10/28/08: Wow, the passions are running high during this election. I've read and heard some pretty messed-up stuff recently, but now I've just received something that tops it all. A friend of mine has a customer who sent him an anti-Obama email a couple of days ago. It was sent as a serious email, not as a joke or as an example of how crazy things have gotten.

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Please take a minute to read the message below.  It will put this election back into perspective.  I have looked at polls, read blogs, and watched the debates, and everyone is attacking everyone.  There's a lot of unproductive name-calling and downright nasty arguing among people, but this message clears the way to understanding what's happening across this country. 

 
     I was very dismayed when, recently, a member of my Church said to me with
                   great resignation that she was afraid Obama will take the presidency.  These
                   words came from someone that in the past has been a great prayer warrior.

                   'What is happening' was my question!!  Why are we Christians settling for the
                   loss of our Christian heritage, not issuing a battle cry and falling to our
                   knees and taking our country back?

                   We allow ourselves to be stripped of the right to pray at school functions
                   and in school , we have the Ten Commandments removed from government places and
                   are told we cannot pray publicly or proclaim Christian principles, all the
                   while providing public prayer places for Muslims.  We allow Muslim mosques to
                   operate in America funded by Saudi Arabia , and proclaim anti-American,
                   anti-Christian threats and terrorism.

                   What in the world is going on and why are we being so apathetic? Why aren't
                   we praying?  Our God is an Almighty God who is waiting patiently for us to
                   raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Christian actions in our
      World today.

                   Now we have a charismatic, albeit inexperienced, candidate for president that
                   does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except when it
                   becomes politically expedient, and whose own wife and pastor that he loves
                   profess to have strong anti-white feelings, and we sit back and say 'it is a
                   given, we can do nothing' ????

                    There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a
                   time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men's and women's hearts to
                   take over our world!   We should be afraid, very afraid because our apathy is
                   leading us to perdition.  It is time for all Christian Americans to raise the
                   battle cry and take our nation back!

                    Maybe McCain on his own cannot defeat Obama, but our God can and He will if
                   we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens. We have
                   the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man as suspect
                   as Barak Obama from leading our country to who knows
where with his message of change';  a change which I
fear will be away from our Christian ideals, and
                   away from Christ, a further away from one nation
under God to one nation Under Allah.

                   We are great at passing stories and pictures around the internet, but where
                   are our prayers and prayer warriors praying to stop this tide of Barak Obama?
                   We can bring our country back to its Christian roots and stop the undermining
                   of our country by Muslims.  We can stop our country from being 'under Allah'
                   but we must begin to pray; to pray as our country and our lives depended on it
                   because they do.  We can stop all these atrocities against God's commandments
                   that have taken root in our country th rough something as simple as sincere
                   prayer, a call to God to deliver us,  to protect us from the evil that is upon us.

                   OK, prayer warriors, here is your challenge......Start those prayer chains.
                   Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop Barak Obama the proper
                   way, by calling on our God to save us from the deception that charismatic
                   preaching is using to lead us on the wrong path.  Stop those who would take God
                   out of our country and our government.   Raise up good men to lead us and
                   protect us.   But we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken
                   further off the path of Christianity and to have God removed from our
                   presence in our schools, courts, government and businesses.

                   Invite  God into the fray.  Ask that His power rest upon us and give us the
                   victory.  Ask him to raise up a mighty army to defend us and to protect our
                   country as he did in days of old.  Let us be victorious beginning NOW.  The battle
                   is His but we must call on Him without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and fasting.
 

                   Please pass this around to all people of prayer that you know and maybe, just
                   maybe,  we'l l bring a  victory for us and ultimately for HIM.  AMEN!