesters in, that’s their business. It‘s not the protesters that’s the problem. It’s the instigators like van jones who is using taxpayer money to provide $5K laptops and other goodies to keep them motivated. Hell, if barry gets four mo years we’ll be needing shelter too as winter will be coming on in nov 2012.

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  • JohnK144
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:27pm

    Infiltration on every level. But God will hold you accountable, Jim Wallace, for your attempted infiltration of the Faith of Jesus Christ.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:26pm

    Let him support them for a while, George Soros, Van Jones and Barry have supported them long enough.

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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    • coyotecanyon
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:00pm

      I wonder if the trigger legislation to stop U.S. money, 80,000,000 will be illegally blocked by Obamao to send the money to the most corrupt, worthless, dangerous entity on earth. God Bless Isreal. God Bless America.

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  • tbarr4
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Arrest Jim Wallis, Van Jones, Granny Piven, Fat Boy Moore, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Sharpton, Pelosi, Reed, Now!!!

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    • sndrman
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:36pm

      the list is actually longer most all in hollywood commie’s unions and unions and so on. this is a deep rooted problem. we slept while these progressives waited for their chance and obama was and is it

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

    As I was watching the live feed a short while ago, they had a group of little children down there, right in the middle of the whole mess, chanting their socialist BS. The children looked to be about 9 or 10 years old.

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    • JohnK144
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Yes. And as far as I’m concerned, we should not call him Jim Wallis. We should call him “Jim Sandusky, because what he is attempting to do is no less perverse.

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  • undercover
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Wallis suggested that Thanksgiving is the “perfect occasion” for churches to reach out and offer Occupiers shelter.

    WHAT? These are the most thankless individuals in the world!

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Typical progressive, giving away what isn’t his to give. Why doesn’t he let them stay in his private residence?

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Thats a good thing. They can deficate and urinate there and trash that place. Instead of public places and private businesses. Too bad the “church” can’t hold them all.
    Sounds like an opportunity for more indoctrination of the “huddled masses”. The gospel of Obama.

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  • qzak491
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:24pm

    Let’s see how long that lasts when they start dumping on his carpet and destroying things. These “things” aint house broke, leave them outside or in a barn somewhere. If they are going to act like animals treat them like animals. There is no excuse for what they do. Job or no job, you don’t have to act like pigs.

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  • garyM
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:21pm

    I’ve heard any religion who worship any false god can join Rev Wrights church, even muslims, the protesters should fit right in!

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  • Kankokage
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:20pm

    This man terrifies me. His is apparently the only politically-correct religion, yet I have absolutely no idea what his religion believes in. All I ever hear him preach is government, hatred for conservatism, and socialism. Or, maybe, Sojourners is actually front for The Super Adventure Club. In fact, I’m willing to bet on it.

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  • PATRIOTGRUNT
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:19pm

    Maybee they can sh___t on his alter ond “ The One ” can be his Motivational Speaker on Sundays.

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  • RIGHTHOOK
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:19pm

    So Obama’s “Progressive Pastor” is supporting N-17. Nice! What a complete and total surprise.
    He’s not “exactly” Progressive, he is a terrorist sympathizer, aka Communist.

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  • jimay
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:14pm

    First United Church of O-ba-ma-ville is formed!
    Daily worship of one’s free will, leading to a life of no regrets and no accomplishments…

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Think they will poop on the altar of this church like they have in the others? These people don’t seem to be house “church” broke. My dog is .. but these animals are not!

      TEA!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:11pm

    Wallis can have ‘em. Let the commie take in some more commies. Enjoy yourselves.

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