Extreme Christianism - re Palin - Andrew Sullivan 25-OCT-2008

[Pluvious]

Man, the rest of the electorate needs to wake the hell up !!!

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The NYT has a very helpful piece today on Sarah Palin's theology. Money quote:

Critics say the goal of the spiritual warfare movement is to create a theocracy. Bruce Wilson, a researcher for Talk2Action, a Web site that tracks religious groups, said: “One of the imperatives of the movement is to achieve worldly power, including political control. Then you can more effectively drive out the demons. The ultimate goal is to purify the earth.”

This is now a conservative notion: purifying the earth? It's striking to me, after all the legitimate interest in Trinity United and Obama, that Palin's deep and long relationship withe the movement known as "spiritual warfare" has not been more discussed. Jeremiah Wright has had exponentially more air time than Pastor Muthee, and yet Wright is a milque-toast establishmentarian compared to the witchcraft-believing theocrat who has personally blessed Palin and now dominates her home-town church:

Ms. Palin has had long associations with religious leaders who practice a particularly assertive and urgent brand of Pentecostalism known as “spiritual warfare.” Its adherents believe that demonic forces can colonize specific geographic areas and individuals, and that “spiritual warriors” must “battle” them to assert God’s control, using prayer and evangelism. The movement’s fixation on demons, its aggressiveness and its leaders’ claims to exalted spiritual authority have troubled even some Pentecostal Christians...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/extreme-christi.html

[Hamlette]

1. my favorite from today was his comment on another post

the post was about research into a drug that will allow people to forget unpleasant memories. Sully said: Palin won't haunt me for ever?

He hates her with a passion not seen anywhere else.

[Pluvious]

2. He's not alone...

...in needing some of that !

Can you just imagine if she became President,
what that power - with her hubris - would result in ???

* the mind boggles *

[El Fuego]

3. Seems like a lot of trouble for them, if they're just going to get Raptured.

So let's say their Jihad is successful, and they stage a coup and establish a theocracy. Then the whole government just goes *poof* and disappears one day. Wouldn't it kind of have been all for naught?

And what about those in the government who don't get Raptured with their buddies. Won't it be kind of embarrassing for them? How can we have confidence in politicians who don't get Raptured?