Perry’s Summer Reading: Book that Urges Prayers for Conversion of Jews

David Streeter — August 30, 2011 – 12:28 pm | GOP Presidential Candidates 2012 | Republicans | Separation of Church & State Comments (4) Add a comment

Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry is currently reading Charles Stanley’s Turning the Tide—a book that may be of great interest to American Jews and others. Excerpts from the book include the exhortations to “pray that Jews worldwide will accept Him as their Savior,” and to “Pray for God’s protection against terrorism and ask that Muslims through the world will come to know Jesus as their Savior.” Politico described it as “a Baptist pastor’s how-to for Christian conservatives who want to change the country’s direction.” According to New York magazine’s Joe Coscarelli, “some choice excerpts from the actual words inside reveal ‘change the country’s direction’ to be something of a euphemism for ‘convert all Jews and Muslims because they are heathens.’”

Coscarelli wrote:

As Mother Jones notes, the ‘tide’ in the title is actually a ‘tsunami of death and depravity that we’re running out of time to thwart.’ Then there’s this, from Stanley: ‘Pray for God’s protection against terrorism and ask that Muslims throughout the world will come to know Jesus as their Savior.’

The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza ... tweeted some additional excerpts from the Stanley book, including ‘pray that Jews worldwide will accept Him as their Savior,’ and, ‘May the people of Israel acknowledge their guilt, seek Your face, and accept Your Son—the Messiah.’

Then, of course, there’s the claim common on the religious right that our founding fathers ‘based the Constitution and the laws of our country on the principles they found in Scripture,’ and that leaders should ‘reaffirm our Christian heritage and reestablish Your biblical precepts as the basis of American society and law.’

Perry has echoed these teachings in his own assertion that ‘natural law, God’s law, is the basis of our nation’s laws.’ So far, at least, he’s been more quiet about his Muslim- and Jew-saving.

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