Richard Land, the former head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s political arm who is now president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary, repeated his claim on Tuesday that Barack Obama’s presidency is “a direct judgment of God on America” for legal abortion.”
“In our society, there’s an idea abroad that unborn babies are not fully human beings and don’t deserve the protection of the law,” Land told South Carolina pastor and radio host Kevin Boling. “That’s resulted in 57 million babies being killed, it’s resulted in a rise in euthanasia and rationed health care to the elderly and a brutalization and devaluation of human life in the United States. And I believe it’s also brought about the judgment of God.
“You know, nobody ever talks about the fact that if you wantonly turn your back on God and you engage in horrific and barbaric activities, God’s going to judge you. I believe that Barack Obama being president of the United States is a direct judgment of God on America for killing 57 million babies.”
Land added that the only reasons “why God has not judged us more severely than he has” is that “we have blessed Israel” and that “in spite of all of our paganism in this country we still provide 90 percent of the manpower and 95 percent of the funding for the worldwide missionary effort of the Christian faith.”
Earlier in the conversation, Land disputed the right-wing conspiracy theory that President Obama is secretly a Muslim, saying that the president is “a very typical example of a 21st century mainline Protestant who has a very cafeteria approach to biblical truth”
He added, however that the president is “sympathetic to a lot of anti-American causes,” citing Dinesh D’Souza’s movie “America,” to claim that Obama has “an anti-colonial bent that he got from his father and he just thinks America is a bad influence in the world, and everything ought to be done to withdraw American influence and to have other influence.”
