Palin's extremist longtime pastor: Jesus "operated from . . . war mode."

[pnwmom]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

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The church runs a number of ministries providing help to poor neighborhoods, care for children in need, and general community services. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war "contending for your faith;" and said that Jesus "operated from that position of war mode."

It is impossible to determine how much Wasilla Assembly of God has shaped Palin's thinking. She was baptized there at the age of 12 and attended the church for most of her adult life. When Palin was inaugurated as governor, the founding pastor of the church delivered the invocation. In 2002, Palin moved her family to a nondenominational church, but she continues to worship at a related Assembly of God church in Juneau.

Moreover, she "has maintained a friendship with Wasilla Assembly of God and has attended various conferences and special meetings here," Kalnins' office said in a statement. "As for her personal beliefs," the statement added, "Governor Palin is well able to speak for herself on those issues."

Clearly, however, Palin views the church as the source of an important, if sometimes politically explosive, message. "Having grown up here, and having little kids grow up here also, this is such a special, special place," she told the congregation in June. "What comes from this church I think has great destiny."

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[yardwork]

1. Is this the same church that Palin gave $1.5 million in taxpayer money to?

[pnwmom]

5. That's a really good question -- I don't know. n/t

[bunnies]

2. I think I'm experiencing scandal overload.

So many at once I cant keep em straight!

[JVS]

3. Don't you all remember Jesus' last supper with his general staff down in the bunker?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Pqqb909-Q

Oh wait, that was Hitler. Jesus ate at in a garden. What a fucking pussy! I'd better tell the family that we're starting a new religion. Anyone know a good military collectibles store?

[zbdent]

7. You wouldn't believe the trouble they had to go through to cover up

the self-inflicted gunshot wound and get him to "die" on the cross ...

I mean, the cops were closing in, his best bud had ratted him out for a few bucks ...

[zeemike]

4. That is the most blasphemes thing I have ever heard.

And goes contrary to every thing Jesus said and did.

[invictus]

6. What a nutjob! n/t

[skooooo]

8. Yep, Jesus was all about war, chaos, and ...

... the murder of innocents.

[Left Is Write]

9. The Prince Of Peace "operated from that position of war mode"?

[TheKentuckian]

10. The super nutjob calvacade keeps rolling

I guess Reverend Wright will be absent from the proceedings from now on?

[medicswife]

11. ROFL And Alaska is going to be the new land of

Manna and Honey after the end of days and in that article they also said that one of the pastors learned in a "prophecy" that Sarah was going to run for Governor.