Sarah Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'
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Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 3, 10:48 PM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her
former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on
a "task that is from God."
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also
urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural
gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her
eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she
said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there
is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God's Web site
before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.
Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I
need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of
Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from
the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to
bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas
line built, so pray for that," she said.
"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things
like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop
cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools
are funded," she added. "But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if
the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."
Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until
2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has
continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious
conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain's running mate.
The Assemblies of God, which claims nearly 3 million members, is one of the
biggest Pentecostal groups in the U.S. Unlike most other Christians -
including most evangelicals - Pentecostals believe in "baptism in the Holy
Spirit." That can manifest itself through speaking in tongues, modern-day
prophesy and faith healing. The Assemblies of God teaches that spirit
baptism must be accompanied by speaking in tongues. Still, some churchgoers
never have the experience.
Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and
State, lamented Palin's comments.
"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered
political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse
religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people
and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of
national pastor and bring people to God."
The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were
posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the
site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last
few days."
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of what "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit" is all about. Sarah Palin.
Third Wave of the Holy Spirit.
Sarah Palin belongs to a Neo-Pentecostal, Charismatic cult which is
considered, even by some of the most outspoken of evangelicals, as
"heretical" in its vehemence, its alleged perpetration of supernatural
attacks, and its wackiness. They are the fringe of the fringe in the
area of lunacy, and they are more dangerous than you could possibly believe.
And there are people who are about to enter the polling booth that can't
see past her pro-life stance, her pretty face and her aw shucks demeanor
to understand that she is a woman who believes in concentrated psychic
attack against those who would oppose her.
But here's the thing--this woman is as much an enemy of Christians as
she is of non-Christians...but a lot of Christians don't want to talk
about that, because they don't want those secular madmen, Obama and
Biden, to take office. They are blinding themselves to the fact that
this woman adheres to a doctrine that even they cannot theologically
support, just because she wants to keep unwanted fetuses in unwilling
wombs and Creationism in science classes and "In God We Trust" on the
green stuff enough to vote for her.
It's clear that Sarah Palin has declared unashamed and unvarnished
spiritual warfare on anyone who falls outside her narrow viewpoint--and
that includes Pagans, Atheists, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics....and
other fundamentalist Christians. She associates herself with a church
that not only disapproves of "these kinds of people", but believes in
their total obliteration via forced evangelization and conversion.
Now that she and her cronies have Kenya out of the way, she can now turn
her attention, with her newfound national recognition, to eliminating
what she doesn't like about America--and what she doesn't like, my
friends, is you.
It's clear to me that if we aren't aware of that, and refuse to think
with our brains instead of our desire to eliminate gender bias in
politics, or, even more horrifically, think that it isn't all that
important, then we are about to see a very interesting four years ahead.
The stakes are very high--higher than you can imagine, and a word to the
wise is sufficient.
And if I'm preaching to the choir, mea culpa. But it scares me to think
that even one person reading this would even dream of casting a vote
that would help this woman into a position of power, and I think that
sharing these links might even turn your most conservative adversaries a
little closer to your way of thinking.