lundi 8 septembre 2008

If Jeremiah Wright is fair game, let's take a look inside Sarah Palin's church, shall we?

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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