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The Palin Scandal in The Living Room
All but several of the myriad of journalists, pundits and ostensible experts weighing in on the nature and significance of Sarah Palin's religious beliefs and associations were oblivious to the very existence of the particular and easily identifiable religious movement Palin is tightly associated with. High level leaders in that movement directly tied to vice presidential candidate Palin were on public record urging Christians to 'infiltrate' key sectors of society such as government and business and proposing a program of religious and social cleansing in which entire population groups would convert to the form of Christianity espoused by the New Apostolic Reformation or else be 'displaced', driven from 'the land'. [At 24, Sarah Palin joined Mary Glazier's Wasilla prayer group. Glazier fought a witch in '95 and now advocates religious cleansing of entire lands, by believers in her movement. The video documentary includes Sarah Palin's October 2008 appearance on Focus on the Family head James Dobson's radio show, during which Palin thanked "our prayer warriors across the nation."]
On October 16, 2005 Sarah Palin was endorsed, blessed and anointed by Thomas Muthee. Video footage of that ceremony is in the public domain. In first video featured in this post, Muthee tells his Wasilla Assembly of God audience, which included Sarah Palin, that 'God's Kingdom' (Christians in his movement, that is) should 'infiltrate' and 'penetrate' seven key areas of society including politics and government. Muthee also said that 'the Israelites' control the economy. Thomas Muthee is an international celebrity to millions for Muthee's role in the Transformations video series, by George Otis, Jr. which describes how crime, addiction and other societal problems can be cured by driving out 'witches' and casting out territorial demons. Sarah Palin, in 2000, while mayor of Wasilla, borrowed one of the Transformations videos from a former pastor of Palin's. Thomas Muthee is a 'valued personal friend' of, and has occupied a number of positions in the organization of, C. Peter Wagner - the head of the New Apostolic Reformation. One of C. Peter Wagner's 500 'apostles' owns the Jakarta Tower. Through his apostles Wagner probably has more people (at least), worldwide, under his authority than in all the US mainline Protestant denominations put together. The NAR is at war with the Catholic Church and is rapidly eroding Catholic Church membership in Brazil. The NAR holds international conferences on how Christians can gain economic supremacy. It draws, for membership, from the estimated 295 million Neocharismatic Christians globally. [below: 73 second video showing virulent anti-Catholic nature of New Apostolic Reformation movement tied to Sarah Palin]
At 24, in 1989, Sarah Palin joined the prayer group of Alaskan religious leader Mary Glazier, who subsequently became a Wagner apostle and a top leader in Wagner's NAR. Another Wagner apostle ( J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma Magazine) confirmed, to NYT reporter Laurie Goodstein (detailed in Goodstein's October 24, 2008 NYT story), that Palin had been in Glazier's Wasilla prayer group. A third Wagner apostle, Jan-Aage Torp, has stated that Palin is currently a member of Glazier's prayer warfare network, which is now part of C. Peter Wagner's Spiritual Warfare Network ( now named the Global Apostolic Prayer Network ). A few months ago Mary Glazier proposed a program of total social and religious cleansing, violent by implication. Audio of Glazier's declaration is in the public realm. Glazier said, to Wagner and other top NAR leaders on July 13, 2008, that 'there is a tipping point ...at which time because of the sin of the land the people have to be displaced. . . God is preparing a people to displace those whose sin is rising.' C. Peter Wagner has decreed, in 2006, that it is God's will that believers should 'plunder' the wealth of the 'godless'. Top NAR leader Cindy Jacobs, who along with Mary Glazier serves on Wagner's Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, told an audience at the Ring Of Fire Convergence conference in Jakarta, Indonesia held August 19-21 2008, "You know what's going to happen ? One day in our countries they're not going to say 'Oh, you know those Jews, they're so wealthy.' They're going to say 'Oh, those Christians. Everything they touch turns to gold.' " Mary Glazier is Alaska Director and also Northwest Region Director for Wagner's Spiritual Warfare network. Thomas Muthee is East Africa Director for Wagner's Spiritual Warfare Network. Both claim to have successfully fought witches with prayer-warfare. Both witch-hunters have confirmed ties to Palin. In 1997 C. Peter Wagner sent an expedition, which included Wagner's wife Doris, to Mount Everest to battle a global demon spirit that they say hovers over the mountain and blocks the prayers of Catholics and Muslims from reaching heaven. Wagner and other NAR leaders have written that the expedition may have contributed to the death of Mother Theresa. In 2005 Wagner's elite Eagle's Vision Apostolic Team went to Israel to map out demon influences. Team leader Martha Lucia, in a report on the expedition, wrote that the Knesset is the 'mind of Satan' ( on Earth, presumably ). Both Wasilla Assembly of God head pastor Ed Kalnins and Thomas Muthee are on record stating their belief that Christians can effect miracle healings and raise the dead. On March 14, 2004 Thomas Muthee told a congregation at the UK Kingsgate Community Church that "places like Brazil, they are Catholic strongholds. But people are getting saved ! 500 every single hour !" [below: 10 minute video documentary examines virulently anti-Catholic nature of New Apostolic Reformation movement. "Places like Brazil, they are Catholic strongholds," declared Thomas Muthee on March 14, 2004 at a United Kingdom church, "but people are getting saved anyway! Five hundred every single hour!" A colleague of Muthee's planned a "spiritual warfare" expedition to Mount Everest that New Apostolic Reformation leaders later claimed helped contribute to the death of Mother Theresa. This video also examines advocacy of violence by top NAR leaders. As an additional feature, the video shows the actual video footage of pastor John Hagee's now notorious "God sent Hitler" sermon which this author put into a three minute and forty second YouTube video that went viral, was broadcast around the world, and was widely credited in mainstream media for causing John McCain to renounce his political endorsement from John Hagee. In the video footage of the late 2005 sermon, Pastor John Hagee pantomimes a Nazi holding a rifle aimed at Jews.]
[below: another treatment of the relationship between Mary Glazier and Sarah Palin.]
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