The Increasingly Bizarre John Ensign Tale

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



John Ensign's Church Head Endorsed Sex-With-Succubus Economic Theory

Posted by Bruce Wilson at 8:27 AM on July 25, 2009.

International Foursquare Gospel Head Backed Claim That Japanese Emperors Have Intercourse With Demons



What drives economic boom-and-bust cycles and stock market fluctuations ? In the late 1970's, the Texas oil tycoon Hunt brothers caused a mammoth speculative bubble in world silver prices by buying up between fifty and seventy five percent of the precious metal. This spring, 2009, a new Rolling Stone Magazine story claimed that the financial investment firm Goldman Sachs "has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."

But Van Nuys, California based megachurch pastor Jack Hayford, current head of sex-scandal embroiled GOP Senator John Ensign's religious denomination, has endorsed a theory proposing that a supernatural mechanism drove down Japanese stock market prices during the early 1990's: the Japanese emperor's alleged sexual intercourse with a "sky goddess" who, according to the theory, might be a succubus.

Footage from a 1993 evangelical video shows Hayford enthusiastically introducing and endorsing a talk during which his colleague C. Peter Wagner claimed that the early 1990's economic downturn of the Japanese economy was due to what Wagner depicted as a Shinto ritual in which Japanese emperors have sexual intercourse with a demonic sky-goddess being that, posited Wagner, may have been a succubus. Wagner blamed slack Japanese stock prices on the alleged tryst. As British religious scholar Richard Bartholomew notes, C. Peter Wagner's treatment of the Shinto ceremony is factually dubious on a number of counts.

US GOP Senator John Ensign belongs to the 5-10 million member (estimates vary) denomination, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, which Church on The Way Pastor Jack Hayford has headed for 5 years. Hayford gave the benediction at former president George W. Bush's 2001 inaugural prayer service. In 2006 Senator Ensign addressed the Foursquare Gospel International Church's yearly convention via a videotaped message. In 2003, Ensign traveled to Philadelphia and addressed the yearly Foursquare Gospel convention in person. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141560/john_ensign%27s_church_head_endorsed_sex-with-succubus_economic_theory/

[izquierdista]

1. I volunteer to save the world!

I, I will offer myself up to have sexual intercourse with the demonic sky-goddess. :evilgrin: :thumbsup:

[sutz12]

2. About as rational as any other RW idea.

:)

[SeattleGirl]

3. Wow, now I know who owned the Weekly World News

[kestrel91316]

4. Foursquare Gospel. YIKES! They aren't just your garden-variety

Pentecostal nutters - they kick it up more than a few notches. I think they speak in tongues and roll on the floor. IIRC, a guy I dated way back in HS came from a family of them and he thought they were all certifiable.

[malaise]

5. Anyone suggesting that the Japanese Emperor had sex with

a succubus is beyond certifiable.
What is frightening is how easily these bat shit crazy people have infiltrated the branches of government.

[jwirr]

7. You are right. My cousin married one of them and she made life for

the rest of us hell. I swear she was much better than us (even though like us she had to get married) and she did not think twice about stealing from his sister - even the family photo album. If that is who these guys are they need to be stopped.

[Adsos Letter]

6. So, Bush was having sex with a demonic sky goddess?

Considering our current state of financial misery, that would seem to be the logical follow-on from that sort of thinking.

I wonder if Laura knew about it...

[dgibby]

8. Forwarded to Rachel.

She is gonna love this!:evilgrin: Teh crazy--it burns!

[opihimoimoi]

9. Someone put something in their POT SUPPLY...WTF are these dudes DOING?

[peacetalksforall]

10. Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell - and more.

Now we're getting somewhere - were announcements by Robertson and Falwell crediting disasters to behavior based on this, but they didn't name succubus or demons, they played it safe and only mentioned GOD?

If the Japanese market fell because of a tryst or attack on the Emperor, then it means that all the cylcones/typhoons that have hit Bangladesh are all because of succubus? If they are connecting Japan, Shintoism then that means we are all one. All disasters in Bangladesh, the big tsunami that hit Buddhists and Moslems who lived in the countries affected by the waters. Then Iran had that big earthquake, they're in on this, also. Katrina - who had the sex there? The melting of the glaciers - Eskimos deserved a visit?

Is there an end?

This is unbelievable. I can't believe the number of times I have said unbelievalble in the last two weeks.

Things are breakding down fast everywhere.

I don't think this is what Rove had in mind when he said they were going to present us with a new reality. His new reality was screwing to us and spinning about 1000 times where one spin used to do the job. Since all this Family stuff is supposed to be secret - this mythology stuff would be included in the new reality, but not voiced.

I think things are really starting to fall apart.

I think I'll ask some wingers that I know how they feel about mythology being a part of Christianity in this form?

What are they saying on FR?

I have to say it again - this is amazingly unbelievable. They are sinking fast in my opinion of them. This is what happens when you have such loyal followers that the followers will believe all this stuff?

DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM ACCUSE YOU OF WEARING A TIN HAT WHEN YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN OR DABBLE IN SPECULATION ABOUT WHY SOMETHING HAPPENED AND OFFER A SUGGESTION. IF WE WEAR TIN HATS, WHAT TO THEY WEAR? Hats with horns and special tails?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. SkyGoddess - Demon Succubus. Sounds like a made for Sci Fi channel movie

I'd love to attend one of this pastor's sermons. He sounds entertaining. Totally nutty, but entertaining. If I were in attendance, I'd be cheering him on and egging him on to get nuttier and nuttier and give us all the details he knows about the SkyGoddess and her evil powers.

[Wednesdays]

12. K&R

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