Short Takes: Sarah Palin Edition
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 03:01:37 AM EST
Religion Dispatches: Kathryn Joyce profiles Palin -- as McCain's mad pander to the Religious Right continues to unfold.

Gay City News:

The accumulating evidence about Palin, pushed by innumerable blog posts as well as the major media, has created a gnawing fear that she would radically change America if she became president. Her view is that the US is a Christian nation dominated by believers interpreting God's will and asking their fellow Americans to open their hearts to His message. Whether or not others are swayed, Palin argues that public policy should be guided by that will.

State of Belief: Palin's "theocratic rhetoric."

Wall of Separation: Rob Boston writes:

Who is to say when we are "right with God"? Some fundamentalists are certain that non-Christians, liberal Christians, agnostics and so on can never be "right with God." They have the right to believe that, but when government officials imply that they have the power to apply such a standard, it's time to get nervous.

Daily Kos:  Rush Limbaugh and the RNC apparently take their cues from Frank Pavone regarding making an issue of Sarah Palin's Downs Dyndrome baby. And not all evangelicals are wowed by Palin. (Especially Doug Phillips, who is a Constitution Party partisan anyhoo.)

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TV news showed a U tube video of Palin speaking in a church explaining that the war in Iraq was a war fighting for God.

by wilkyjr on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 09:05:46 AM EST

Hopefully the news will get out about these churches' involvement with major leaders of the Third Wave/New Apostolic Reformation.  While this movement seems to be invisible to most, it is other conservative churches that  document their activities.  

Palin's close ties to the beliefs and activities of internationally known NAR movement leaders like Rick Joyner, Rodney Howard-Browne, and others will not be good news to many conservative Christians. Furthermore, this Latter Rain based movement is in clear violation of Resolution 16 of the General Council of the AoG, which seems to have lost the battle of trying to keep it out of their own affiliated churches.  I have seen many accounts online of people pleading with the AoG to do something about Todd Bentley's excesses, like kicking cancer patients in the stomach during healing sessions.

by Rachel Tabachnick on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:00:54 PM EST

I do not for an instant believe that the AoG REALLY were trying to keep the NAR as you call it out of their churches.  This sounds like a CYA move to me.

After all, I spent a few years in those churches- and can relate that they really do try to cover their a**es.  When I was a member of that cult, I used to hang out with students from one of their Bible "Colleges"- especially the students being trained to infiltrate and try to take over other denominations.  One thing I remember being stressed was to keep this stuff secret- and that came from "headquarters".

Part of their training was on how to become accepted in other denominations and HOW TO KEEP THEIR REAL BELIEFS AND GOALS SECRET FROM THEIR TARGETS.  I vaguely remember discussions about the meetings they went to on how to do this.

They're good at hiding their evil... but as true with all persistent evil, it will surface in one way or another.

Note how they've been trying to hide Palin's connections to them.  That is a good example.


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