(OPINION) ETH – A pastor from Louisville, Kentucky has sparked outrage across the country after being seen and heard on television during a worship service Sunday curse those who he says “stole” the 2020 election from President Donald Trump in the name of Jesus.

Pastor Bob Rodgers of Evangel World Prayer Center, in Louisville, stated: “Father, those that have lied, those that have stolen this election, those that have cheated, I place the curse of God upon them,” the statement was both seen and heard in a video clip from the service shared online.

“I curse you with weakness in your body. I curse you with poverty. I cursed you with the worst year you’ve ever had in the name of the Lord.” According to the Christian Post, Rodgers is also the president of Word Broadcasting Network in Louisville and co-hosts a Christian program called “Word Alive” with his wife, Margaret.


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Rodgers also claimed in another apparent clip from the service, that he was told personally by an angel from the Lord that Trump would have won the election. “I had an angel come to me and tell me that Trump was going to be the next president,” he said in the clip that could not be independently verified by The Christian Post.

“And to be honest, he probably had the biggest landslide victory in the history of America. But that doesn’t mean we are wrong. It means it isn’t over yet.”  According to the report, several Louisville pastors who heard this sermon are now speaking out about the dangers of Rodgers’ message in the wake of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. by Trump supporters last Wednesday.

“Less than a week after we see the violent mob storm the Capitol, and riot and loot, where one police officer was beaten to death, and less than a week after that, you’re pushing that kind of rhetoric …” the Rev. Tim Findley of the Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center said at a press conference Wednesday, according to local news outlet WHAS11. “I think now you’re in an irresponsible, dangerous place.”

The report stated that Frank Smith of Christ’s Church For Our Community called on Rodgers to apologize and confess that he had gone too far. “Confess that you have gone too far,” Smith said. “Lead your people to truly a sound theology not tainted with Democratic patriotism but rather based on the sacrificial blood from the cross.”

When Rodgers was confronted about the incident, he told WHAS11 that his aim wasn’t to curse people but to curse the demonic forces working in them. “This is a prayer not to curse people but to curse the demonic forces that people have allowed to rule them that would harm a nation,” he was quoted as saying. “I do pray that trouble will come to them if they don’t repent and that they will turn from their wicked ways.”