Televangelist Rev. James Kennedy Dead

The Rev. D. James Kennedy, the controversial televangelist who built Fort Lauderdale's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church into a politically powerful house of prayer on a foundation of Biblical fundamentalism, died Wednesday morning.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/226256.html

Kennedy campaigned tirelessly to tear down the constitutional wall separating church and state. In 2005, Rolling Stone called him ``the godfather of the Dominionists [and] the most influential evangelical you've never heard of. A former Arthur Murray dance instructor, he launched his Florida ministry in 1959, when most evangelicals still followed Billy Graham's gospel of nonpartisan soul-saving.

''Kennedy [preached] that it was time to save America -- not soul by soul but election by election ... [George W.] Bush sought his blessing before running for president ...'' the Rolling Stone piece said.

Kennedy once preached that he and his followers' ''job'' was to ``reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.''

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Rolling Stone Article: THE CRUSADERS:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/

What a year it has been.  Jerry Falwell, Tammy Faye, and now James Kennedy. 

I feel the same way about Kennedy's passing as I did about  Falwell.   Both preached  dominionism; exclusivism, bigotry, and  hatred.  

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