Our job will be to establish a beachhead and occupy until the main forces can mobilize

[sufrommich]

to secure the territory in Jesus’ Name.


Rick Perry and his scary bedfellows:


When Texas governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry decided to host a prayer rally, The Response, with the bigoted American Family Association and the radical International House of Prayer, Right Wing Watch noted the two groups’ bigoted and extreme beliefs along with the rally’s goal of proselytizing to non-Christians.

Yesterday we noted that one of the leaders of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s The Response, ‘Apostle’ Doug Stringer, blamed America for the September 11th attacks because of what he saw as the country’s increasing secularism and acceptance of homosexuality, and that the AFA began using other ‘apostles’ to defend Perry as the answer to their prayers. Already, Kansas governor and former senator Sam Brownback has signed up to participate.

One of The Response’s endorsers, Cindy Jacobs, is a self-declared ‘Prophet’ and a well-known advocate of the “spiritual warfare,” writing books such as Deliver Us From Evil and Possessing the Gates of the Enemy: A Training Manual for Militant Intercession. For example, Jacobs used spiritual warfare against Craigslist, non-Christian religions, and gays and lesbians.

Another The Response endorser is “spiritual warfare” leader James ‘Jay’ Swallow, a Native American “apostle” who founded the Two Rivers Native American Training Center. Like Jacobs, Swallow has spoken at The Call rallies including one in which he accepted on behalf of all Native Americans Brownback’s apology for the federal government’s mistreatment of indigenous people. According to his biography, “God has given Dr. Swallow extraordinary insight into ‘healing the land’ through prayer and spiritual warfare.” The Center is built around the “Strategic Warriors At Training (SWAT): A Christian Military Training Camp for the purpose of dealing with the occult and territorial enemy strong holds in America.” Seminars include “Demonic Spirits,” “Spiritual Warfare,” “Identifying the Strongman,” and “Freemasonry.” The training is apparently so intense that Swallow asks participants sign a “release of liability” form to waive their right to sue.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/will-rick-perrys-prayer-rally-feature-spiritual-warfare

[SDuderstadt]

1. Yikes! n/t

[MindPilot]

2. Lots of war metaphors for a religion that is supposedly all about peace. n/t

[RKP5637]

7. Yep, sure is. I guess that's why they sing "Onward Christian Soldiers." n/t

[MindPilot]

10. That's one of the things that turned me off religion as a kid.

I grew up in a very religious home, and I remember even as young as 8 or 9 I was struck by the hypocrisy of all the talk of war and killin' and dyin' and sufferin' to advance the cause of a dude they dubbed the "Prince of Peace".

[RKP5637]

12. I recall well in church singing "Onward Christian Solders" thinking WTF. I always

wondered about all of the violence as a kid. I left it all, never looked back and never sorry. Today many of these religious flocks are more like evil cults IMO. There's no love or goodness in them, just hatred.

[rfranklin]

9. I think it is what is termed a "jihad"

The religiously insane are all alike.

[sufrommich]

11. Yep. nt

[fascisthunter]

3. K & R

somebody finds this OP to be too uncomfortable. Hence the unrec... well my rec just cancelled your out.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Seems as tho they have all given up on the jobs thing & now it's

about Jesus.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, they can buy jesus too! n/t

[RKP5637]

5. RECOMMEND!!! n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

8. Apocalypse Now.

Please. Sometime before Perry gets to be President would be good.

[Populist_Prole]

13. Good, the rest of us will strew the beach with obstacles and barbed wire

What a bunch of nuts. What are they gonna do, install machine gun nests on their church wall parapets? Begin another inquisition?