Repent Amarillo: The Hate Group With A Nuclear Twist

[Joanne98]

It's been blogged all over the place, so doubtless you've read about a rather alarming development on the religious extremist front in Texas. I'm talking about the militia-style hate group known as Repent Amarillo. Here's the banner from their website:


When you go their website, you're treated to some martial music and the sound of gunshots. They refer to themselves as the Army of God, and their motto is:

"We are the Special Forces of spiritual warfare, we're looking for a few good warriors."

Think Progress has a good post about the group (based on original reporting by the Texas Observer), summarizing some of their goals. Note the part I've emphasized in boldface:

An evangelical Christian hate group called “Repent Amarillo” is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, “spring break events,” and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a “Warfare Map” of its enemies in town...

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/6/843408/-Repent-Amarillo:-The-Hate-Group-With-A-Nuclear-Twist

They're Taliban terrorists and they need to be REMOVED from the US military!

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Wow - a guard where they store 14,000 plutonium pits from bombs

and he heads up a religious militia in his free time. This is as worrying as the Taliban getting close to Pakistani nuclear weapons.

[nemo137]

2. But they're white Christian Texans, you know.

Totally different thing.

[onestepforward]

3. These "prayer warriors" are a national movement

and they are Taliban-like.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/145796/heads_up:_prayer_warriors_and_sarah_palin_are_organizing_spiritual_warfare_to_take_over_america_

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.

It'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.

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