No, not Palin exactly but Morningstar Ministries founder and head Rick Joyner, Saracuda's self-proclaimed spiritual guru. Palin has had some very positive things to say about Joyner's "spiritual leadership" of MM and as Bruce Wilson writes at the HuffPost, Joyner is way out in front when it comes to promoting authoritarian theocracy.
Even some of Sarah Palin's most dedicated fans might be taken aback by Joyner's enthusiastic advocacy for an authoritarian religious state. In a "prophecy" published June 19, 2007, Rick Joyner wrote, "The kingdom of God will not be socialism, but a freedom even greater than anyone on earth knows at this time. At first it may seem like totalitarianism ... Instead of taking away liberties and becoming more domineering, the kingdom will move from a point of necessary control while people are learning truth, integrity, honor, and how to make decisions, to increasing liberty so that they can."
IOW, Xtian re-education camps where one's "freedom" will be a function and result of parroting the appropriate Xtian slogans - you know, like Chinese dissidents were freed after they answered every question with a quotation from Mao's Little Red Book. Same deal. Sarah thinks such a system would be jolly good fun.
Morningstar Ministries promotes the idea that a "last day army" of supernaturally equipped young Christians will conquer and cleanse all evil from the Earth, and a conference advertisement on the Morningstar website features a music track with the refrain, "There is a new generation rising up in power, there is a last day army rising up for war." Militant themes are common at the church.
At a revival event held during the week of August 7-13, 2008, Morningstar Executive Vice President Steve Thompson gave a frenzied exhortation to an excited crowd, "See, Jesus is waiting seated at the right hand of the Father, having all authority on Heaven and on Earth, having commissioned and empowered and deployed his disciples to go out and enforce the victory and the judgment that he won over the enemy and waiting until his people rise up and demonstrate their glory and those enemies are put under the feet of the body of Christ !" Thompson's war cry was very similar to that chronicled by journalist Max Blumenthal, who attended a September 2008 service at the Wasilla Assembly of God during which a Russian pastor declared, "We stomp on the heads of the enemy !"
Nothing like a war. Sarah can see herself clad in shiny armor like Joan of Arc, mounted on a terribly male and very erect white charger with the sword of ExBushiber shining in her hand and looking tres cute in her Vuitton boots.
Meanwhile, Tina Fey just got an Emmy for impersonating her.
Employing her award-winning Palin-speak, Fey then issued some serious dish at the departed governor of Alaska: "Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before Fourth of July weekend. You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin."
Will the real Sarahcuda please stand up?
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