{"id":5410,"date":"2011-07-17T01:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T08:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2011-07-17T01:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T08:06:40","slug":"more-pastor-perry-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/more-pastor-perry-views\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pastor Perry Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor Rick Perry (R-TX) claims that he is called by God to minister the Gospel through holding political office.  He does not seem to care that the establishment clause isn\u2019t too accepting of evangelization through government.  Aside from all his insistence on faith and patriotism, except when he talks about seceding, his views are both anti-American and anti-Christian.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"PerryHat\"It’s important that Democrats inform themselves all about the dangerous religious extremists with whom Texas Gov. Rick Perry <\/font>is aligning himself:<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

So you have to wonder: Is Rick Perry God\u2019s man for president?<\/font><\/p>\n

Schlueter, Long and other prayer warriors in a little-known but increasingly influential movement at the periphery of American Christianity seem to think so. The movement is called the New Apostolic Reformation. Believers fashion themselves modern-day prophets and apostles. <\/font>They have taken Pentecostalism, with its emphasis on ecstatic worship and the supernatural, and given it an adrenaline shot.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The movement\u2019s top prophets and apostles believe they have a direct line to God. Through them, they say, He communicates specific instructions and warnings. When mankind fails to heed the prophecies, the results can be catastrophic: earthquakes in Japan, terrorist attacks in New York, and economic collapse. On the other hand, they believe their God-given decrees have ended mad cow disease in Germany and produced rain in drought-stricken Texas.<\/font><\/p>\n

Their beliefs can tend toward the bizarre. Some consider Freemasonry a \u201cdemonic stronghold\u201d tantamount to witchcraft. <\/font>The Democratic Party, one prominent member believes, is controlled by Jezebel and three lesser demons. Some prophets even claim to have seen demons at public meetings. They\u2019ve taken biblical literalism to an extreme. In Texas, they engage in elaborate ceremonies involving branding irons, plumb lines and stakes inscribed with biblical passages driven into the earth of every Texas county.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the video from the article:<\/font><\/p>\n