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Originally Posted by Si modo
Being a RC by (and of) convenience, I don't know what an "end-times" Christian is. Please fill me in and then let me know how that applies to Palin (whatever it is).
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I see TS has defined 'end times' adequately.
Ill tackle your second question.
Palin was baptized at the Wasilla Assemblies of God when she was 12, and she remained their until 2002, and still worships at an associated church in Juneau. The Pastor at Wasilla is a fanatic about the "end-times".
"He preaches repeatedly about the "end times" or "last days," an apocalyptic prophesy held by a small but vocal group of Christian leaders. During his appearance with Palin in June, he declared, "I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them..."
"...Kalnins has, of course, preached on a bevy of topics ranging from humility to "overcoming bitterness." But the more controversial remarks reported above were not out of the norm, appearing in numerous sermons spanning the four years of available recordings."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_123205.html
for more reading:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=10167
Sarah Palin and Dominionism
Sarah Palin it appears now, was chosen very carefully as she comes out of the very fundamentalist evangelical circles that the CNP uses to mobilize and shape America’s political agenda.
Palin reportedly drew early attention from state GOP leadership when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans put money behind her campaign. According to researcher, Charley James, "Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but."
The religious background of Sarah Palin is not unrelated to her bid to take the nation’s second highest office. She herself has been extremely vague about that background. Given the details, it becomes clearer perhaps why.
Sarah Palin has spent more than two and a half decades of her life as a member of an Alaska church which is part of a fanatical Christian-named cult project that is sweeping across America. Palin comes out of the most radical stream of US Born-Again Evangelism known as ‘Joel’s Army,’ an offshoot of what is called Dominionism and sometimes also called the Latter Rain cult or Manifest Sons of God. The movement deliberately attempts to remain below the radar screen.
A Dominionist soldier in McCain’s Army
Sarah Palin is a product of an extreme fringe of the American Evangelical movement known variously as the Third Wave Movement, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation, or as Joel's Army, a part of what is called Dominionism. Until 2002 according to their own website, Palin was a member of Wasilla Assembly of God with Senior Pastor Ed Kalnins. Online video clips of Palin speaking from the pulpit of this church are revealing. Curiously, between the time this article was begun on September 9th and the 11th, the video was removed without explanation:
(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20712.htm.).
But of course one could argue as many did with Obama that a candidate should not be held responsible for the views of their pastors. Fair enough. But at this point i think it is important for Sarah Palin to come out strongly and forcefully against views held by her pastor Ed Kalnins and the church where she grew up. So far she has not done this. And people have the nerve to think she is being unfairly attacked for her religion whereas Obama was essentially forced to disparage and criticize an old friend in public.
I'll lay off on Sarah when she clears this matter up publicly. Until then she is the picture of insanity. Her ties to the extreme right wing christian movement in the US are very creepy.
Andrew