MRFF To Demand That Pentagon Immediately Cease All Connections To Obama-Bashing Ministry

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/11/9/83252/5402/Front_Page/MRFF_To_Demand_That_Pentagon_Immediately_Cease_All_Connections_To_Obama_Bashing_Ministry

Violations of IRS regulations prohibiting 501(c)3 tax-exempt organizations from endorsing candidates and attempting to influence the political process were rampant in this year's election. These violations, however, are likely to be forgotten now that the election is over, and I, for one, am determined not to let this happen. So, over the next few weeks, I'll be writing about some of the worst offenders, and doing what I can to ensure that these lawbreakers are held accountable for their actions. Topping the list is a ministry that, as Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), I've been watching for months -- Revival Fires Ministries.
topic: Dominionism in US Military

Each month in our online newsletter, MRFF highlights a "Violation on Video." As the title of this feature suggests, these are videos uncovered by MRFF in which a member of our military is caught violating military regulations. This month's video stars Navy Chaplain LCDR Brian K. Waite, speaking at the 2008 Revival Fires campmeeting in Branson, Missouri. Back in June, in a post titled Christian Ministry Attacks Obama and Lies About Bibles For Our Troops { http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/christian-ministry-attack_b_107059.html?page=2&show_comment_id=13686418#comment_13686418 }, I wrote about Revival Fires' connection to the Pentagon, the attacks on Barack Obama by the ministry's founder, Cecil Todd, and the lies of Todd's son, Tim Todd, about Bibles for our troops. Since writing that post, I've acquired a video of the Revival Fires campmeeting, clips from which make up the video at the end of this post. It should be clear to anyone viewing this video why MRFF will be demanding that the military take action against Chaplain Waite, and that the Pentagon immediately cease to have any association with Revival Fires.

MRFF's investigation of LCDR Waite began last winter, when one of our volunteers stumbled upon a photo of this officer in uniform, along with his letter endorsing Revival Fires, on the ministry's website, a discovery made in the course of gathering information on the Pentagon's involvement in the large scale shipment to and distribution in Iraq and Afghanistan of Bibles carrying official Department of Defense seals on their covers. Revival Fires, "at the request of the Chief Chaplains of the Pentagon," has been shipping Bibles to Iraq, via military airlift, since 2003, and, according to a ministry press release, this "full Bible is designed and authorized by the Chief Chaplains of the Pentagon."

The investigation of Chaplain Waite turned up that his educational credentials consisted primarily of diploma mill degrees, and that he had written a virulently anti-Muslim book in 2002, which was pulled off the market when it was revealed that much of its content was plagiarized and that Waite had faked two of the endorsements on its back cover. Waite, who, as you will see in the video below, claims to have left his mega-church in Oklahoma to re-enter the military as a result of 9/11, didn't actually decide to do this until the spring of 2002, which was, coincidentally, right after his plagiarism scandal became public.

More at the link:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/11/9/83252/5402

[BrklynLiberal]

1. "Dominionism is the Military" - What a horrific prospect. It brings to mind the crazy general

in "Dr. Strangelove"

[sam sarrha]

2. we have Dominionism in the white house, that's why they eliminate tax'n the Rich. >>LINK>>

it is a sin to tax the rich.. wealth is a sign of gods favor of a man.. taking gods gift is a sin..

http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html
"snip...Leo Strauss was born in 1899 and died in 1973. ... He is most famous for resuscitating Machiavelli and introducing his principles as the guiding philosophy of the neo-conservative movement. ... More than any other man, Strauss breathed upon conservatism, inspiring it to rise from its atrophied condition and its natural dislike of change and to embrace an unbounded new political ideology that rides on the back of a revolutionary steed, hailing even radical change; hence the name Neo-Conservatives.

Significantly, Dominionism is a form of Social Darwinism.<48> It inherently includes the religious belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is, out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations, wealth, in and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval on men and nations whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s disapproval.

(It was not until I read this article that I realized that this is a fundamental tenet of Dominionists.

Worldly wealth and power are signs of God's favor -- to attempt to limit or decrease one's wealth and power is to disrespect God.

On the contrary, God's elect on Earth are called upon to increase their wealth and power.

It is not sufficient for a man to be a millionaire, or for a country to have sovereignty within its borders -- a man must strive to increase his wealth as much as possible, and a Dominionist government's behavior toward its neighbors must be "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity".

Furthermore, any attempt to decrease a person's or a country's wealth and power -- to take from the rich to give to the poor, to reduce military spending and power -- is a direct attack on God.)

If “Secular Humanists are the greatest threat to Christianity the world has ever known,” as theologian Francis Schaeffer claimed, then who are the Humanists? According to Dominionists, humanists are the folks who allow or encourage licentious behavior in America. They are the undisciplined revelers.

Put all the enemies of the Dominionists together, boil them down to liquid and bake them into the one single most highly derided and contaminated individual known to man, and you will have before you an image of the quintessential “liberal” -- one of those folks who wants to give liberally to the poor and needy -- who desires the welfare and happiness of all Americans -- who insists on safety regulations for your protection and who desires the preservation of your values -- those damnable people are the folks that must be reduced to powerlessness -- or worse: extinction..."

[BrklynLiberal]

3. they are scary as hell...and I read that the guys who make the ESS

electronic voting machines are connected to Ahmanson (spelling?)..one of the biggest financial backers of the Dominionists...

Here is where I have read about them. It is enough to make your hair stand straight up...
http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm

[Shallah Kali]

4. Dominionist Hell: It's not just for Sunday anymore - a diary by an dominionist escapee

http://dogemperor.dailykos.com /

Talk2Action - many articles about current dominionist and other extremist Christian doings:
http://www.talk2action.org

Theocracy Watch
http://www.theocracywatch.org

Right Wing Watch - all right wing doings not just religious specific by PFAW
http://www.rightwingwatch.org

I suggest bookmarking and reading a bit at a time to keep your hair from permanently looking like Don King's do. These are not harmless oddballs. While they will never fully accomplish their goals they can and have and WILL make a hellish mess of things in the process. Just look what Palin's smears and inuendo did causing the Secret Service to blame her for the increase in threats against President-Elect Obama,