Satan's Candidates
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Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 11:20:35 PM EST
According to Christian Right leader Lou Engle, evangelical Christians who don't get political are helping elect Satan's candidates.

In an interview with Charisma magazine, Engle said he believes that the midterm elections could turn on a rally he is leading this weekend in Sacramento.

"There is a hill above Capitol Hill," Engle said. "It's God's praying church who actually begins to influence the governments of the earth through their prayers."

Engle makes no apologies for his political advocacy. He believes if Christians don't influence politics, Satan will.

Prayer and preaching the gospel are the church's primary calling, he said. "But to say don't get involved in those high places [of government] is actually allowing our archenemy Satan to put his own people in those high places, where spiritual powers can actually control societies and release laws that actually legalize systemic evil," Engle added.

The Satanic candidates are, of course, those who endorse marriage equality and reproductive rights. The statements of purpose of The Call, and the wider Pray & Act initiative are crystal clear about that.
(Engle, and the Pray & Act co-chair Jim Garlow were leaders in the successful campaign to pass Prop 8 in California.)

Engle's actions and words have been somewhat lost amidst the national hoo ha over Glenn Beck's pseudo Martin Luther King dream rally.  

I posted an essay a few days ago here at Talk to Action (crossposted  Daily Kos, Open Left and Street Prophets) detailing how this relates to some of the Religious Right's main plans for the Fall.  Since then, Joe Conason at Salon.com picked-up on my report, and showing the connection between Beck's quasi religious political rally, and Engle's quasi political religious rally in Sacramento. Also, AlterNet reprinted my original story today.

But the political blogosphere has with few exceptions been pretty quiet about all this -- even though this weekend's rally is intended as the kick-off of a series of Christian Right events intended to stimulate their constituencies -- young people in particular -- into political action this Fall.  What's more, these events are being choreographed by none other than Newt Gingrich (!!!).

These events are not intended as mass rallies so much as mass cyber-casts. There is a press release just today giving the details of the weekend broadcasts on "God TV."  It will be interesting to see how well this works for them. It will also be interesting to see how effectively the emergent new stage of reorganization, coordination and cooperation among conservative Catholics, Protestant fundamentalists and neo-Pentecostals works out as well.  

Rather than repeating myself, I offer this as a reminder that the Christian Right has been doing some rather shadowy organizing while Glen Beck draws all of the attention.  But they will begin to step out into the sunlight this weekend.  



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Satan's Candidates | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
Could this cause them problems? (5.00 / 1)
Considering how the Republicans are going through some conflict over their "Gay Problem", is there a possibility this might backfire on them?

From what Bill Berkowitz wrote, it is starting to sound like some of the Republicans are getting tired of the same old stuff coming out of the dominionists/Religious Right.  There is variation in the "Religious Right" (or whatever you want to call the overall movement), and IMO unless they're careful, that variation might start turning into fractures (another possibility is the Democrats shooting themselves in the foot, as they've often done).  This sounds like it could expand the conflicts Bill mentioned.

I hope that the sunlight reveals to the world what those jackasses are really about- control and micromanaging the lives of ordinary people (while milking them of every penny possible), while giving the super-rich a pass.  However, they've always been good about keeping their real goals in the shadows.

by ArchaeoBob on Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 11:38:03 AM EST


One Nation Working Together (5.00 / 1)
We all can show our support for each other by participating in the Washington DC Rally of our own on 10.2.2010 http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/?page_id=37

by sovereignjohn on Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 02:32:54 PM EST

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