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Rooftop Revelations: Though I deal in politics because of my position in the city of Chicago, I never let it rise above my faith in God
We Americans are living in a time unlike anything before. Most of us can barely keep up with the changes coming out of Washington, D.C. to the rest of America and the world.
Nobody has even asked what President Donald Trump is going to do in his first 100 days because he has already done more than the last four presidents combined did in their first 100 days. The fact there would be resistance to this new agenda was a given, but what I do not tolerate is the call for violence in Jesus’ name.
When Rev. Steve Caudle took the pulpit at the Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church of Chattanooga in Tennessee, he said that "sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight."
Caudle set the stage for his call for violence with a foreign policy focus. "Fact of the matter is, we live in a world that is violent," he said. "You don't believe me, all you have to do is turn on the television set this afternoon and you'll see Gaza, where every building has been leveled by bombs, and then shooting and killing."
Continued below.
The destructive politics of hate vs. the power of faith
Far too many of us have committed the sin of using religion to justify our political agenda. But that is now the way forward, it only corrupts the soul.
