Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You

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Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You

A radical, right-wing charismatic evangelical movement is burrowing into the power structures of major American cities and states.

July 26, 2010

Editor's note: This story is about a radical right wing movement in charismatic Christianity that claims to fight demons but, leaving demonology aside, is demonstrably close to seizing the reigns of power in entire US states.

They claim to be able to raise the dead and cause miracles, such as the multiplication of Thanksgiving turkey dinners. They burn "witchcraft items" and "idols." They hold mass exorcisms to cast out alleged evil spirits they say cause lust, pornography, addiction, homosexuality, bisexuality, and perversion. They claim to be able to heal HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, Glaucoma, and cancer, and to break "generational curses" and "witchcraft curses." Who are they? Here are a few overviews (1, 2, 3.)

They compare opponents of their movement to rats that will be exterminated and one of their leaders has predicted that the regime they're working to create will initially "seem like totalitarianism". They're closely tied to the notorious, so-called "kill the gays bill" before Uganda's Parliament. They're behind Sarah Palin and one of their "prophets" has become the de-facto prayer leader for the Republican Party.

While America has fixated on the Tea Party movement, a radical, right-wing charismatic evangelical movement is burrowing into the power structures of major American cities, such as Newark, NJ <1, 2>, and even entire states, such as Alaska and Hawaii.

In Hawaii, they claim to be fielding both a Republican and Democratic candidate in the 2010 race for the governor's seat. Both candidates are staunchly opposed to gay marriage and same-sex civil unions as well as legalized abortion, and both can frequently be found onstage together at movement conferences.

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This might seem silly to secular America, good grist for a hearty mocking by John Stewart or Stephen Colbert. But there are real-world implications to the meteoric rise of the New Apostolic Reformation. If Sarah Palin runs for president in 2012 we could have a New Apostolic Reformation president, and the Medieval, demon haunted movement is really impacting people's lives.

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re-defined who she was and what she stood for. I am planning to join a group that will be fighting back on this, and highlighting these bastards for what they really are.

And stay away from Salem! ;-)

who are willing to do anything to "save" "their" country from the "evil" liberals.

It's way too Inquisition-like for there not to be a whole lot of Freudian goin' on.

I'm guessing something along the lines of bestiality or some crazy affair. :popcorn:

The fact that we ridicule and/or ignore and discount them makes them doubly dangerous because they run beneath the radar.

Run for school boards and dog catchers. Work your way up.

-Hoot

:thumbsup:

Apparently, if someone believes it and calls it "faith", it's totally off limits from any sort of criticism.

So, I'm not saying anything.

Fuck these bigots.

it is a total denial of the very foundations of our nation to claim that religious beliefs are not subject to scrutiny - and that people who use these beliefs in political life have some sort of "divine right" to live in ignorance and spread this ignorance like mental syphilis.

We need to keep these people (if such mindless bigots are even people at all) OUT of the state and federal power structures. Where they're already in, they need to be removed.

sometimes they are putting in candidates on both dem and repug sides. all the better to have a one party system. and a theocracy dictatorship. Pat Buchanan will be so happy!!!

Of course, they wouldn't have been able to "burrow" if they hadn't followed the subterranean trails and underground nests of the "religious right" politicians such as Rick Santorum or Ralph Reed.

It's a good thing Palin is a laughing stock with no serious credentials for major leadership. She would bring these subterranean creatures into the light - and give them offices and titles.