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Nevilledog

(51,122 posts)
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 04:53 PM Aug 2022

Underreported And Massive Theocratic Movement Joins Forces With Michael Flynn And Roger Stone

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/08/underreported-and-massive-theocratic-movement-joins-forces-with-michael-flynn-and-roger-stone/


On July 1, 2022, inside a packed Georgia arena, four religious leaders stood on stage as they recited a blood chilling Prayer Declaration called the “Watchman Decree”:

Whereas, we have been given legal power from heaven and now exercise our authority, Whereas, we are God’s ambassadors and spokespeople over the earth. Whereas, through the power of God we are the world influencers. Whereas, because of our covenant with God, we are equipped and delegated by him to destroy every attempted advance of the enemy, we make our declarations: … 3. We decree that our judicial system will issue rulings that are biblical and constitutional. 4. We declare that we stand against wokeness, the occult, and every evil attempt against our nation. 5. We declare that we now take back our God-given freedoms, according to our Constitution. 6. We decree that we take back and permanently control positions of influence and leadership in each of the “Seven Mountains.”




A video of the recitation (shown above) was viewed more than 3 million times on Twitter. In the replies, many people expressed horror at what they had seen. Although few were aware, they had just witnessed the fruits of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The NAR is a rapidly accelerating and dangerously under-reported worldwide Christian authoritarian movement. It practices faith healing and exorcism and promotes dominionism, a belief that Christians must take control of government, business and culture in order for Jesus to return to earth. The men on stage included NAR apostles Dutch Sheets (who wrote the decree) and Lance Wallhau, along with two close colleagues, pastors Mario Murillo and Hank Kunneman. The fifth man, pastor Gene Bailey, hosted the event for his show Flashpoint on Victory TV, a Christian network that platforms the NAR and pro-Trump Make America Great (MAGA) influencers.




Disgraced former Trump National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general with an intelligence and special operations background, has appeared on Flashpoint several times and seems to have formed an alliance with the NAR. Longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone, who works with Flynn and has ties to violent extremists, embraces the NAR as well. He, Flynn, and other like-minded MAGA influencers and Christian authoritarian zealots are coming to Pennsylvania for the final stop of the so-called “Reawaken America Tour” (RAT). The tour was founded by Clay Clarkson, a far right podcast host from Oklahoma, and is sponsored by NAR apostle Steve Strang through Charisma News, one of Strang’s media companies. Several NAR apostles have spoken on the RAT. Spooky Nook Sports in Mannheim is hosting the event on October 21 and 22.

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Underreported And Massive Theocratic Movement Joins Forces With Michael Flynn And Roger Stone (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2022 OP
Domestic terrorist gathering. nt Quixote1818 Aug 2022 #1
Why is this criminal still a Retired US. Army General? TheBlackAdder Aug 2022 #3
Excellent question. orangecrush Aug 2022 #23
It's well past time he was recalled to active duty and Court Martialed. A HERETIC I AM Aug 2022 #40
He proves that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron COL Mustard Aug 2022 #46
Ain't that the truth! A HERETIC I AM Aug 2022 #51
Because Nothing Shouts GOD SQUAD like something with Michael Flynn Associated To It. TheBlackAdder Aug 2022 #2
And Roger "Swinger" Stone Nevilledog Aug 2022 #4
You mean, lightening didn't strike?? Wow! nt Samrob Aug 2022 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Baked Potato Aug 2022 #5
You do mean tithe malaise Aug 2022 #15
They want far more than a lousy 10%. SergeStorms Aug 2022 #32
Roger Stone, fer Pete's sake!!! He's about as religious as yesterday's pickled herring. DFW Aug 2022 #6
This info should be spread far and wide. dalton99a Aug 2022 #7
Fascist Fucking Sociopaths. Cha Aug 2022 #8
They want to be the Christofascists Taliban. flying_wahini Aug 2022 #9
I don't believe Stone has ever been a Christian of any kind.. whathehell Aug 2022 #31
they are scary and totally fucking crazy rurallib Aug 2022 #10
Dominionist Christian Taliban flex their muscles vlyons Aug 2022 #11
Follow the money. COL Mustard Aug 2022 #48
lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? vlyons Aug 2022 #52
Our freedoms are not god given Deuxcents Aug 2022 #12
Betty Bowers suggests referring to Nationalist Christians as NatC's for short Ponietz Aug 2022 #24
TFG's gate keepers... spanone Aug 2022 #13
At what point does the USA view these groups like Jim Jones' People's Temple? PufPuf23 Aug 2022 #14
"Reawaken America Tour" aka "RAT"... keep_left Aug 2022 #17
I believe the full name is Abolishinist Aug 2022 #19
I see what you did there! keep_left Aug 2022 #20
+100 ... reACTIONary Aug 2022 #29
Describes them perfectly. I suppose Ilsa Aug 2022 #39
Thanks! I couldn't quickly think of an E-word, but that's perfect! Abolishinist Aug 2022 #47
To me, these people are definitive proof that... dchill Aug 2022 #18
I declare this nonsense is the opposite of the Biblical notion of prayer grantcart Aug 2022 #21
Wooooooo! orangecrush Aug 2022 #22
Why are they so afraid of charging Flynn with the crimes he has committed??? Scalded Nun Aug 2022 #25
great question. I can only conclude there are no rules. Evolve Dammit Aug 2022 #41
Holy crap Farmer-Rick Aug 2022 #26
Jerry Falwell was saying this sort of thing decades ago. sop Aug 2022 #27
They will never stop. They need to be crushed. Joinfortmill Aug 2022 #28
So the "Seven Mountain" mention is very interesting. Collimator Aug 2022 #30
Evil draped in the flag, thumping the bible Martin Eden Aug 2022 #33
The crazies are trying to take over they are no longer underground FloridaBlues Aug 2022 #34
Just feeling the love of Jesus. czarjak Aug 2022 #35
They want us to be scared. It's their biggest kink. I say let's not be afraid. Saboburns Aug 2022 #36
Whereas, prove it. July Aug 2022 #37
Christofascists on a mission MyMission Aug 2022 #38
Thanks for your post. Sounds right. They are dangerous. Domestic terrorists. Evolve Dammit Aug 2022 #42
This has been around for a while but always seems to fly under the radar screen lees1975 Aug 2022 #43
Two of the most ungodly men you'd ever want to meet Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 #44
They qualify as a domestic enemy, something the oath to the Constitution SHOULD protect against. n/t AntiFascist Aug 2022 #45
''fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy...'' Inherit The Wind - Spencer Tracy Speech Donkees Aug 2022 #49
They can't be Pro-Constitution and want RELIGION to run the gov't. Their system is a LIE in itself. TeamProg Aug 2022 #50
"Whereas we have been given legal power from heaven..." BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #53

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
40. It's well past time he was recalled to active duty and Court Martialed.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:10 PM
Aug 2022

More than one current and former military individuals have said so.

Fucking asshole is a disgrace.


COL Mustard

(5,906 posts)
46. He proves that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:40 PM
Aug 2022

As much as "Jumbo Shrimp" or "Airline Food" except it's more serious when Intel goes wrong.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
51. Ain't that the truth!
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:54 PM
Aug 2022

Was he a religious nutjob before he got in, or did that happen during his time in the Army?

It's of little import at this juncture.

I am beginning to think these RWNJ's are in for a rude awakening, when the majority of rational Americans finally wakes up and pushes back against these stuck-in-the-12th-century assholes. They won't like it one bit.


I did say it before, though. I wish I had saved the threads I said it in, but back during Mr. Obama's presidency I said that even though we had made some very good progress on the social front, the other side won't go quietly. And it will get a lot worse before it gets a lot better, and here we are.

They want this country to be a 100% Evangelical Church going population and to look like Ward and June Cleaver and Jim and Margaret Anderson (Father Knows Best) are every family on every block and the nearest brown or black people live "on the other side of the tracks" where they belong, dammit.

These people represent a shrinking demographic and they know it, and they won't accept that reality, not one bit, oh no.

Response to Nevilledog (Original post)

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
32. They want far more than a lousy 10%.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:42 PM
Aug 2022

They won't settle for anything less than 25% at a minimum. These are the new and improved U.S. greed-heads. Get used to it.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
6. Roger Stone, fer Pete's sake!!! He's about as religious as yesterday's pickled herring.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 05:12 PM
Aug 2022

Just listen/watch! (unless you name is Molly Malone--then you might want to skip this )

flying_wahini

(6,606 posts)
9. They want to be the Christofascists Taliban.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 05:26 PM
Aug 2022

They think Gawd put them in charge to dominate? Hmmmm.

The bigger they are…

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
31. I don't believe Stone has ever been a Christian of any kind..
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:42 PM
Aug 2022

Fascism comes in all creeds and NO creeds at all

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
11. Dominionist Christian Taliban flex their muscles
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 05:29 PM
Aug 2022

maybe Flynn is a Dominionist, but Roger Stone? No way. They are merely jumping on the Christo-Fascist bandwagon to posture and pose and manipulate.

Well it worked for Reagan, Nixon, both Bushes, and TFG, so why not keep pushing it?

Power, power, power, and more power.

Ya know there's more than a few of us that aren't interested in belonging to their church, or any church for that matter.

Deuxcents

(16,248 posts)
12. Our freedoms are not god given
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 05:32 PM
Aug 2022

They were fought n died for since the beginning of our Republic. And still are today. These self righteous christofasists are determined to take us back to biblical times. Nope. Find an obscure place n move the cult there..

Ponietz

(2,985 posts)
24. Betty Bowers suggests referring to Nationalist Christians as NatC's for short
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:08 PM
Aug 2022

Cool, same as Lt. Aldo Raine pronounced it.

PufPuf23

(8,791 posts)
14. At what point does the USA view these groups like Jim Jones' People's Temple?
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 05:34 PM
Aug 2022

These groups put common members and the public and nation at risk.

They should be stomped as do Flynn and Stone.

Recall Stone led the Brooks Brothers Riot to stop voting in the successful GOP 2000 0POTUS election.

Abolishinist

(1,301 posts)
47. Thanks! I couldn't quickly think of an E-word, but that's perfect!
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:40 PM
Aug 2022
Reawaken America Tour For Uniting Christian Kooky Evangelical Republicans

OR...
Reawaken America Tour For Uniting Christian Kooky Evangelical RepublicanS

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
26. Holy crap
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:20 PM
Aug 2022

Those ignorant fools act like they talk directly to god.

They think people will believe them when they say they know what god wants? You don't know, but they know what god wants because they talk to god. I thought god was moral....what they think, or what they made up, about a magical being in the sky is a long long way on the other side of moral. It is pure evil.

The god these crazies imagine they are talking to are some really immoral creatures. Are they sure it's a god they are talking to? Sounds more like the Devil himself.

Are a lot of people falling for this obvious evil?

Religion is really dangerous if people believe this crap.

sop

(10,193 posts)
27. Jerry Falwell was saying this sort of thing decades ago.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:29 PM
Aug 2022

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." - 1976

"Hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!" - 1979

Collimator

(1,639 posts)
30. So the "Seven Mountain" mention is very interesting.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:39 PM
Aug 2022

Back in my Born-Again days, it was a common concept to accept that the "Whore of Babylon" mentioned in the Book of Revelation (it's singular, people) was the Catholic Church. The fact that there are seven mountains mentioned in the text was believed to be a reference to the seven hills found around Rome.

Now, I am no longer a believer, obviously, but I get a kick out of the fact that Jared Kushner's family owned a property in NYC with the street number 666 in its address. And the ubiquitous MAGA hats just play right into all that "Mark of the Beast" on all the foreheads of those deceived by him.

Fun stuff--but only in a way--in others ways it is scary as f-ck.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
34. The crazies are trying to take over they are no longer underground
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 06:46 PM
Aug 2022

Michael Flynn has set his sights on taking over the Republican Party in Florida. Trying to take over the co- chair of the party now that he moved to Sarasota county last year.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
36. They want us to be scared. It's their biggest kink. I say let's not be afraid.
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:01 PM
Aug 2022

These people are bullies. Fuck them.

Bullies, not the Sardaukar Imperial Guard.

Being afraid of these mouth-breathing potato-heads is the worst thing to do. They want to intimidate us, don't let them.

Do they want to end our Democracy, hell yes they do. Are they attacking our Democracy, hell yes they are. I am, however, not buying that our American Democracy is hanging by a thread. We are told this daily, but I think that's total horseshit. Not hard to figure which side are the Patriots. Patriots, not flag lapel wearers, who own three pairs of American flag pants.

I'm not naive. Republicans, their little minds are broken. They not only say they want to get rid of the FBI, IRS, the Constitution, the entire American government. They mean it. And are actively working to do it. I won't allow that, you won't allow that, we won't allow that. Whatever it takes.

Good Americans, Democrats, us, me and you... we aren't just going to shrug our shoulders, say golly gee, roll over and play dead.

MyMission

(1,850 posts)
38. Christofascists on a mission
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:03 PM
Aug 2022

Very scary.

I've encountered many Christians going off on mission trips over the many years I've worked in a store that sells Army Navy stuff (duffel bags are a big item for them). Usually they're helping a community abroad and trying to demonstrate christan charity and spread their word.

My handle here was chosen because I was and am on a totally different type of mission; one to fight against oppression, racism, injustice, inhumanity, and help keep this country out of the control of the christofascists and other bad people.

They are declaring a jihad, a holy war. They are a militant minority. I remember learning about the crusades, holy wars, destroying or converting the infidels and non-believers. This is really disturbing, although I believe many Christians will reject this, there are too many who might embrace this view. As I write this it occurs to me that it may split along the lines of the abortion issue; the rabid right to life sects are this group of christofascists. More moderate christians would not embrace this. Just the most radicalized.

Christofascists! A cult and a movement! Extremely dangerous!


lees1975

(3,861 posts)
43. This has been around for a while but always seems to fly under the radar screen
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:17 PM
Aug 2022

because most people, including most Christians, don't know how to call it out for what it is.

[link:https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-pseudo-christian-threat-to-both.html|

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
53. "Whereas we have been given legal power from heaven..."
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 08:15 PM
Aug 2022

Says who asswipe - you? This bunch of bozos failed at the first hurdle.

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