Wichita church marquee message point of contention
5:41 p.m. Monday, November 17, 2008
"As practicing Christians that you say you are, you should be following Christ then, right?"
Protestors and parishioners bicker outside the Spirit One Christian Center.
"You just said....no, no, no, I never said..."
The anger is over the messages on the church's marquee, calling Barack Obama a Muslim and claiming it was a sin to elect him.
"I am so unbelievably opposed to Spirit One Christian Center and what they've done," protester Benny Kincaid said.
"We just felt really hurt by what it said and just wanted to come out here and spread the word and kinda tell people, look what they're doing," protester Matt Gillian said. "And yet they use the Koran to justify running into buildings? We used the Bible to justify killing 1000s and 1000s of Muslims during the crusades," Kincaid argued.
The pastor of Spirit One has caused controversy in the past with his politics. His church was the center of an IRS investigation. He was once arrested at a gay rights event, and preaches Muslims are out to destroy Christianity.
"Just like everybody hated Jesus for relaying the message of truth, they hate us because we're trying to relay all the messages of truth and God's word," church member Patty McAvoy said.
Spirit One Pastor Mark Holick believes the United States should be a Christian nation, similar to the way Israel is a Jewish state. Whether or not Barack Obama is a Muslim doesn't really matter to Holick. What does is he's not an evangelical Christian, so therefore it was a sin to elect him
The main point of the marquee is to cause Christians to understand he's not a Christian.
"They call and tell me he's not a Muslim, he's a Christian. That's not the point. The point is he's not a Christian," Holick said.
Holick says nothing he's ever done has inspired more angry phone calls and emails to his church. He says he has no plans to take down the sign anytime soon.
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Nov. 17, 2008 at 6:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)ItsAllInYourHead (anonymous)
I'm sick of people saying Obama is a Muslim. These people need better things to do. And a Bible to re-read.
Nov. 18, 2008 at 6:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)plainlyspoken (anonymous)
This is why organized religion of any kind is both dangerous and evil. Every nutcase in the world feels his/her "god" or "religion" is the only way--and they'll go to any length to prove it. Like the whacko's who kill abortion doctors to prove that killing is a sin. Christians, Muslims, pick one--repression of women, murder and intense control and domination over everyone and everything is the theme of both. If people would stop buying into the myth of religion, good men like Obama could just run the country the way it should be run and not have to pander to the superstitious witch hunting freaks that all religion seems to produce. Check out Buddhism. Live and let live.
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