October 4th 2008
The Palin-Haters Find Their Own Rev. Wright
T
he radical left has found its answer to Rev. Wright’s ranting, anti-American, anti-Jew sermons, the sermons Obama listened to for twenty years, but denies ever hearing. (Did he sleep in the pews or did he lie?)
The morally trashed left lucked out because their video shows Sarah Palin being prayed for, so we know she was there; no question about it. And to the leftists, the prayer of the guest speaker at her former Wasilla Community Church, Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee, sounds just as threatening as Wright’s sounded to us:
He wants grace and favor for Sarah Palin. He wants God’s presence felt in politics, in education, in government. He wants the 10 Commandments to be taught in school again, rather than Buddhism and Islam. The horror! He wants politicians who love God to be elected to office. The shame! He wants government officials, even presidents and Secretaries of State, to be believers. Secularist apostasy!
And he prays all this in the name of Jesus, as Palin’s pastors have their hands on her shoulders. It’s funky charismatic Christianity on display, ripe for hip, metro ridicule.
Here’s the long version of the prayer with the warm-up and handy subtexts decrying the foulness of it all:
And here’s a shorter version, which starts with the hands-on prayer, after the warm-up. It’s called “Sarah Palin, Thomas Muthee and witchcraft.”
What you’re seeing here may not happen in a Methodist or Episcopalian church every Sunday - heck, it doesn’t happen in most evangelical churches every Sunday. This was a visiting pastor from Kenya, where there is a very robust and charismatic Christianity, a type of Christianity lived by millions of Christians around the world, including our own charismatics, like my very good lifetime friend Peter. Outside our Eurocentric, refined Christianity, the faith often takes on a more spirited application with prayers against evil spirits - because on the other side there are witch doctors and shamen who work to summon those spirits up.
One would think the rules of political correctness would protect these folks, representative as they are of an older society, more pure and primitive. Think again.
Muthee, at the end of his prayer, prays for protection for Sarah Palin against witchcraft. The actual words are garbled, but it immediately follows a prayer for protection from “the enemy,” Satan, so it is a biblical prayer of protection against those - the radical American Left comes to mind - who would work actively to stymie the work of God, whether it’s done in the name of Satan or enlightened secularism. But it’s that mention of witchcraft that gives the Left it’s hook.
You all remember Mark Morford, author of an entry in this year’s Most Ridiculous Story competition, Is Obama an Enlightened Being? In that story, Morford is very comfortable with tying spirituality to the president … as long as it’s his kind of spirituality.
Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.
This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don’t understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama’s aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.
To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?
No, it’s not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. …
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare.
So it’s OK to have Lightworkers in politics, but it is definitely not OK to have God in politics. That’s Worford’s new beef, as expressed in his column yesterday, Witches Begone! Sarah Palin was de-witched by nutball pastor? What a shame.
Did you see the infamous grainy YouTube video? Did you read the disquieting little sidebar story about Muthee and his now-infamous witch huntin’ treks down to Kenya, like that time he stormed into a village and formed an angry mob to drive out an old woman by the name of “Mama Jane” who was supposedly causing illness and traffic accidents and really crappy Wi-Fi connections at the local Starbucks? Charming.
Have you read, furthermore, about Palin’s adorable Pentecostal church where Muthee preached, where they like to speak in tongues and lick the skins of serpents and watch NASCAR while shooting moose from the backs of animatronic dinosaurs adorned with “Jesus is My Co-Pilot” bumper stickers? (Note: possible slight exaggeration. But not by much.) It’s all sorts of Disney-on-acid fun. [Hey, Morford, just for fun, why do you try to write this kind of demeaning "possible slight exaggeration" about what goes on in your local mosque. C'mon, Morf! I dare you!]
As for Palin, turns out Muthee laid on some hands, delivered a garbled serpents n’ brimstone prayer designed not merely to help her leap from Mayor of Nowheresville to perky gubernatorial fireplug, only to later become, thanks to McCain’s appalling judgment, the most insulting caricature of female empowerment in modern history who, as the VP debate painfully revealed, still knows not a single substantive thing about American domestic or foreign policy, but also to protect her from that same silly/terrifying witchcraft I imagined in my youth.
This is what passes for witticism in San Francisco. Attack religion, unless it’s your hip, New Age religion. Attack any woman who strays from the narrow path of feminist orthodoxy, and do it all in a sneering tone that ridicules all the rest of America.
Morford’s a punk, a little man in a dirty city, easy to dismiss as meaningless. Then there’s Keith Olbermann, who views the video clip and pronounces, “This is starting to sound startling enough to be terrifying.” He also says of Muthee, “He makes Father Flannigan of Boy’s Town look like Jeremiah Wright.” Here’s the clip, which ridicules a lot of standard evangelical beliefs, and which Olbermann tries mightily to make Muthee into a modern-day Salem-creator and spiritual good buddy of Palin:
Mock, mock, mock. Maybe we Christians look silly when we pray against evil. But does Olbermann mock the death penalty foes when they’re praying outside the prison for God to stop the execution? Of course not! Those are his Christians, to be praised. Does he mock the anti-war Christians who pray at the munitions plants and Army induction centers? Of course not; they are above reproach.
But when the same belief in prayer is applied to a Republican, oh my! We see the vile hypocrisy of the American Left in all it’s glory.
By the way, even as Olbermann dresses it up, Muthee’s witch-hunting is hardly the stuff of Salem legend. He offered the spiritualist an out: leave town, or we’ll pray against you. She stayed. They prayed. Then the police - not the church - raided her shop and shot a snake - not her - and she left town.
Let us pray. God, save us from them and all they would do to our country.
Hat-tip: Marshall
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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October 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It’s so easy to see just how wrong Christianity is. I was one for 23 years before I saw the light.
Just view this one video… just this one and then take a minute and think. It will only take moments of your time.
Just watch it. If you have faith in what you believe you should be able to watch this and be unmoved. If you REALLY have faith, watch the whole series.
Watch it before you reply to this post and see if you actually have a rational argument to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVuw1wEuaAQ
October 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
One of our mutual blogfriends, Patrick the Paragraph Farmer, pointed out that in Kenya, there is a strong belief in witches — and that it’s very un-PC of the Left to make fun of the beliefs that animate another culture, especially an African culture.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am
BWR - true, but one of the prime tenets of multiculturalism is that anything relating to Western culture is inferior. In this case, a prayer being said about a defender of that culture is sufficient to bring into the ambit. While the secular left tolerates religion so long as it is directed towards tearing down Western Civilization - i.e., Islam, Black Liberation Theology - anything else is detestably . . . I think the proper term now is ‘religuous.’
October 5th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Brian C — Your video was pulled. Get back to your superiors on Obama’s fast response team for links to another one.
You are aware that there are many good Christians that do many good things, don’t you? You are aware of recent studies that show the religious are more generous, tend to volunteer more often and are generally better behaved than atheists, aren’t you?
You are aware that Obama is a Christian, aren’t you? Perhaps you believe otherwise.
Perhaps you are also aware that Dr. Francis Collins, head of the human genome project, tried, using available evidence, to convince himself that God didn’t exist. He found no proof to support the absence or the existence of God. Interestingly enough, he found far more evidence to support the existence of God than the absense of God.
He’s now a Christian, and believes his faith makes him a better scientist. He asserts that science and faith are not mutually exclusive, but completely complimentary of one another.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Wow. Imagine how much more terrified the pagan Left would be if video of Gov. Palin’s childhood Catholic Christian baptism surfaced. Or her Christian heterosexual wedding ceremony in which she married Todd Palin. The pagan Left crowd would go into unstoppable spasms of screaming.