In '05 Video, Pastor Anoints Palin, Says Christians Should "Infiltrate" Gov't, Schools, Business

[maddezmom]

In '05 Video, Pastor Anoints Palin, Says Christians Should "Infiltrate" Government, Schools, Business

"Muthee exclaimed, "We come against the spirit of witchcraft! We come against the python spirits!" Then, a local pastor took the mic from Muthee and added, "We stomp on the heads of the enemy!" - Journalist Max Blumenthal, describing Palin-anointer Thomas Muthee's appearance at the Wasilla Assembly of God, September 20, 2008

Despite concerted efforts, disturbing evidence pointing towards the likely nature of Sarah Palin's religious beliefs continues to emerge. Yesterday "scrubbed" footage, from a 2005 "anointing" of then-Alaska gubernatorial contender Sarah Palin, resurfaced on the website of the net-based alternative news service The Irregular Times. The footage showed Kenyan minister Thomas Muthee not only praying over and blessing Sarah Palin, to advance her bid for the Alaska governorship and protect Palin from a "spirit of witchcraft", but, prior to the blessing, Muthee gave a seven to eight minute speech in which he called on believing Christians to "infiltrate" a number of key areas of secular society including Banking and finance, schools and education, media, politics and government.

Thomas Muthee claims to be able to dramatically cut crime by expelling "territorial" demons, but Muthee is no isolated crank. Rather, he is an influential figure in an increasingly powerful but little studied, emergent strain of world Christian fundamentalism bent on achieving political power and cleansing the world of "evil'.


Terminology Thomas Muthee used in his 2005 "anointing" speech, his reference to the "Seven Kingdoms" which Christians should "infiltrate", can be traced to an ambitious and militant recent movement within Christianity that at least several of Palin's churches appear to be in, known as the New Apostolic Reformation or (more broadly) The Third Wave. A recent series of articles and short video documentaries at the website Talk To Action, which analyzes the intersection of religion and politics, has focused on connections of Palin's churches to that movement and begun to map out the barely-noticed yet rapidly growing, international move among fundamentalist Christianity, away from Christian denominationalism and towards a type of hyper-fundamentalism bent on achieving worldly power.

more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/in-05-video-pastor-anoint_b_128921.html

[DesertFlower]

1. they want to turn this country

into a christian theocracy.

[baldguy]

2. in·fil·trate - to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively...

...usually for subversive purposes

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infiltrate


In sociology and politics, infiltration may refer to entryism. For example, organization A's members furtively join organization B so that A can try to take over B

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiltration


Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely.

In situations where the organisation being "entered" is hostile to entryism, the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge to hide the fact that they are, in fact, an organisation in their own right. In the case of the Militant tendency, this was done by claiming that the tendency was in fact simply a newspaper, Militant, its editorial board and readers. Militant was open about its support for Trotskyism and revolutionary socialism. Other entryist groups have gone to the extent of hiding both their political views and their organisational existence.

Entryism does not involve dissolving the small organisation into the larger one. Entryism is often (but not always) done secretly and often in organisations run on democratic centralist lines. Entryism is seen by some as a logical conclusion from Leninist political theory which postulates that a "revolutionary vanguard" can successfully foment a revolution within a larger capitalist society, but according to some, the strategy of entryism is as old as politics itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism

Just in case anyone suffered under the mistaken assumption that this tactic is benign.

[hootinholler]

6. WHat do you think brought on all the school board cirriculum issues lately.

Usually one or two get elected to a school board and it's off to the races.

-Hoot

[magellan]

3. Good (rhetorical) question by KO: why isn't this being covered like Rev. Wright?

I think most Americans would be very interested to know Palin has a pastor who believes in literal witch hunts.

[tanyev]

4. No, not the python spirits!

[hootinholler]

5. Olberman didn't mention the prelude.

Wonder why?

-Hoot