"When Fascism comes to America,will it come wrapped in the Flag, and carrying a cross." - Upton Sinclair
I've added Alaska to the list of places I'm never visiting, and if I do have to visit Alaska for some reason, I am draping myself in crosses and carrying at least two bibles at all times.
Last March, Sarah Palin enjoyed an extended telephone consultation and pep talk with Morningstar* Ministries founder and head Rick Joyner, who has contacts among Republicans in Congress and whose ministry is closely tied to Palin's most important Alaskan church, the Wasilla Assembly of God.
[Mr. Joyner] publicly advocates the establishment of a government regime that, in his own words, "may seem like totalitarianism" and would re-educate citizens in 'correct' decision making . . .
No wonder wingnuts spend so much time bleating about "reeducation camps"- they're afraid Obama will beat them to it.
In a "prophecy" published June 19, 2007, Rick Joyner wrote, "The kingdom of God will not be socialism, but a freedom even greater than anyone on earth knows at this time. At first it may seem like totalitarianism ... Instead of taking away liberties and becoming more domineering, the kingdom will move from a point of necessary control while people are learning truth, integrity, honor, and how to make decisions, to increasing liberty so that they can."
So . . . we'll take away your right to make decisions until such a time as you make the decisions that we want you to. Mao, Stalin and Torquemada would no doubt be proud.
But Morningstar Ministries is in fact closely tied to the [Palin's] church, whose head pastor Ed Kalnins, along with Kenyan evangelist Thomas Muthee, anointed and blessed Sarah Palin against the "spirit of witchcraft" in an October 2005 ceremony at the church, shortly before Palin launched her bid to become Alaska governor.
During that 2005 ceremony, Muthee urged his church audience to "infiltrate" key sectors of society such as business and finance, government, education, and media. Thomas Muthee became briefly notorious during the 2008 election, for his claim to have driven a "witch" from Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.
Considering that witch burnings have become popular in Africa, I'd like (and not like) to know exactly how Muthee "drove a witch" from Kiambu.
Morningstar Ministries promotes the idea that a "last day army" of supernaturally equipped young Christians will conquer and cleanse all evil from the Earth, and a conference advertisement on the Morningstar website features a music track with the refrain, "There is a new generation rising up in power, there is a last day army rising up for war." Militant themes are common at the church.
One part of me says, "so you've got Sylar working for you" with a smirk, but militancy combined with extremist Christian views have not worked out well for the nonbelievers or the unpopular in the past. You know, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials.
At a revival event held during the week of August 7-13, 2008, Morningstar Executive Vice President Steve Thompson gave a frenzied exhortation to an excited crowd, "See, Jesus is waiting seated at the right hand of the Father, having all authority on Heaven and on Earth, having commissioned and empowered and deployed his disciples to go out and enforce the victory and the judgment that he won over the enemy and waiting until his people rise up and demonstrate their glory and those enemies are put under the feet of the body of Christ !"
The body of Christ is a euphamism for the chuch. He wants you and me under his boots and then he wants to forcibly reeducate us. Color me concerned.
*Wasn't Satan's name "the morningstar"? Who names a Christian ministry after Satan? That's just weird.
