Heads Up: Prayer Warriors and Sarah Palin Are Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America

[babsbunny]

http://www.alternet.org/news/145796/heads_up%3A_prayer_warriors_and_sarah_palin_are_organizing_spiritual_warfare_to_take_over_america_

The New Apostolic Reformation, the largest religious movement you've never heard of, aims to take control of communities through 'prayer warriors.'
March 1, 2010


Imagine a religious movement that makes geographic maps of where demons reside and claims among its adherents the Republican Party's most recent vice presidential nominee and whose leaders have presided over prayer sessions (one aimed at putting the kibosh on health-care reform) with a host of leading GOP figures.

t's a movement whose followers played a significant role in the battle over Proposition 8, California's anti-same-sex marriage initiative, and Uganda's infamous proposed Anti-Homosexuality Law, more commonly associated with the Family, a religious network of elites drawn from the ranks of business and government throughout the world. But the movement we're imagining encompasses the humble and the elite alike, supporting a network of "prayer warriors” in all 50 states, within the ranks of the U.S. military, and at the far reaches of the globe -- all guided by an entire genre of books, texts, videos and other media.

[piratefish08]

1. hehehehehehehehehe............

oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

the prayer warriors are coming!

[stray cat]

2. Job creation : pitchforks and strikes on one side prayer on the other......

How about something that will actually create jobs for a change

[saltpoint]

3. Wull Ah hope them prayr waryers git her fast cuz Murkas under

uhtack frum them east coast types and them Hollywood libruls.

[Brickbat]

4. Where's the map of demons? I'd like to see how many are where I live.

[saltpoint]

5. Excellent thought. Come to think of it, why didn't the Book of Revelation

include a map of demons?

Power to the people, dammit! We want to see where the demons are!

[Brickbat]

8. Exactly! If they're there, I want to know where! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!!!1!!!

[saltpoint]

18. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[MattBaggins]

14. Well I can think if at least one that lives right in your very house ;)

[Brickbat]

15. Touche!

:rofl:

[lunatica]

6. San Francisco is toast

[whistler162]

7. How much did you pay for the bridge?

[Echo In Light]

9. Be wary the notion of so-called "religious tolerance" for highly intolerant hate groups

[Bryn]

10. Their prayers won't work ...

The Universe will not grant their prayers. Love is the Univeral Law.

:hi:

[Ikonoklast]

11. They really pulled that one out for McCain and Palin, didn't they?

Oops.

Guess they were praying to the wrong god.


Sheep. Baaa. Baaaaa.

[liberal_at_heart]

12. It's not the praying that bothers me

They can pray all they want. What is scary is when all that praying turns into action. Meditating or praying on something for a long time can start to influence your behavior. I find when I spend a significant time meditating I feel more peaceful and therefore act more peaceful. If they are praying on demons they may start to view us non-Christians as demons and start acting as such also possibly becoming more violent or at the very least more discriminatory. I can't believe the way some Christians treat gay people. It's like they don't even want to be in their presence. Somehow being in a gay's presence jeopordizes their salvation so they think they are justified in denying gays a place of residence, employment, healthcare benefits. It's almost like living in the time of segregation only they are trying to segregate themselves from gays now instead of blacks. What's next? Are they going to start segregating themselves from non-believers too? Or maybe deny non-believers employment or a place of residence?

[Shallah Kali]

16. What you said - it's when the praying stops and the actions begin I worry

Palin's Churches and the Holy Laughter anointing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_CkZWTvKBc

Church posts controversial ‘gay exorcism’ video
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/2009/06/25/church-posts-controversial-gay-exorcism-video/

The video shows leaders of the Manifested Glory Ministries in a frenetic scene, screaming, “Right now I command you to leave!”

At the same time a teen writhing on the ground as the adults around him implore so called “homosexual demons” to get out.

The leaders yell at the boy on the ground saying, “Right now in the name of Jesus, I call the homosexuality, right now in the name of Jesus.”

For 20 minutes it continues with the boy in a near seizure, even vomiting.


GOP's New Prayer Guru Lou Engle Says Gays Possessed By Demons
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/19/115855/89

[L. Coyote]

13. Don't you mean, overthrow the USA so they can con(quer) the whole World for Jesus

It would be funny if this age-old insanity wasn't true!

[Bigmack]

17. How long is the delay ...

on a "prayer grenade"? Wouldn't want to be holding onto one when it went off!

Have those people been schooled in the use of "prayer bayonets"?

We can all hope they never get the secrets of "prayer nukes"!

[Shallah Kali]

19. $3,147,589 in tax money for a NAR abstinence only sex ed in FL schools. Yeah that is some funny shit

:sarcasm:

Supernatural healings of AIDS, spontaneous destruction of property of other belief systems, and even claims that the prayers of the movement have killed other humans are featured in films shown worldwide, including to mainline Protestant churches and renewal groups which have subsequently broken from their parent denominations.

For instance, the Transformations movies claim there have been thousands of cases of miraculous curing of AIDS in Uganda. Conversely, medical leaders are warning that claims of miraculous healing are interfering with the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Since altering their AIDS programs to abstinence-only programming promoted by U.S. evangelicals, Uganda has had an increase, not decrease of new AIDS cases.

To give you an idea of how deeply entrenched the New Apostolics are in this policy consider this example of one of the most celebrated abstinence-only programs in the U.S. Recapturing the Vision and Vessels of Honor are names for abstinence-only programs headed by Jacqueline del Rosario, who testified for renewal of Title V abstinence-based funding in Congressional hearings in 2002. Since 2001, her Miami organizations have been the recipient of $3,147,589 of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant money, and significant sums from other public sources, despite the fact that her organization was one of four in a long-term federally funded study which show ed no measurable results.

Del Rosario was a speaker, along with Wagner and other top apostles, at a conference in January, where she was described as an apostle in the promotional literature. Her relationship with the apostles is not new, however. She incorporated her organizations in the mid 1990s with leading Florida apostle Diane Buker, head of Battle Axe ministries, and Cindy Trimm, described as a "general in the art of strategic warfare." Buker is the author of God's Power to Multiply for Wealth and her Battle Axe Brigade ministry Web site http://www.battleaxe.org/ features virulent attacks on Catholicism and other faiths. It certainly makes you question what is being taught in faith-based programming {financed} with millions of our tax dollars.

Demon mapping and prayer warrioring might be worth a lap but no one should forget that over all these is a political movement with the avowed aim of taking control of America. While they won't succeed they can and have caused damage diverting our tax dollars to worthless programs and in ares with enough of 'em electing one of their own, or someone willing to kowtow to them, to public office.