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A Central Florida organization, "The Community Issues Council" has funded a number of billboards attacking the separation of Church and State, using "Quotes" from some of the Founding Fathers.
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Most of you in Indiana may know about Peter Heck, who hosts a daily radio show in Kokomo and puts out a column that appears in several newspapers across the state and in OneNewsNow. Well, Heck's latest column suggests that the source of this country's unity is Christianity--and walking away from it is an invitation to disaster. But there's a reason that peaceful Muslims have found it safer to live in this country than in those founded on Islamic law. There's a reason atheists have found it safer to live in this country than in those founded on the absence of moral authority. It's because our founders made Christian principle our cultural foundation. And that's something that if we're wise, no amount of diversity will ever change. Heck's ignorance of history is staggering--and dangerous, in light of the fact his column is distributed nationally on OneNewsNow. Unfortunately, this misguided view has become an article of faith for the religious right. As most of us know, the religious right tends to wrap the cross in the American flag. |
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You may remember that Lou Engle has made moves of late to position himself as the new power in the religious right. He's a member of the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, a group of NAR leaders chaired by Peter Wagner. For some time, Wagner has been the real puppetmaster of the religious right. As I mentioned a few days ago, Wagner, Engle and Co. believe that Jesus can't come back until Christians take over the world and put down all opposition to them. It's fascism, plain and simple. Well, Engle's got a new boss--Cindy Jacobs, a gal who makes Wagner look sane. In late 2008 or early 2009, Wagner stepped down as chairman of the ACPE--and endorsed Jacobs as his successor. |
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James F. Linzey is a prominent, active duty chaplain in the United States military. Linzey has stated that he was the command chaplain for the Operation Iraqi Freedom troop mobilization prior to the US invasion of Iraq.
In 2005 Linzey went on a speaking tour, under the auspices of an entity known as the Prophecy Club. In one of Linzey's Prophecy Club talks, which was recorded and sold by the club in VHS video format, Linzey claimed that "The Rothschilds", and European bankers who all have Jewish names except for "The Rockefellers", control the US economy through the Federal Reserve and are scheming to bankrupt, and enslave through debt, the American middle class. As an article on the website of the Jewish anti-Defamation League entitled Jewish "Control" of the Federal Reserve: A Classic Anti-Semitic Myth states,
"Most of the owners of the largest banks in America," wrote the late Sheldon Emry, an early leader of the racist and anti-Semitic `Identity" church movement, "are of Eastern European ancestry and connected with the Rothschild banks."
In the literature of bigots, the name Rothschild is a trigger for the most explosive of anti-Semitic tremors, and it usually sets off a litany of other Jewish names. In his recent book Called to Serve, Col. James "Bo" Gritz, the 1992 Presidential candidate of the extremist Populist Party, charged that "eight Jewish families control the FED" (Federal Reserve System).
In 1983, the charge that Rothschild banks and other international banking concerns, mostly with Jewish names, controlled the Federal Reserve was published (probably from earlier sources) in the newsletter of a local Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) -- not an extremist group. The article stated that the Federal Reserve System "is not a Federal entity but a private corporation owned in part by the following: Rothschild banks of London and Berlin, Lazard Brothers bank of Paris, Israel Moses Seif banks of Italy, Warburg bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam, Lehman Bros. bank of New York, Chase Manhattan bank of New York, Kuhn, Loeb bank of New York, Goldman Sachs bank of New York."
Not only did Linzey promote this classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in his 2005 Prophecy Club talk, Linzey even cited writing by the very Christian Identity writer noted in the ADL story, Sheldon Emry, as evidence supporting his banking conspiracy theory.
But in a series of radio show appearances Linzey made in concert with his Prophecy Club tour, Linzey went on to claim that the International bankers he said ruled America were conspiring to send a wave of 5 million Mexican and illegal alien killers across the border into the United States, to rape Caucasian American women and their teenage daughters, and kill American Caucasian men and so alter the country's ethnic and racial makeup. Linzey claimed the Mexican/illegal alien rapist/killer army would slaughter 25 million Americans in what would be a "Holocaust."
In the radio show appearances chaplain Linzey describes joining The Minutemen vigilante border patrol group, befriending Minuteman founder James Gilchrist, holding a religious service for Minutemen members, and patrolling the US/Mexico border for the Minutemen effort.
In his 2005 Prophecy Club video Linzey declared,
"Remember, the demons believe in Jesus Christ. They believe in the truth -- see that's Jesus Christ -- and they tremble. And so the demons inside these greedy world bankers are trembling that Americans would come to find the truth about what they're all about. They are as scared as little tiny mice running up and down the curtains in the cathedrals. Now, they're in the cathedrals. They're in the churches. They're controlling pulpits. That's how mainstream Protestantism has declined. Because they invaded the churches, and the mainstream Protestant churches stopped hearing the truth. So they want to squelch the truth by taking over the church. Now, this is not in my notes, but I was inspired by God because these are demonic, dastardly creatures from the pit of hell, and we need to stomp them out."
Below are transcripts from two radio shows James F. Linzey appeared on during April and March 2005. |
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An 89 year old, vehemently antiSemitic Ron Paul supporter has been named by police as the gunman who opened fire in the Holocaust Museum shortly after noon today:
Gunman, guard shot at Holocaust museum
A person reportedly walked into the museum with a gun and shot a guard
NBC News and news services
updated 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. One security guard and the gunman were taken to a hospital.
Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, NBC News reported. NBC said he may have had connections to hate groups or anti-government groups. |
I didn't think my work on the religous right would converge with what I'm doing on the narcoguerra in Mexico...but here it is: the Faith-Based Cartel. |
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The participation by an "out" Pagan in the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force proves that some religions will accept and welcome help from all quarters, in recognition that we are all human. The glaring absence of certain high-profile churches and leaders in the area, however, speaks to an elitist mindset that seeks only to further political agendas. |
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Hear me discuss the Tiller assasination this week on the nationally syndicated radio program CounterSpin, the progressive media criticism show produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). You can also listen via Mp3 and Real Audio. The program airs on about 140 stations. To find out if and when it airs in your area, click here. |
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In what can charitably be described as an act of desperation, Liberty Counsel is asking the IRS to investigate Americans United's tax-exempt status. This comes only days after AU asked the IRS to investigate Liberty's tax-exempt status for withdrawing recognition from its College Democrats chapter while allowing the College Republicans to continue to exist. The complaint follows last week’s letter by AU against Liberty University. According to Jerry Falwell Jr., Chancellor and President of Liberty University, "When Americans United filed their frivolous complaint against Liberty University, we decided we had had enough of their malicious threats. We will not be intimated by this organization." Read the compliant here. There's a reason that something like this hasn't been tried before. This is nothing more than a thinly-disguised SLAPP action, and one can only hope the IRS recognizes it as such. |
I read today that Westboro Baptist staged a protest at a vigil held for Dr. Tiller in Wichita. I'm not surprised, but what did surprise me was that they had 20 people there to join in. |
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Via OneNewsNow, I discovered a story by former Southern Baptist Convention president Morris Chapman that appears to call for SBC churches to begin setting up Christian schools. I now wonder if our focus in the evangelical community should shift at least in part from training our children during the transition to adulthood to placing greater emphasis on training up a child in the way he should go. I'm not advocating the neglect of what we have already established in higher education, but simply a course correction in an area that seems to have suffered neglect -- the protection and nurturing of the spiritual health and growth of children and adolescents. In far too many public schools throughout the country our children are being bombarded with secular reasoning, situational ethics and moral erosion. Chapman calls for Southern Baptist churches to cooperate in setting up "Kingdom schools" to help train their kids. In a rather incredible statement, he actually suggests they could actually help kids survive in the real world. I find that hard to believe, given my experience of being around people who spent most of their youth in Christian cocoons. |
Colonel "Jim" Ammerman was listed as being an apostle in C. Peter Wagner's International Coalition of Apostles [see ICA prospectus] from the organization's inception in 2001 through to December 2008. The ICA is one of the main entities in Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation, a movement rapidly coalescing out of the Apostolic networks that have arisen in Third Wave Christianity.
Ted Haggard, another major leader in Wagner's movement, worked closely with Peter Wagner for over a decade. Another prominent member of Wagner's movement, Sarah Palin joined the Wasilla, Alaska prayer group of Mary Glazier in 1990, around the time Palin decided to go into politics according to Glazier.
A February 2009 Charisma Magazine article confirmed the Palin-Glazier relationship was ongoing, and Glazier, who serves with Wagner in his elite Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders (ACPE). Dutch Sheets, also an ACPE member made a January 7, 2009 appearance, along with Glazier, at Sarah Palin's most significant Alaska church, the Wasilla Assembly of God. During the ceremony, Sheets declared that Glazier "was the lady who brought us [the NAR] into Alaska."
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