CREW To Obama: Skip The National Prayer Breakfast

HuffPost is quoting groups warning Obama to stay away from the “National Prayer Breakfast.”

Not associated with the National Day of Prayer Task Force, “the fundamentalist Fellowship Foundation, which has organized the breakfast with presidents and prominent Washington and world leaders since 1953.” (Fundamentalist, apparently is used here as a perjorative and not a technical term of theological taxonomy).

While the enemy of my enemy may be my friend, the NPB has a rather eclectic collection of speakers including Mother Teresa, Bono, and Tony Blair, speakers that most who would self-identify as fundamentalist would not welcome into their pulpits.



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3 Responses to “CREW To Obama: Skip The National Prayer Breakfast”

1. pilgrim says:

   February 1, 2010 at 9:13 pm

   My only thought is… since the National Prayer Breakfast is in all practicality and reality a celebration of open doctrinal confusion and evident spiritual compromise at a Washington level….
   Why wouldnt this appeal to any and all of todays' politicians ?
   Why the fuss?
   I wouldnt step foot in one… but for todays' brand of leaders…at least there are probably hot pancakes to go with all that pork theyre routinely glomming up and passing out.

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2. "reformed" says:

   February 3, 2010 at 1:37 pm

   Eggs, pancakes, home fries, and pork sausage aside, its the imagery associated with our Christian past that is an ill fit with the liberals' revisionist history program, and not helpful to Obama's diversity agenda.

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3. pilgrim says:

   February 3, 2010 at 2:25 pm

   reformed, I agree it is the imagery that is so poisonous to the diversity agenda.
   My only point is that the NPB is an illusion or image only..and therefore worthy of nothing but political football and hash.

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