Statue of Liberty.....a Symbol of Satan?

[marmar]

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Rick Perry Partners With "Apostle" Who Thinks the Statue of Liberty Is a "Demonic Idol"


As we've been reporting on Right Wing Watch, Texas Governor Rick Perry is working a number of radical preachers to plan his upcoming Christians-only prayer rally. Perry's partners in the event include extremists who believe that tolerance for homosexuality caused the September 11th attacks, Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist, the deadly Japanese earthquake was caused by the country’s Emperor having sex with a demon, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell caused bird deaths in Arkansas and violence should be considered to overthrow President Obama, among many other extreme beliefs.

One self-described ‘Apostle’ who has signed on as an official endorser to Perry's The Response prayer rally is John Benefiel of the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network, a group affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation with ties to other The Response endorsers including Cindy Jacobs, C. Peter Wagner and Jay Swallow. In a sermon last August, Benefiel argued that America is under a curse from God because the country possesses monuments to pagan idols and that Americans needs to renounce those idols if not destroy them. Benefiel claims that the Statue of Liberty is in fact a “demonic idol” because it represents a “false goddess.”

Watch: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/632900/rick_perry_partners_with_%22apostle%22_who_thinks_the_statue_of_liberty_is_a_%22demonic_idol%22/

Libertas is also called the Freedom Goddess, Lady Freedom, the Goddess of Liberty. You know there’s a statue in New York harbor called the Statue of Liberty. You know where we got it from? French Free Masons. Listen folks that is an idol, a demonic idol, right there in New York harbor. People say, ‘well no it’s patriotic.’ What makes it patriotic? Why is it? It’s a statue of a false goddess, the Queen of Heaven. We don’t get liberty from a false goddess folks, we get our liberty from Jesus Christ and that Statue of Liberty in no way glorifies Jesus Christ. There is no connection whatsoever. So I’m just telling you we practice idolatry in America in ways that we don’t even recognize.

By Brian Tashman | Sourced from Right Wing Watch
Posted at July 12, 2011, 9:31 am


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/632900/rick_perry_partners_with_%22apostle%22_who_thinks_the_statue_of_liberty_is_a_%22demonic_idol%22/

[Enrique]

1. about the Emperor having sex with a demon

do they mean that literally or figuratively? :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Misunderstanding I hope

He is considered the Son of Amatasu.

Mileage and all that

[geardaddy]

3. These idiots pray to the god of the almight dollar.

that is all.

[Solly Mack]

4. I don't want what they're smoking.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Fucking nutters. Another crime in Reagan's long list was giving voice and power to these assholes

and now we are starting the reap the whirlwind of their evil.

We've always had nutters and insane, violent shitbags in this country who claimed their form of evil to be "Christianity", but they were always on the fringe. Reagan stood up and said "Hey, these guys should be the only public voice of faith in this country from now on!"

[gratuitous]

6. We do indeed practice idolatry in many unrecognized ways

I don't see anyone prostrating themselves before the Statue of Liberty, but I see plenty of folks who have pledged allegiance to pieces of cloth, elevated bits of paper to god-like status and subordinated all other principles to abstract, artificial notions of tribe and nation.

Thankfully, no one will ask Gov. Perry about any of these lunatic pronouncements. That's reserved for preachers of a certain skin tone who denounce our country's past practices of slavery and the like.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Awesome. nt

[Taverner]

8. Typical fundie stupidity. I keep saying, faith has no place in government

I suppose he thinks we should eliminate all statues with faces, as to not have idolatry

He should just move to Afghanistan where he can have his merry little theocracy

[SpiralHawk]

9. What about the Republicon statue to their beloved 666 actor-demon who used astrology?

Ronald "Dutch" Reagan - a surefire demonic nickname -- was a bona fide Dabbler in the Occult -- with his own - OMG! - astrologer. Surely all the Republicons, Freepers, and TeaBaggers who WORSHIP him will roast eternally in the soul-searing flames of hElL.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. Doesn't know a thing about mythology.

I guess he wants to take Lady Justice and her scales off the tops of ALL courthouses in Texas, then.

Don't tell him about Marianne, the symbol of the French Revolution. She has one breast exposed. Sacre bleu!!!

[damntexdem]

11. Well, it did come from France -- and we all know about France.

;-)

[pinboy3niner]

16. I wonder what could've possessed France to give us that Demonic Idol...

:evilgrin:

[LeftinOH]

12. Remember when the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001?

Of course, those WERE religious symbols (but certainly not Demonic). The religious authorities decided that -after more than 1,000 years- they were offensive idolatries.

This is the culture that the American Taliban wants:

[myrna minx]

13. These people are nuts - lucifer means a bringer of light, not the

fallen angel in the old testament. These people need a class in mythology. :eyes:

[closeupready]

14. It's just a statue!!!1 111!!!

:crazy: :sarcasm:

[ljm2002]

15. Of course!!!

Why didn't we see it sooner?

The only thing to do is to take a page out of the Taliban's book and destroy the giant idol. Just machine-gun the statue to death, just like they did with the giant Buddha. It's the only sane course of action!

:sarcasm:

[Odin2005]

17. These people are insane. Litterally, truly, INSANE.