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In reply to the discussion: Twitter Lovefest Blooms Among Anti-Gay Leaders in Uganda, U.S. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. Found it. This is well-funded and international:
Palin's Churches and the Holy Laughter anointing
Uploaded on Sep 11, 2008
From the research team that made the international viral video hit that in May 2008, according to the New York Times (and a wide range of other media including the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, AP, the Dallas Morning News, CNN and MSNBC) forced Senator John McCain to renounce the political endorsement of Texas megachurch Pastor John Hagee, also head of Christians United For Israel.
The 3:40 video featured an excerpt from a late 2005 sermon, broadcast internationally and sold by Hagee's ministry as a DVD, in which Hagee stated that "God sent a hunter - Hitler was a hunter" and suggested the divinely appointing mission was to drive Europe's Jews to Palestine because that was, according to Hagee, "God's top priority".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/us/politics/23hagee.html?_r=0
Documentation for the "Palin's Churches and The Holy Laughter Anointing" video, along with articles on the religious doctrines held at at least 3 of four out of Palin's Alaska churches, please see:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/03830/11602/
See the first video in the series, Palin's Demon Haunted Churches (removed by YouTube)
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008...
From the research team that brought you Palin's Demon Haunted Churches and John Hagee's sermons.
Link will not post, will break up at the end of this post and you can join it together to watch it on vimeo. *** Description from that video page:
God Sent Hitler
Pastor John Hagee---in a sermon given sometime between September 24, 2005 and Janaury 1, 2006 and which John Hagee Ministries packaged as part of a three-sermon set still sold by JHM (available online at the John Hagee Ministries website under the title "Jerusalem: Countdown To Crisis" )---claims that God sent Hitler, to force Europe's Jews back to the land of Israel. In the same sermon Hagee also claims Jews are not "spiritually alive."
The youtube description of the first video in this post continues:
Palin's Demon Haunted Churches, also listed as Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave (currently removed by YouTube for reasons unknown to the researchers) focused on the links between Wasilla Assembly of God and leaders and organizations of the Third Wave or New Apostolic Reformation, including Morningstar Ministries. This movement is the resurgence of a heresy condemned by the General Council of the Assemblies of God in 1949 and again in a resolution in 2000.
The new movie, Palin's Churches and the Holy Laughter Anointing, focuses on Juneau Christian Center, formerly Bethel Assembly of God, and the pastor's relationship with Rodney Howard-Browne. Howard-Browne is the world leader in the anointing of Holy Laughter but also a fierce proponent of the Third Wave's belief that they must take over the United States and the world before the end times.
When in residence in Juneau, Sarah Palin has chosen to attend Juneau Christian Center as documented by the church, and by the Alaska Assemblies of God state newsletter, Alaska Update.
Rodney Howard-Browne is recognized worldwide as the source of Holy Laughter anointing to revivals around the globe. He has become a central figure in the Third Wave, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation, and is credited with bringing Holy Laughter to the Toronto Airport Blessing and the Lakeland Outpouring. Howard-Browne is also a long time associate of Mike Rose, senior pastor of Juneau Christian Center, formerly the Bethel Assembly of God. Mike Rose has been the Alaska State Legislature Chaplain since 1994 and has espoused Christian nationalist sentiments since that date, when he offered the following prayer, May 5, 1994 on the AK Senate floor:
"Our society's rejection of biblical principles and truth has placed our country in spiritual and moral jeopardy. Our need for revival and renewal is great, but you said in Your word, 'If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.'"
Other links:
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/conservatives_other_kenyan_obsession/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3493314
Anyone who has seen the mass marketing of Palin, the groups of women who supported her, knows this is going on. And those small churches in neighborhoods that are of these denominations we've seen all of our lives, there is no way to tell if this is their belief system or not.
I found a website full of vitriol about Obama, claiming that they were Hillary supporters. They urged women to vote for Palin, since she is a woman, and there is right wing meme about Obama 'raping' Hillary. Their contention was that since PBO is a man, he cannot represent the female of the species.
I think he has done more than I've seen in years with the provisions in the ACA, his steadfast support of VAWA and women's rights to abortion, contraception and funding, standing up for women since his first day in office when he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
This is out there folks, and although it's deeply offensive to most of here at DU, these folks do vote, and they do control enough state houses, state governorships, school boards and other offices to make our lives hell.
Stay informed, not hostile. Be ready to stand up for what you believe in, the kind of democracy that Jefferson and Paine envisioned for America, and not the theocracy these groups want to create here. Because they are working on this everyday.
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Isn't this the same batch that did a show at Palin's home church in Alaska? Anyone know?
freshwest
Apr 2013
#1
I don't know about the connection with Palin, but Liberty U. is a hotbed of rightist
cbayer
Apr 2013
#2
I edited. Money to build churches is nothing. There's a bigger game afoot there.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#3
I've known people in the PNW who attend evangelical churches, large ones, and have gone on tours to
freshwest
Apr 2013
#10
Here in the US, expose them as best we can I guess. No clue about what we can do in Africa.
pinto
Apr 2013
#8
He's been a vocal and financial advocate for issues that impact Africa. Sunshine and money...
pinto
Apr 2013
#12
Look at the innocent faces in Africa being fed this. I fear for the next generation, here and there.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#19
I still think the American churches (not Anglican) are doing more damage than the locals, JMHO.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#21
He is denying it but he is an associate of several of the ring leader pastors on this.
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
#24