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Monday, September 08, 2008

If Jeremiah Wright is fair game, let's take a look inside Sarah Palin's church, shall we?
Posted by Jill | 7:09 AM
Palin's church is less a house of faith than it is a house of politics -- specifically Dominionist politics, as Bruce Wilson of Talk to Action reports:

Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world.

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The pastor, Ed Kalnins, and Masters Commission students have traveled to South Carolina to participate in a "prophetic conference" at Morningstar Ministries, one of the major ministries of the Third Wave movement. Becky Fischer was a pastor at Morningstar prior to being featured in the movie "Jesus Camp." The head of prophecy at Morningstar, Steve Thompson, is currently scheduled to do a prophecy seminar at the Wasilla Assembly of God. Other major leaders in the movement have also traveled to Wasilla to visit and speak at the church.

The Third Wave is a revival of the theology of the Latter Rain tent revivals of the 1950s and 1960s led by William Branham and others. It is based on the idea that in the end times there will be an outpouring of supernatural powers on a group of Christians that will take authority over the existing church and the world. The believing Christians of the world will be reorganized under the Fivefold Ministry and the church restructured under the authority of Prophets and Apostles and others anointed by God. The young generation will form "Joel's Army" to rise up and battle evil and retake the earth for God.


More here.

Somehow I don't think Charlie Gibson is going to ask Sarah Palin about her church the way Barack Obama was called to task for his, even though Sarah Palin's religion explicitly calls for taking back the earth for Christ -- and being a melanoma away from the Presidency puts her in a position to impose her lunatic religious views on the rest of the country.

But there is MSNBC, quaking in its boots before the Almighty McCain Campaign, lest people start questioning the extent to which Mrs. Palin is prepared to follow George W. Bush as the self-appointed architect of Armageddon.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
IIBC, Christian Dominionism is intertwined with Joel's Army, the Fivefold Ministry, the Prosperity Gospel and "birthing."

Guess the common denominator:

"Latter Rain," to uuse its true name.

Whose origins date back to a revival-tent ministry in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in 1948, and would quickly gain so much notoriety that within a year, the Assemblies of God declared "Latter Rain" teachings to be heretical and deviant.
9/8/08, 2:29 PM  
Blogger Fran said...
I just put up 2 videos- about 15 minutes worth of drivel, painful to watch but necessary.

It was mostly Palin, but also the pastor when she went to the church in June.

Scary. And yes, that is from you resident religious reader and blogger.

To them, I would be an apostate anyway.

Scary scary scary.
9/8/08, 2:30 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
I was raised Methodist, so when certain kinds of evangelicals talk about "The Holy Spirit" my reaction is, yeah I get it. I get it even if they handle rattlesnakes. It's when they intellectualize that I become befuddled. This is religion that defies rationality & so gets weirder & weirder the more its adherents try to explain themselves.
9/8/08, 3:56 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
Somehow I doubt Governor Palin's minister spewed hateful anti-American, Anti-White, Anti-Semantic sermons and "God Damn America" in a church of God! If he did, I doubt she would have listened to it for 20 years!

"ABC NEWS" GETS THE FIRST GOVERNOR PALIN INTERVIEW! WHOOPEE!

I WISH SHE HAD TOLD ALL MAINSTREAM 'BIASED' MEDIA TO KISS OFF, AFTER THE WAY THEY WENT AFTER HER FAMILY; HOWEVER, SHE IS A STRONG AMERICAN AND WILL DO FINE.

Poor Obama --- he’s resorted to calling Sarah a LIAR. This is going to get good sooner than we think. Last week, he sent "30" lawyers to Alaska to vet Governor Palin! Why? The DNC and biased media never vetted their 'golden boy' --- if they had, Hillary would be the Democratic candidate.

GOVERNOR PALIN HAS ACTUALLY WORKED FOR THE PEOPLE (AS MAYOR AND AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALASKA) AND NOW, OBAMA IS RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH IT’S HEAD CUT OFF. WHY IS HE SO SCARED? HE’S COMING ACROSS LIKE A BLUNDERING IDIOT. GOVERNOR PALIN IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT --- JOHN McCAIN IS.

GOVENOR SARAH PALIN IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AND OFFERS A CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN! IF, GOD FORBID, SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO SENATOR McCAIN, I KNOW GOVERNOR PALIN WILL CHOOSE A GOOD, STRONG VP TO HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

REGARDING THE “BRIDGE TO NOWHERE” ISSUE:

GOVERNOR PALIN DID NOT ASK FOR THE BRIDGE — NOR DID SHE ASK FOR THE MONEY! SINCE SHE HAS BEEN “GOVERNOR” OF ALASKA, SHE HAS NOT SUPPORTED THIS BRIDGE.

GOVERNORS AND STATE OFFICIALS “DON’T” ASK FOR FEDERAL MONEY (EARMARK MONEY OR PORK) — THAT’S DONE BY “SENATORS” AND “CONGRESSMEN”! WE NEED TO REPLACE THE DO-NOTHING DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS!

TOUCHE!

I’M VOTING FOR THE HONORABLE JOHN S. McCAIN IN NOVEMBER.
9/8/08, 4:34 PM  
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