Prayerapalooza: The Response at Reliant Stadium With Rick Perry and a Packed House

[kentauros]

Prayerapalooza: The Response at Reliant Stadium With Rick Perry and a Packed House
By Craig Hlavaty
Sat., Aug. 6 2011 at 8:28 PM

Our country's credit rating was downgraded just less than a day before The Response event at Reliant Stadium opened its doors. The world is scary and getting more so by the day. People are afraid of the future, like we are living in a sci-fi flick, and those that don't know what else to do but look upward, pray. For the rest, they look inward. Options are scarce, you know.

It just so happens that the 30,000 Christians and spirit-minded have a mainline to God and following the lead of Governor Rick Perry, took to Reliant on Saturday to raise their hands to the sky, which was obscured by a closed roof.

Following the instructions I had seen on the Response Web site and its literature, I started fasting on Friday evening after polishing off a man-sized meal from Popeye's. Maybe I would gather some sort of insight from not taking in food for 24 hours, and touch a glimpse of clarity.

Once I got into the stadium Saturday morning, I realized that most of the concession stands were open, and what was a fast for some was just a loose rule for most. People eating stale nachos covered in canned cheese while intermittently praying. I can get behind that.

...more at link...

I know it's from Saturday; I didn't think about this thing the whole weekend until I saw the blog this morning. And, predictably, the RW-Christians are all over the comments portion.

[demguy72340]

1. delete

[sonias]

2. Five Points About Rick Perry's Prayer Rally Not Yet in Mainstream Press

Talk to Action blog 8/8/11

Five Points About Rick Perry's Prayer Rally Not Yet in Mainstream Press

(snip)

1. Significance of the 50-State "Prayer Warrior" Communication Networks

An analysis in the Washington Post read, "... organizing a prayer gathering in your home state isn't the same thing as winning votes in places like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina." This article does not take into account the NAR's 50-state network of "prayer warriors." At the moment there are three different national networks under the authority of Dutch Sheets, Cindy Jacobs, and John Benefiel. Both of the last two endorsed Perry's event.

There are well developed networks in Iowa and South Carolina, headed by Katherine Watsey and Frank Seignious, respectively. If "anointed" by the apostles as the candidate, Perry will automatically have a structure in place in these states in addition to his own campaign operation. I think that anointing may have taken place on Saturday.

2. Coded But Blatant Political Messaging

The political messages were blatant but "for the choir" only. Perry walked out onto the stage and gave his speech with C. L. Jackson and Apostle Alice Patterson by his side. There's a big story here.

C.L. Jackson is a prominent African American pastor and was a leading Houston Democrat. He publicly announced his embrace of the Republican Party at a 2002 Texas State Republican convention after seeing racial "reconciliation" activities (developed by NAR leaders) at the prayer meeting prior to the event. Since then he has worked to promote Perry to African American pastors with the aid of David Barton's revisionist histories that portray liberal Democrats as racist and conservative evangelicals as the champions of civil rights. (I'm not as familiar with Iowa, but in South Carolina there is a very aggressive campaign promoting this revisionist history to African Americans.)

:puke::puke::puke:

[sonias]

3. Rick Perry: Preacher, Prophet... President?

Texas Observer 8/7/11
Rick Perry: Preacher, Prophet... President?

As he took the stage for his sermon, Rick Perry appeared positively beatific in the glow of 30,000 primed for his appearance at The Response. Up until the eve of the event, Perry had played coy about his role. Maybe he wouldn't even speak, he hinted last week as waves of criticism buffeted the event. But there he was, a perfectly-coiffed, chiseled politician addressing the evangelical rank and file. Before he began, Perry turned to hug Alice Patterson, a self-proclaimed apostle from San Antonio who believes the Democratic Party is controlled by "an invisible network of evil comprising an unholy structure" released by the demon Jezebel.

(snip)

"His agenda is not a political agenda. His agenda is a salvation agenda." Perry added: "He's wise enough not to be affiliated with any political party. Or for that matter, he's wise enough not to be affiliated with any man-made institutions."

Perry then read at length from the Book of Joel, Chapter 2 – a piece of Scripture favored by the New Apostolic Reformation movement, who see in it not just a call for a nation to repent but also a blueprint for End Times warriors.

End Times warriors? :wtf:

[PDittie]

4. I was there

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2011/08/scene-inside-and-outside-reliant.html

[kentauros]

5. Very good!

I liked your account :D

How did it feel to be there, amongst the "enemy"?

[PDittie]

6. By turns

Hideous and amusing.

[sonias]

7. Excellent reporting

Thanks PDittie for going behind enemy lines.

The Christian mosh pit sounds surreal. Didn't they know that was one of Satan's tools? I thougt all dancing was off limits to Southern Baptists.:eyes:

[sonias]

8. The Mainstream Media's Shallow Coverage of The Response

Texas Observer 8/9/11

The Mainstream Media's Shallow Coverage of The Response

When evangelist Don Finto took the stage at The Response on Saturday and basically called for the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity, I looked around the press room to see if anyone's ears perked up.

"Today, Israel is not only back in the land but they are coming to their own Messiah," Finto said. "Tens, even hundreds of thousands, of Jewish people in the last decades have come to their Messiah. And so Lord we pray for the revival around the world and for Israel to come to their own Messiah."

Finto then beckoned Marty Waldman, a messianic Jewish rabbi from Dallas, onto stage. Waldman didn't say a word as Finto explained that "Marty's a Jewish man who's the son of Holocaust survivors but he's come to acknowledge his own Messiah."

To be clear, Finto is talking about Jesus Christ when he refers to "their own Messiah." Evangelists like Finto believe that Jews will play a key role in the End Times and that Christians can help usher in that epoch by introducing Jews to Jesus. As laid out quite clearly on the website of the Toward Jerusalem Council II, an organization on whose executive board Finto serves:

Nuts! :crazy:

[sonias]

9. Forrest Wilder on Rachel Maddow show

Great interview segment by Texas Observer writer Forrest Wilder on the crazy makeup of crazies at Prayerapalooza.

Right off their home page in the lower left column. I couldn't link to it directly. Worth the watch if you didn't catch it on Rachel's show.

Watch Forrest Wilder on The Rachel Maddow Show discuss Rick Perry's relationship with the New Apostolic Reformation Movement.

:kick:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. My offspring was there protesting.

Her sign said HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE.


:D

[TxVietVet]

11. It's a conservanazi christian family value.