2009
This is a rather frightening story – that gays are possessed by demons. This is Spanish Inquisition stuff. I have updated my post on Christianity as a Hate Group in order to reflect this new information. I urge every one to read this article, which can be found here as well as the article on TheCall – a call to action against secular society by extremist Christians. Every day I encounter people who laugh off the idea of theocracy as absurd. It is not.
We would all of us do well to educate ourselves and to keep abreast of this threat. Watch the Maddow piece above. If Engle’s voice doesn’t give you the chills and have you seeing Hitler, I don’t know what will.
There are many useful sources of information out there to further educate yourself. Here are a couple of places to start:
- TheocracyWatch.org is maintained at Cornell University in Ithaca – don’t mind the appearance of the site – it’s the information that’s critical.
- GodsOwnParty is dedicated to an extremist Assembly of God type theology held by Sarah Palin, and which is far more of a threat than you might think. Though I’m freelancing there, I’m not plugging it because I write for them – I write for them because it’s an important cause.
- New Apostolic Reformation. This is an article on NAR (Palin’s brand of “Christianity” in the ApologeticsIndex. This is a brand of Christianity even the ultra-extreme Assemblies of God have condemned.
If you want more, Google “NAR” or “New Apostolic Reformation.”
As I’ve said here many times before, we’re all in this together.
With Biblical Dominionism, we are talking Old Testament, folks. These people want to “purge” secular society. If you know anything at all about Christian history, you know this is not a good thing. And this is not simply a few fanatic fools – members of Congress attended the prayercast in question: Senators Jim DeMint and Sam Brownback, and House Representatives Michelle Bachmann and Randy Forbes. Members of government.
Whether they’re trying to use the dominionists or the dominionists are using them or they’re using each other, really doesn’t matter. People once laughed at Hitler too. Remember that. Because they seem bizarre or extreme fringe to us does not mean they are not a threat, particularly with members of Congress endorsing them.
Lou Engle?…The man’s a freak!
I like the way he called to all sane people to kill (martyr) right-wing christian fanatics!..Does he have a death wish?..Oh yeah, sorry…lol…he’s got a business class ticket to the pearly gates!
As for a 2nd civil war…..for health care?! FFS! I bet the majority of Americans who don’t want it are the rich ones who refuse to subsidise the ones who could never afford health insurance.
As far as I’ve been told, we in the UK got the National Health System because soldiers returning from the battlefields of WW2 had seen that the Russians had the system in place. As the people complained so much, it was given as a kind of ‘reward’.
And that’s the other thing- the Russians had it and they were Communists…therefore, I also reckon that is another reason they don’t want it…commie ideas don’t wash well in the USA.
BUT…the only examples of communism we have today are the terrors of the old Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, etc. Corrupt and distorted. Far, far removed from the original ideas in the document set out by Marx and Engels.
Sorry to go off on a slight tangent, but it all links up, I think.
Stu, yeah, he’s a little to the Right of FAR RIGHT lol. Crazy as they come. But 32,000 believers and four members of Congress showed up so we can’t ignore the loon.
And you’re right – the Right-wing here is all about the commie threat still – Joe McCarthy (if you’ve heard of him) is still Ann Coulter’s hero – he saved the US from the Red Menace (now embodied by Obama and the nasty old liberals.
From the linked article on the NAR:
They claim they hear directly from God, and many claim that Jesus visits them in person. Like the true biblical apostles who established the early church, these so called restored apostles believe they are called to lay the foundation and government for the new Kingdom (one world church).
If they thought that they were Napoleon, they’d be sent to the funny farm. I wonder what the mental health legislation is like in their states.
Sorry, should have closed the italics after the second paragraph. The final paragraph is my comment.
Funny, I saw the last paragraph as your words even with the italics. It sounded like you. The thing is, the Assembly of God, which condemns them, isn’t much better – it’s a matter of degrees more than actual differences. Alaska is the north quarter so through there evil will try to come in – they do the same thing in the city where I live – Bibles in hand.