Religious Revolt: New Christian Sect Battles Demons, Raises the Dead, Campaigns for Sarah Palin

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Religious Revolt: New Christian Sect Battles Demons, Raises the Dead, Campaigns for Sarah Palin

By Bruce Wilson, Religion Dispatches. Posted April 23, 2009.

This disturbing "Third Wave" of Christianity is growing faster than the earth's population and faster than Islam.




What is happening to Christianity?

In 1996 a team from Ted Haggard's New Life Church flew to Mali and began furtively anointing entire towns with cooking oil.

The strangeness of it gripped Dutch missionary René Holvast, who later wrote: "It was confusing and produced a growing uneasiness. It did not seem to fit our current evangelical theological and anthropological textbooks."

The team from Haggard's church was a forerunner in a missionary wave that has washed over the world since the early 1990s, bringing what Holvast calls a ‘new paradigm.'

René Holvast has theological training, but his perplexed reaction was similar to that of Alix Spiegel, a radio journalist who went to Ted Haggard's New Life Church in 1997 to do a story for This American Life. Spiegel encountered something so alluring, even overwhelming, that the secular, urban Jew was almost pulled in. (After several days at Ted Haggard's church, Spiegel called This American Life's Ira Glass who -- as if he were a deprogrammer weaning her from a cult -- had to convince Alix Spiegel that she really belonged back in her secular realm of origin, Chicago.)

From its early days, New Life Church's members worked to map out all the territorial demon spirits inhabiting Colorado Springs. At some point in the process, they fed the mapping information into a computer database. Methodically -- street by street, block by block -- they used prayer-warfare to expel the demons from their city. And they maintained a 24/7 prayer shield over Colorado Springs to prevent demon re-infestations. As with inner-city cockroaches, the price of demon-free living was constant vigilance. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/137728/religious_revolt%3A_new_christian_sect_battles_demons%2C_raises_the_dead%2C_campaigns_for_sarah_palin/

[thunder rising]

1. spewage ...

[Ian David]

2. Ted Haggard went to Africa to rub young boys with oil? Or am I reading that wrong? n/t

[ashling]

3. Raises the dead?

Can they register to vote? Gettin' 'em to the polls could be tricky ... arms and legs fallin' off here and there.

How do you know if a precinct is going for Palin?
The voters are older than the election judges.

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All the hearses lined up in the voting place parking lot

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The local cemetery has "I voted" chiseled on all the tombstones

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[juno jones]

4. Bruce Wilson also posts on Kos as 'troutfishing'

He and another kossack, dogemperor, a survivor of a third wave cult, have extensive diaries on this subject. Several of these are nearly all primary sources, videos, publications made by the cult and it's leaders.

I know, I post this everywhere, but for those who haven't delved into this rabbit hole, here is a good introduction:
'Joel's Army and the Seven Mountains Plan for Takeover' by dogemperor
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/165650/170



I can't read this stuff at night anymore.