Thanks for the correction/clarification Mike. I have been in many modern day churches and synagogues, and that stuff is not being preached.
When the Pastor of my Church began asking the congregation to pray for more gun control about 10 years ago, I first wrote him a letter explaining why I felt that was wrong, and why I was also certain it would be offensive to many of his congregants who owned guns and enjoyed shooting and hunting. Then I spoke with him about it personally, and also invited him to go shooting. He stopped asking us to pray for gun control. We can question our clerics, and reason with them.
