Oh gawd, here we go again...,. Kamala Harris: A Baptist with a Jewish husband and a faith that traces back to MLK and Gandhi By DARREN SANDS July 26, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/kamala-h...church-india-1aaa7a87fdbf32e675b9bd55ea072032 WASHINGTON (AP) — Black clergy who know Vice President Kamala Harris, now the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, marvel at the fusion of traditions and teachings that have molded her religious faith and social justice values. A Baptist married to a Jewish man, she’s inspired by the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and influenced by the religious traditions of her mother’s native India as well as the Black Church. “She’s had the best of two worlds,” says her longtime pastor, the Rev. Amos Brown, who leads Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. In interviews, religious leaders and theologians told The Associated Press that Harris’ candidacy has special symbolic significance following President Joe Biden’s departure from election campaign. Not only because she would be the nation’s first female president, but she’s a Black American with South Asian roots and her two cultures are intrinsically linked. The clergy and scholars noted that the concept of nonviolent resistance, a critical strategy in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, gained influence under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi in India, who was an inspiration for many decades to America’s Black preachers and civil rights leaders. Gandhi was a Hindu who preached Hindu-Muslim unity. “It may be through the Negroes that the unadulterated message of nonviolence will be delivered to the world,” Gandhi said in 1935 to a visiting delegation led by prominent Black U.S. theologian Howard Thurman. Those shared cultural links can be found in Harris’ family history, too. Her maternal grandmother was a community organizer, and her grandfather P.V. Gopalan, was a civil servant who joined the resistance to win India’s independence from Britain. Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, even met King as a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, where she participated in civil rights demonstrations. “She was conscious of history, conscious of struggle, conscious of inequities. She was born with a sense of justice imprinted on her soul,” Harris wrote of her mother in her 2019 book “The Truths We Hold.” The Black Church tradition also influenced Harris. “The vice president has a strong Christian faith that she’s talked about a lot,” said Jamal Simmons, a pastor’s son and Harris’ former communications director. As a Democratic strategist, he has helped candidates make inroads with faith communities. “She was raised in a Christian church, and attended Christian churches throughout her life, and I think that still influences her, her worldview and her ethical commitments,” he said. The Rev. Freddie D. Haynes III, a pastor in Dallas, first met Harris at Third Baptist in San Francisco, sparking their more than 30-year friendship. Haynes – whose family has close ties to Third Baptist – was guest preaching at the time while visiting his mother. Harris, then the Alameda County district attorney, had just joined the congregation. “She has always understood that Jesus and justice go together. So, it’s not hard to see why she chose a church that has that kind of justice DNA,” said Haynes, whose grandfather shaped Third Baptist’s social justice identity as its pastor. Then his father carried it on during his short time in the pulpit. Through the years, Haynes and Harris connected over their shared faith. Haynes said she admired his ability to blend Black Christian theology in the pulpit with the cadence and rhythm of hip-hop. It was Harris’s commitment to serving the most vulnerable that impressed him. “Her spirituality has been informed by a sense of justice for those who are othered, disadvantaged, and treated as second-class citizens,” said Haynes, who leads Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas. As a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Harris was immersed in a cultural environment influenced by deep faith. The fellowship and service she learned at her alma mater is key to understanding the spirituality driving her sense of purpose, said Matthew Watley, pastor of nearby Kingdom Fellowship AME, one of the fastest growing churches in America. Watley said Howard’s commitment to service through religious passion and academic prowess never leaves its students. Several of Harris’ friends, including a line sister in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., worship at Kingdom Fellowship, where Harris has attended twice in recent years. Joshua DuBois, former head of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, said because of the influence of Eastern and Western cultural and religious traditions, Harris exudes a kind of ecumenism that makes her candidacy appealing to an array of religious voters. “I think that presidents are grounded in their faith and inspired by their faith in numerous ways. It’s the wellspring that they draw from,” said DuBois, who worked under former President Barack Obama’s administration. “When you know the world is going mad how do you connect to something larger than yourself?” “I also think faith can help you with prioritization,” he added. “Often times you can only focus on one thing as president and you face the question: Who needs you the most? I think that is certainly how Jesus walked. That’s how Gandhi walked.” Black women, including clergy and activists who have not stopped organizing and praying since the COVID-19 pandemic, are quickly embracing Harris. The Rev. Traci Blackmon, who joined 4,000 Black clergy on a recent pro-Harris call, said the outpouring of support for her is connected to the anticipated ugliness and opposition she is bound to face in her sprint against former President Donald Trump. “She should be president because she’s equipped, prepared and the best candidate for the job,” said Blackmon, a St. Louis-based United Church of Christ minister, who spoke to the AP as Harris gathered delegate support. The call was organized by the Black Church PAC, co-founded by the Rev. Michael McBride, a longtime Harris supporter and pastor of The Way Christian Center in Berkeley. McBride told the AP that he was still in the pulpit on Sunday when Biden withdrew his candidacy. After the benediction, McBride said, one of the church mothers stood up, shared that news, and asked, in effect, “What do we do now?” McBride and many other Black pastors who have been calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war will be looking to Harris for leadership that would bring about peace. Brown, her own pastor, was among the Black clergy who visited the White House in recent months to appeal to the Biden administration. “To me it’s a matter of peace and justice,” Brown said. On Sunday, after Harris was endorsed by Biden. she sought out Brown with an evening phone call, about an hour before the AP reached him at his home in San Francisco. “I’m calling my pastor,” Harris said in her typical greeting, referring to the man that staffers in her office are instructed to get to know during their first week on the job. She wanted her pastor to pray, and pray Brown did, that Harris “would be the quintessential instrument to bring healing, hope and wholeness” to the United States of America.
We've just seen zionists and christians working together to worship their created god only to see mayhem, the results you'd expect from their created devil. Not holding out much hope for a continuation of presidents praying to their idol for attaining godly results.
If Harris gets in, watch for the zionists to step in, leveraging off her Jewish husband, by ramping up their brainwashing campaign of "You need to help us, we are victims, we need bombs to fight the devil seeking to destroy us".
So much for any proposed hostage deal and ceasefire. Hamas is failing once again to step up to the international agreement and is back to demanding all sorts of added conditions. This just shows that Hamas is not interested in peace -- only in playing a delaying game to stay in power in Gaza. Additionally there is not way that Israel is going to leave the Netzarim Corridor and Philadelphi Corridor so Hamas can smuggle in more rockets and munitions from Egypt to launch at Israel. Hamas obstinate on hostage deal demands, insists on full Israeli withdrawal - report Hamas has reportedly demanded that Israel's withdrawal from the Strip would include the Netzarim Corridor and the Philadelphi Corridor. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-812093
Why is Israeli PM Netanyahu angry at Kamala Harris? The New Arab Staff 26 July, 2024 https://www.newarab.com/news/why-israels-netanyahu-angry-kamala-harris Israeli officials have lashed out at the US vice president and presumed Democratic Party nominee for the presidency after she urged an end to the war on Gaza. Harris struck a more forceful tone in her remarks than President Joe Biden [Getty] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have lashed out at US Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for the presidency, after she said it was time for the war in Gaza to end. Harris' remarks at a press conference after meeting Netanyahu came amid significant political pressure on the Israeli prime minister from different sides of the political spectrum to reach a ceasefire deal and end the onslaught on Gaza. "There has been hopeful movement in the talks to secure an agreement on this deal, and as I just told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done," she said. Netanyahu was reportedly "upset" by her on-camera statement and was concerned the comments would "harm" the talks on a Gaza deal, according to comments by an Israeli official cited by Axios. The official told the outlet that Netanyahu was disgruntled by Harris's comments which referred to a Gaza deal as an "end" to the war while Israel has been pushing for a truce that enables it to resume the fighting after a captives exchange is implemented. The Axios report also said that the Israeli prime minister was displeased with the fact that Harris criticised his country publicly over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and for killing civilians. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Netanyahu and his hardline allies see Harris's comments as potentially undermining their position by signalling a rift between the United States and Israel. They also worry that such statements might be interpreted by Hamas as a sign of division, potentially complicating or delaying any peace deal, according to an unnamed official cited by the news agency. Both Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, leaders of two hardline religious nationalist parties whose support is vital for Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, condemned Harris' remarks. "Madam candidate, there will be no cessation of hostilities," Ben-Gvir wrote on the social media platform X. Harris struck a more forceful tone in her remarks than President Joe Biden, who has himself increasingly pressed Netanyahu to conclude an agreement with Hamas that would halt the fighting and bring Israeli captives home. She defended Israel's right to"defend itself" but her remarks suggested she was losing patience with Netanyahu's government. "What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time," Harris said. "We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent." Rights advocates have also weighed in, urging Harris to clarify her position on the genocide in Gaza. Lawyer and human rights activist Petra Molnar said the presidential nominee "needs to clarify her position on [...] a ceasefire, a peaceful resolution protecting the Palestinian people and [on] ending impunity and holding Netanyhu's [government] accountable for war crimes [...]". Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch's executive director Tirana Hassan has warned that "US lawmakers should be seriously concerned about the liability risks of continuing to provide arms and intelligence based on Israel’s flimsy assurances that it’s abiding by the laws of war". "Enough is enough," said Paul O'Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA. "The US government has been presented with ample evidence from experts around the world that US-origin arms have been used in war crimes and unlawful killings by the Israeli government. "Continued weapons transfers will make the US complicit in violations of international law committed with these arms."
Biden, Blinken, Netanyahu and all the zionist cronies make a pretence at wanting peace. Their god is a god of war, anger, revenge, that's what drives them, pure and simple. Their god says "Take the land" and by hook or by crook they'll take the land.
Jews and Americans will never be happy. After they take Palestinian land the next step the bible says " Conquer the world" and these religious cunts will fight again to appease their god.
Christians and Jews have an enemy, a devil. They have created a devil in their heads and it's themselves.