Ensign House Owned By Group Proposing Christian World Control Plot

[shraby]

(There needs to be a full list of members so everyone will know who is participating in this horrid group.)

Most recently covered by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (1, 2), Washington D.C.'s "C Street House" has over the past two weeks become the center of a media firestorm. Along with GOP Senator Tom Coburn, sex-scandal embroiled GOP leaders Senator John Ensign and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford have been tied to the row house, assessed to be worth 1.84 million dollars, which is registered as a church and provides Washington politicians with substantially lower than market rate rent. Coburn and Ensign have lived at the C Street house, while Sanford has participated in its Bible study group.

According to the Washington Post the house is owned by Youth With a Mission D.C. Youth With a Mission is one of the most extensive Christian fundamentalist para-church organizations on Earth, and YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control.

(More, much more and well worth the read)

<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752404/-Ensign-House-Owned-By-Group-Proposing-Christian-World-Control-Plot>

[MineralMan]

1. Let's hope this gets more exposure, and do whatever we

can to promote that.

We don't want "The Family" to keep hiding its light under a bushel, now, do we?

[notadmblnd]

11. You're right. They should want their light to shine, just like it says in the religious song.

This little light of mine.
I'm gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine.
I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine....

[madfloridian]

2. You should post that 7 Mountains video in the video section

It is very scary indeed.

I know there are Demcorats, but hard to find the names.

[shraby]

4. I don't know how to post videos...can someone do it?

[Bumblebee]

9. Bart Stupak, Mike Doyle, Heath Shuler

DeMint is also a tenant, as is Brownback -- not a surprise.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/10/c-street-group-hurt-by-links-to-scandals/
http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07102009.html
http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/15584

[LiberalFighter]

3. Do the Congress members pay taxes on the value they receive for below market rent?

[Arugula Latte]

5. Well, if their Messiah and Savior would return they'd have no problem.

He was supposed to come back centuries ago, but he's rather late.

Gee, I wonder why that is.

[napi21]

6. I read somewhere yesterday that Brownback is affiliated with

The Family too. The article said they will not release their membership, but say there are about 20,000 members across the US.

[Shallah Kali]

14. Rolling Stone - "God's Senator: Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator

Brownback got involved in the Fellowship in 1979, as a summer intern for Bob Dole, when he lived in a residence the group had organized in a sorority house at the University of Maryland. Four years later, fresh out of law school and looking for a political role model, Brownback sought out Frank Carlson, a former Republican senator from Kansas. It was Carlson who, at a 1955 meeting of the Fellowship, had declared the group's mission to be "Worldwide Spiritual Offensive," a vision of manly Christianity dedicated to the expansion of American power as a means of spreading the gospel.

Over the years, Brownback became increasingly active in the Fellowship. But he wasn't invited to join a cell until 1994, when he went to Washington. "I had been working with them for a number of years, so when I went into Congress I knew I wanted to get back into that," he says. "Washington -- power -- is very difficult to handle. I knew I needed people to keep me accountable in that system."

Brownback was placed in a weekly prayer cell by "the shadow Billy Graham" -- Doug Coe, Vereide's successor as head of the Fellowship. The group was all male and all Republican. It was a "safe relationship," Brownback says. Conversation tended toward the personal. Brownback and the other men revealed the most intimate details of their desires, failings, ambitions. They talked about lust, anger and infidelities, the more shameful the better -- since the goal was to break one's own will. The abolition of self; to become nothing but a vessel so that one could be used by God.

They were striving, ultimately, for what Coe calls "Jesus plus nothing" -- a government led by Christ's will alone. In the future envisioned by Coe, everything -- sex and taxes, war and the price of oil -- will be decided upon not according to democracy or the church or even Scripture. The Bible itself is for the masses; in the Fellowship, Christ reveals a higher set of commands to the anointed few. It's a good old boy's club blessed by God. Brownback even lived with other cell members in a million-dollar, red-brick former convent at 133 C Street that was subsidized and operated by the Fellowship. Monthly rent was $600 per man -- enough of a deal by Hill standards that some said it bordered on an ethical violation, but no charges were ever brought.

[rucky]

7. Jesus often spoke of world domination.

:rofl:


Man, you can't make this stuff up!

[global1]

8. It's Time To Start Delving Into The Actions Of These Lawmakers That Live In This C-Street House....

We already seen what Ensign & Sanford were up to. Now we need to give a good look at the others that live in this house and see what kind of lives they live. Perhaps they got in under the radar before - but now they've been outed and should be scrutinized. I wonder what kind of voting record these guys have up on the Hill? Is there a pattern in their support or lack of support for the various bills that flow through Congress? I'm also wondering who some of the alumni are that lived in this house during previous Congresses? We're in the 111th Congress now. Who was part of this family in the 110th, 109th, 108th.... and how did they vote? Is this house Co-Ed? Do/Did women lawmakers live there as well?

This group sounds really creepy. I wonder what kind of influence patterns will be seen as to how this group has shaped this country?

[rrneck]

10. It's always an odd number isn't it?

It always seems to be the (3/5/7/9) things you have to (do/find/learn/conquer/understand/achieve) to magically resolve any problem in life.

The old scams are always the best scams I guess. "Help us conquer business and then we can fund the rest of the 'mountains'. Then we can charge you for every facet of your humanity.

*sigh*

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Return of the Crusades, by gum.

I thought I had been getting whiffs of it during the last Bush era....this really cements it.
So now we got these idiots trying to run Congress and Foreign Policy.
And the Muslims have their own version of twits trying to do the same thing.

Suddenly being an unarmed aetheist in the Deep south has a Stephen King feeling.

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. These idiots should try READING their bibles, instead of merely thumping them

Starting with the verse where JC said "My kingdom is NOT of this world".

[Shallah Kali]

15. but they already know what the Bible says without reading it

Elite Fundamentism - The Fellowship's gospel of Capitalist Power
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2353921.htm

Stephen Crittenden: So much to talk about in what you've just said to unpack. Let's talk about the theological question about Jesus first. You speak about a theology which you say is totally malleable, and you talk about a theology of Jesus plus nothing. It's almost like a home-grown American religion that purports to be about Jesus, purports to be Christian, but it's had all the content drained out of it.

Jeff Sharlet: Yes, that's really exactly it. I begin the book, and I begin the story with a month I spent living in one of The Family's houses where they sort of groom younger men for leadership by signing you up for mentoring with a Congressman and so on. And I remember being struck at the time when a US Senate Aide was telling us about former Vice-President, Dan Quayle, who had volunteered to lead a Bible Study for political men, for The Family, but he needed some help, he needed someone to come over and give him just a quick crash course, 'Because', he said, 'well, he hadn't actually ever read the Bible.' So he was quite certain he knew what the Bible said, he was quite certain it supported his political program. He felt confident in scolding others for not living up to the Bible, but he had never actually read the Bible. And that's what you really see when you look at this elite fundamentalism. It's a religion of the status quo, it's a religion of things as they are. It's not the sort of science fiction vision of what the world will look like when the fundamentalists have taken over. These guys are very content with the world as it is, and they top up the Bible as something that is supporting themselves and power. Doug Coe, the leader of the group says 'We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't.' And that's a very status quo religion.

[nilram]

16. A vision for Christian world-control...

Funny, "the beast" from Revelations has the same vision. How ironic -- maybe you guys should join forces?

[Shallah Kali]

17. one of the articles I read said some christian group thinks doug coe is the antichrist....

and would love to get a hold of him to save his head to see if the numbers are there.... lemme see if I can find that link.

Meet 'The Family' By Anthony Lappé, Guerrilla News Network

quote:
SHARLET: I know it's weird. There is one really wacky fundamentalist group that thinks Doug Coe could be the Anti-Christ. They're not sure yet, they might need to shave his head and see if he has the mark of the beast.