I don’t care if anyone WISHES anybody else to be dead, because I do not believe WISHES have any power. My problem is with people ACTUALLY killing one another. Wish for the death of others all you like; I think it’s perfectly morally acceptable so long as you don’t follow through.

There so much reason to be upset about Wiley Drake’s comments. The fact is that people listen to Drake, people like Scott Roeder. Now, I agree with you whole heatedly when you are stating that the power of prayer is a joke; it is true that each time Wiley Drake makes one of these death prayers and it goes unfulfilled it just proves the lack of his praying prowess. However, the point remains that we need to be upset about this. We have as much to fear from Islamic radicals as we do from Christian radicals. God will not strike down President Obama, but another nut job like Scott Roeder just might. It does end there. Be upset not just because comments like those made by Wiley Drake have real word implication, be upset because what he is doing is completely unfair. Jim if you or I walked up to any rational person and said “excuse me, I just wanted to let you know that I want that guy over there to die.” That person would be appalled and more that likely lecture us one how wrong it is to wish the death of another. If we don’t get upset about this then we saying it’s morally acceptable for anyone to wish death on others, whether it have any real threat or not. Now it is America’s duty to be that person, get upset, and take an ethical stance by letting the country and Wiley Drake know that it is not OK to wish any one to die, let alone our president!

Just goes to show how one man’s Islamic Fundamentalist is another man’s Christian wacko. You are right to ignore such ravings but perhaps not giving these publicity speakers the oxygen in blogs is the answer. Leave them to suffocate on their own bile.