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End Of Day - 10-21-26 - SBC Leader Urges Pastors To Speak Up, Obama Lies About Israel, Polling Propaganda

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

SBC Leader Urges Pastors To Speak Up

SBC Leader Urges Pastors To Speak Up

 

Kudos to Pastor Willy Rice! The president of the Southern Baptist Convention is urging pastors across America to speak up about the critical issues confronting America in the 2026 elections.

 

He has noticed, as I have, that while conservative Christians are told to keep our faith out of politics, the Religious Left has gotten even more politically active, especially this year. (See next item.)

 

Some pastors have told me that raising “political issues” hurts the cause of Christ. Thus, they avoid these so-called “political issues” like the plague. But in doing so, they are failing to speak up about moral issues that are confronting the Church, our families and our country. As Dr. Rice warns, they are creating a vacuum that the Left gladly fills.

 

Dr. Rice urged pastors to focus on these specific issues:

 

  • What Scripture says about the sanctity of life and God’s design for us as men and women.

  • The dangers of growing socialism and Islamism in America.

  • Immigration, borders and the rule of law versus blind compassion.

 

Several states have referenda on the ballot regarding abortion and transgender issues. The Bible is not silent on these issues. It speaks very clearly about life and gender.

 

Dr. Rice warns that socialism is a worldview that makes the state supreme. It destroys constitutional rights and private property, while it promotes envy.

 

Regarding radical Islam, he writes, “A politician who cannot condemn terrorism cannot be trusted to defeat it. . . Pastors who love their neighbors, including our Jewish neighbors, must help their congregations to see that.”

 

The Marxist/Islamist alliance is a very real threat to Judeo-Christian civilization. Marxists and Islamists hate America, and they hate Israel. The radicals attending pro-Hamas campus protests and anti-Israel demonstrations in major U.S. cities are part of the Democrat Party coalition—not Republicans.

 

That coalition made Marxist Muslim Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City this year, just 25 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That same coalition may put Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, a socialist and an Islamist, in the United States Senate.

 

On immigration, Dr. Rice nails it. He writes:

 

“We must reject the argument that compassion requires Christians to support open borders. . . That argument is both manipulative and diabolical. Loving people does not mean leaving the doors of your house unlocked.”

 

Please share Dr. Rice’s column with your pastor.

 

 

 

Politics As “A Form Of Ministry”

 

Democrats have had a serious problem with Christian voters ever since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980. So, they went out of their way to recruit a few leftists who can quote chapter and verse of the Bible while trying to steal the Gospel of Jesus Christ and distort the Bible to promote their radical leftist agenda.

 

James Talarico is the poster boy for this obvious effort to confuse faith-based voters. He’s even a seminarian student.

 

Talarico struggled with the decision to run for the Senate or finish his religious training. But his far-left pastor, Rev. Jim Rigby, who effectively denies the divinity of Christ, convinced him to jump into the political arena. He told Talarico that his Senate campaign could be “a form of ministry.” That would be true if spreading the Gospel of Marx qualifies as “ministry.”

 

As I have often said, politics is the Left’s “religion.” Government is their “god.” And donating to political candidates and causes is their “tithe.”

 

I don’t know what Bible Talarico is reading. He says his Bible is silent on abortion. His Bible told him there are at least six genders and that God is “non-binary.”

 

He has preached sermons in his church about abortion and transgender issues. In fact, he put the two issues together when he declared, “Our trans community needs abortion care too.” 

 

Democrats recruited radical Adam Hamilton, the former pastor of the largest Methodist Church in America, as their Senate candidate in Kansas. Hamilton has no problem promoting transgender ideology from the pulpit. He was highly critical when President Trump repealed Biden’s extreme executive orders pushing radical gender ideology on our children. (Matthew 18:6 comes to mind.)

 

In Iowa, Democrats recruited Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor, to run in a competitive House district. In addition to holding extreme left-wing views on every issue, the big lesson she learned from 9/11 was just how Islamophobic America is. So, when Islamists kill 3,000 Americans, she sees Americans as the problem.

 

 

 

Obama Lies About Israel

Elisha Wiesel, son of famous author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, is taking Barack Obama to task for spreading antisemitic and anti-Israel narratives.

 

Last week, Obama spoke about the conflict in the Middle East at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was vintage Obama. Every word was carefully crafted to sound so reasonable. But it was a vicious attack on the idea that Jews had ever lived in the Holy Land before 1947.

 

Quoting his father from a 2001 column, Elisha wrote, “‘To compromise on territory might seem, under certain conditions, imperative. . . But to compromise on history is impossible.’ That is the line Mr. Obama crossed in Belfast.”

 

To any American Jew who has not woken up yet, let me put this clearly: You are being thrown to the antisemitic mob by the entire Democrat Party. Chuck Schumer won’t speak up, and other Democrat officials are all in on the Marxist/Islamist alliance.

 

In the 1930s, European Jews were shocked when their neighbors turned on them. “Never again” has become today.

 

During Passover Seders, Jews recite the phrase “in every generation they rise against us to destroy us.” What we saw on our college campuses and the streets of our cities after October 7, 2023, is a generation that is coming to kill Jews. Leftist politicians won’t actually do that themselves, but they are creating the political atmosphere where it is far more likely to happen.

 

 

 

Democrats Vow To Destroy Musk

 

Congressional Democrats and the Left have declared all-out war on Elon Musk. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar have called Musk, who is one of the most innovative and visionary entrepreneurs of our lifetime, “dumb” and “lucky.” Those two couldn’t turn a profit at a lemonade stand in the August heat!

 

Elon Musk took the space program to a higher level in just a couple of years that NASA, as a government agency, couldn’t do in decades. He saved our free speech rights by buying Twitter, turning it into X and ending the censorship.

 

There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in the United States. Oddly, most of them are left-wing Democrats. So was Elon Musk just a few years ago.

 

But he saw where the Democrat Party was headed, and went all in for MAGA and making America great again. Not because he’s a “committed lifelong Republican,” but because he wants to save America from the totalitarian Left. That’s why many Democrat socialists and Marxists hate him.

 

Now, powerful Democrats in Congress are publicly saying, “Give us more power and we’ll destroy this guy.” That’s how Marxists operate. It was Joseph Stalin’s secret police chief who infamously said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”

 

Remember how the Left reacted when Musk and his DOGE exposed waste and fraud in the government and shut down the Left’s taxpayer-funded gravy train? They attacked owners of Tesla cars and Tesla dealerships. They hate Musk, a legal immigrant, while they love illegal aliens who pour in to exploit our country.

 

In recent days, Musk announced that he was giving one share of SpaceX stock to every child in America. He wants every young American to watch the SpaceX liftoffs in the months and years ahead and think to themselves, “I own part of that.”

 

The Left wants our children thinking, “Look at that guy’s car. I should have it, not him, so I’m going to take it.”

 

Democrats are against the death penalty, but they would gladly build a gallows to hang Elon Musk. He left the Democrat Party because it was hijacked by Marxists who hate successful people. But you can’t have jobs without successful job creators.

 

 

 

Polling Propaganda

 

Yet another polling firm has admitted to completely faking its surveys. Made-up polls by this firm convinced one Democrat to drop out of the Michigan Senate primary. And it was likely this firm that convinced Democrats to dump big bucks into the Mississippi Senate race. (If we lose Mississippi, I’m moving to Mars!)

 

Don’t fall for the “gloom and doom” predictions. Don’t let ANYTHING dissuade you from voting.

 

According to reputable polls, at least seven major Senate races are toss-ups. If these polls are underestimating GOP turnout, and they have for several election cycles, it’s possible that Republicans could sweep all seven races. But only if you vote!

 

 

 

America Must Reject Marxism & Radical Islam

Long-time friends and supporters of Dr. James Dobson and the James Dobson Family Institute gathered in Colorado Springs last week. We discussed many issues, but one unmistakably constant concern was the growing alliance of Marxists and socialists with radical Islamists happening right now in the United States.

 

Read more in my latest public policy update for the James Dobson Family Institute.