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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ted Cruz's pal blames band, fans in Paris for enjoying "devil" music,says attack was "shot from God" [View all]
Conservatives hate freedom and want the terrorists to win
Right-wing Colorado pastor and radio host Kevin Swanson suggested that the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris was "a message from God" and posed a question to the "concert-goers, at least those who survived: 'Did you love the devil and did you love the devil's works as your friends were being shot up in that massacre?'"
On the November 19 edition of his show Generations Radio, Swanson said he was "deadly serious" about wanting to ask survivors of the terrorist attack, which occurred during a concert by the Eagles of Death Metal, whether they "appreciate[d] the works of the devil as their friends where being shot up in that concert" (emphasis added):SWANSON: These events are important. I think it's important to analyze them. They're symbolic to what's happening in our entire society today, and when you get a wake up call like what happened at France's 9/11 last Friday night, at the concert I think we all need to pay attention to what's happening. This is a message from God. God is shooting a shot across the bow and we better be paying attention to this. Music matters, culture matters. Culture ultimately is a reflection of world view, and so if you want to know world view just take a look at the culture and say 'oh that's what the world view is all about.'
SWANSON: It's a warning. Certainly a providential irony here. These are the works of the devil, the mass murder itself, are the works of the devil. In other words, there was a demonstration of the devil and his works happening at the time that they were singing the song "who'll love the devil, who'll sing his song, I'll love the devil, I'll sing his song." At the moment they were singing that, the devil himself or at least the devil influencing these murderers and entered in showed the concert-goers the works of the devil. Now at that point, I think we need to ask concert-goers, at least those who survived "Did you love the devil and did you love the devil's works as your friends were being shot up in that massacre?" I think we ought to ask the question right now. And I'm very serious, I'm deadly serious asking this question. "You were dancing to this worship service to the devil, the devil came in, the devil did what the devil does best: he killed, he massacred, he destroyed. As the devil did his works," again, the microphone is in the face of those who were attending the conference [sic] right now, I'm asking the question of those attending that concert "did you appreciate the works of the devil as your friends where being shot up in that concert?"
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/20/right-wing-radio-host-victims-of-bataclan-terro/207012
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Ted Cruz's pal blames band, fans in Paris for enjoying "devil" music,says attack was "shot from God" [View all]
Adenoid_Hynkel
Nov 2015
OP
Obama denounced Wright, while Cruz and co. stand by this clown and will continue to do so
Adenoid_Hynkel
Nov 2015
#4
The name came from an apparent bar argument where a drunk guy kept insisting that
Dr Hobbitstein
Nov 2015
#22
It is a great story either way! Although.. I still like Kyuss more than QOTSA or EODM lol
opiate69
Nov 2015
#58
He's like the folks who blamed the Hebdo victims for having made cartoons....
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#9
"Hi! It's me, crazy-ass Colorado mofo Kevin Swanson, here to tell you
struggle4progress
Nov 2015
#16
I cant keep track of who is and isnt but I just repeat over and over and over the reasons
randys1
Nov 2015
#83
Between Hit and this fuckwit, one would think that someone somewhere is creating extermination
lonestarnot
Nov 2015
#24
OMG, I am embarassed for the chatter coming out of the mouths of the candidates. If a pastor thinks
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#28
Is this the same God that pushes some people to burn down churches? Consistent he is not.
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#29
I have a feeling this Swanson clown is going to be caught with a male prostitute in a....
Crowman1979
Nov 2015
#32
So what's the difference between his core religious rules and those of ISIL/Taliban/Al-Qaida/et all?
haele
Nov 2015
#45
It amazes me when uber Christians claim islamic radicals are the intruments of God. n/t
Gore1FL
Nov 2015
#72