Faithful Fellowship on C Street

The teachings of this organization contradict mainstream Christianity. They believe that God gives power to a select group of Men and that they should work to gain more power. They compare Jesus to Hitler, Pol Pot, bin Laden, and Lenin. If you want to know more, read Jeff Sharlet's book, "The Family."

I recommend C-PR training or reserts for those worried.

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Thank you for the reminder...

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I am sick to death of people like Cal Thomas, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and all their assorted ilk hijacking Christianity. These folks wouldn't recognize Jesus Christ if they ran into him on the street. In fact, they'd undoubtedly cross the street to avoid being around someone like that. Real Christianity has nothing to do with the power and politics game of these folks. So get your hands off my Jesus and my Christianity Cal...you're dirtying the brand.

From a previous poster:

"While they conduct no fundraising operations, they reported revenues of more than $12 million in 2003 from donations. Their primary activity is to develop small support groups for members of Congress."

What we should insist on knowing is from whom did the $12 million come from - what lobbyist, what big corporations, what fat cats are bank rolling this thing and what do they want and or are what are they getting from these members of congress for this kind of serious cash?

I would hazard a guess that this in not the only such “spiritual” house the organization bank rolls. This should be topic number one for some investigative reporter who is brave enough to take this on!

BTW, Cal how much do you get from this organization in the form of goods and services – fellowships for study and the production of essays that fit the organization’s agendas?

Do not be naive folks, this is not about religion or spiritual guidance; it is about power and money. The religion part is just window dressing to fool simple folks into defending them in the papers, etc. You are being used big time by Cal and his sponsors.

No surprise here.

Cal Thomas, he of the pursed lip, stupidliy self sastified piety group

sees no problem at all that two of the latest, biggest cheaters thumped the bible and declared their great character really loud, and of course often, with colleagues.

About cheating. A cheater lies and cheats and deceives, etc. On your wife, why not with money, with your word *(as above).

Bernie Madoff cheated with money. Cheat cheat cheat. Do we pretend is means nothing?

Has nothing at all do to with character and whom to trust. Just cheating on a woman, your wife, your children, is not considered much?

In the aggregate, cheating brings a country, a family, a party, a business, down (uunless you're Goldman Sachs, of course).

We'd better rethink things.

ColoradoDog, what does your response have to do with Cal Thomas's original post?

Absolutely nothing, that's what.

More evidence for my theory that most of the people who post on these boards just get a kick out of saying nasty things about each other in anonymous forum.

Do you believe in God, Cal?

(of course you do)

Do you believe the Bible is the literal word of God, Cal?

(of course you do)

Do you believe in the word of God in Leviticus, Cal?

(of course you do)

Do you believe Leviticus 20:10 that says if there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

In the case of Senator Ensign who did this exact thing with his friend's wife, do you believe in the word of God, Cal?

(of course you don't)

Why not, Cal, if you believe the Bible and Leviticus is the literal word of God?

Do believe you and you ilk cherry-pick scriptures for your own convenience and disregard the rest, Cal?

(of course you do)

Mr Thomas says:
"wave the hypocrisy flag because Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign and Republican Governor Sanford took part in a Bible study".
No; they call hypocrisy because he pontificated at length about President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, and called for and voted for impeachment.
He now needs to heed his own moral compass, and RESIGN.

Jesus himself would be afraid of this outfit!!! READ:

From Wikipedia "The movement in the U.S. is incorporated in the United States as a tax-free 501(c)(3) organization operating under the name The Fellowship Foundation. While they conduct no fundraising operations, they reported revenues of more than $12 million in 2003 from donations. Their primary activity is to develop small support groups for members of Congress. Prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense."

Some members - Inhofe, Grassley, DeMint, Brownback, Ensign, Brownback, Nelson, Domenici - OMG!!

"I would prefer to look at the far greater number of people who have passed through this house and who have not cheated on their wives and have been encouraged to "keep on keeping on" with a life of personal and professional integrity."

If I were the bettin' type I would bet these people who live lives of personal and professional integrity pray daily for the sexual downfall of liberal politicians.

Why do I think this? Because my conservative, born-again co-worker tells me his prayer group does this. Some personal integrity, eh?

this marvelous house, is it, er, next door to the house senator vitter frequented. i mean, after all, he's one of your guys.

Rev. Thomas:

"To suggest that because some occasionally fail at living up to the standards they profess and this proves the house serves no useful purpose, is like saying that because someone drops dead at the gym, exercise is of no value."

But religious conservatives *do* say that when the person in question is of some minority or political party they don't *approve* of.

That's where the hypocrisy is, regardless of how organized that hypocrisy may be or how.

Why do dissenting voices cause so many of you such grief? Boo-hoo, Froomkin got canceled. If you want to hear preaching to the choir, go to the huffingtonpost or unabashedly progressive site.

Diversity of opinion is a GOOD thing. Don't be afraid of it. You've still got Dionne, Milloy, Marcus, King and several other liberal op ed writers.

Not everybody needs to hew solely to either the conservative or liberal paths.

As far as this post, what's the big deal. Cal Thomas says that the house on C street isn't a bad thing because people are trying to become better followers of Jesus. You don't have to agree with him, but it doesn't justify the personal attacks.

And FWIW, even if you do not believe that Jesus was divine, there is still plenty in his teachings that most of us could learn from.

I am sure "Jesus of Nazareth" would gladly step back in order for these men and women(are there any women who attend these meetings) to get the emotional maturity classes they obviously need to help them in their daily lives. I am sure "Jesus of Nazareth" would welcome his classes be replaced with ones that teach these Republican and Democratic folks with NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES how to live and work together as the intelligent, emotionally mature, mentally stable public servants they desire to be.

Really, "Jesus of Nazareth" wouldn't mind these folks coming "out of their religious closet" on C street and standing in broad daylight, afterall, it would be a good step towads the integrity department.

K Street lobbyists and now C Street! Wonder what A, B and D through J Streets hold?

Face it Cal - the repressed moral scolds that pass for GOP politicians are unable to control themselves. Foley, Vitter, Craig, and now Ensign and Sanford - all of these people tell us we can't have an abortion or marry someone we love, but their hypocrisy shows a deep self-loathing that makes discounting their ideas all too easy. Cal - instead of scolding us, maybe you could do something really Christian, like help poor people. Then you'd be useful, for once.

No one standing at the door of this C Street house will ever see a women entering into it. The house has an underground tunnel which connects to another house nearby which is used by the prostitutes, both male and female, to enter into this "sacred" house.

To remove an insightful, trenchant, productive, fearless columnist who is also a terrific writer (named Froomkin) in order to continue publishing this sort of excrement (from a Cal Thomas) is a sick, sick thing to do to your readers, and to the profession of journalism.
The editors and managers of the Washington Post should be ashamed of themselves. Many of your readers are.

I really cant believ what the post is doing to itself. They get rid of Froomkin , but have room for this strange, bizzarre person.

If, as Cal Thomas indicates, C Street serves as some secret refuge for congressmen (no spiritual sorority sisters welcome at this clubhouse?) on both sides of the aisle to share fellowship together outside the glare of the public, it would be nice if participating Republicans and Democrats would demonstrate a little of that Christian charity towards each other for the taxpayer's benefit in the bright light of day. Who knows what a boon to governance that might provide?

Not that I'm advocating proselytizing on the floors of Congress, just that they make their behavior congruent with their public professions. A quality, which, as I recall from my New Testament, Jesus put a premium on. You know, walk your talk.

There is something scary about our leadership in DC living immersed in superstition and fantasys praying to some plastic idol glued to their dashboard before casting votes the our Nations future depends on. Pres. Bush claimed he spoke with God and look at what he did to Katrina and Iraq. No one could be surprised if Vitter and Craig ended up having been roommates on C St.

Cal Thomas laps up the excrement of Jesus out of the gutter. A shameless apologist for his criminal Christian friends.

It's 133 C Street SE. No big secret. The Post ran a story on it just today. And other papers have published the address in years past.

I got no problem with people living in an environment like that. What they choose to believe is their business.

But what I do have a problem with is them being tax cheats. The building is clearly being used as a residence. The tenants pay rent. As such, the property is a residential rental property. It should be paying local DC property taxes.

Having a once a week dinner where you may or may not discuss religion is a pretty weak if you are claiming the building should be tax exempt as a religious institution.

I'm wondering what would happen if the rest of us Hill residents tried claiming similar religious exemptions to DC property taxes.

I'm betting we wouldn't get away with it. But, then, we aren't powerful politicians.

Truly, there are two sets of rules. One for Congressmen and Senators, and one for the rest of us.

If there is such a place, give us the full address. We need to wait at its entrance and find out who's visiting! And we need to know whether these are the same who have forsaken the common folks of the U.S. and treat the government as their source of funding dor their selfish and self-serving pleasures!

Why does the Washington Post inflect Cal Thomas on the public and take Froomkin away?

The fact that the WP gives print space to this pathetic, embarrassing hack is further proof that the mass media deserve to die a quick, but hopefully painful, death. How does the WP expect sentient beings to pay it any mind when the Dan Froomkins of the world get axed and you publish this crap?

What, no out-of-context Werner von Braun quotes supporting the earth-is-6000-years-old quackery? Hardly vintage Cal Thomas.

Those born again bores probably drove them to sin.

If their is such a House, then Do Not let the location of the House be known, if their is such a place and it's on the up and up, where people can gather, and be friend's and act like a family, let it be.
Once the media and other's know ,their goes the House.
A Place of innocent gathering. A place to go and have peace of mind. Sounds like the doorway to Heaven.