i don't know that anything more important in this thread has been said than zen tom's summation:
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he makes the point that here is a popular religious leader, publicly calling for the assassination, by the government, of the leader of a sovereign nation. I remember seeing a post in here a few weeks back that was calling for the West to militarily move in on foreign religious leaders because they were daring to complain about Western foreign policy - and here we have a prominent American doing exactly the same thing with apparent impunity.
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Calling for the death of anyone is not Christian practice as far as i'm concerned, and to do so publicly and for purely political reasons is crassly sinful, an open defiance of God's demand that we love one another as Christ has loved us.
i think some of the leftists are taking the wrong tack here, however. in politics, as in many things...i believe that silence says a great deal. while it is never fair to assume that one person speaks for an entire group...a failure to refute or confront a self-appointed spokesperson can be a troublesome thing. If there are excesses in our own house, we must be the first to be honest about them...imo.