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Palin's Pastor Problem
Reverend Thomas Muthee speaks in tongues and says Palin's political rise is part of God's grand plan.
When John McCain’s campaign began to falter in the face of financial disaster, running mate Sarah Palin resurrected the issue of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the incendiary one-time pastor of Barack Obama’s church in Chicago.
It’s a risky tactic because Palin has a pastor problem of her own, although for now it is mostly confined to a few grainy YouTube videos spirited out of the Assembly of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, where Palin and her family worshipped for 35 years.
"I believe that our population, one day, will lose their rights because of people like Sarah," says one Alaska Republican. "We'll have a political doctrine that will be church doctrine."
Palin has so far escaped close questioning about her religious beliefs, and the McCain camp refuses even to state what her religion is, beyond saying she was baptized a Catholic.
But judging from our visits to several churches in Wasilla—as well as this exclusive new documentary by filmmaker Max Blumenthal—that may be about to change. And Reverend Thomas Muthee should probably prepare for his close up in the national news media.
Rev. Muthee is a Pentecostal firebrand notorious in his native Kenya for his witch hunts, for example banishing a woman named Mama Jane from a village in Kenya, and then claiming that crime went down. He is also a popular visiting preacher on the Pentecostal church circuit in Alaska’s Mat-Su valley.
In Blumenthal’s documentary, Muthee is seen speaking in tongues at the Wasilla AG church. This film also incorporates the footage from church videos that popped up on the internet last month.
In the first, shot in 2005, Rev. Muthee prays over Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin, “anointing” her political ambitions, declaring, “every form of witchcraft, it will be rebuked in the name of Jesus,” and asking the Lord to “make a way, and let her do the next step. Father, make her way now. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
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Perhaps Gov. Palin's "gifting" is to obtain political power, for the purpose of saving our souls? After all wasn't it President Bush who stated that he was "driven with a mission from God" to fight the terrorist in
Afghanistan and end the tyranny in Iraq?
Fighting terrorism has been the justification for two disastrous wars, starting with Afghanistan and continuing with Iraq. U.S. heavyhandedness over the past seven years has created more terrorists than it has killed or captured in Afghansitan or Iraq. The politics of fear and religious fanaticism unfortunately has become a cancer for which there does not appear to be a cure. Unless Rev. Muthee has an "anoitment" for that as well?
SING
What's wacky about Wasilla?
Those snow machines and trucks!
What's weird about Wasillans?
The cheap trick they put over on us!
What's worrisome out of Wasilla?
Muthee's prayers about pythons and witches!
Won't somebody go to Wasilla
And school those sonofab*tches!?!
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We reject wind-up dolls we want leaders who think,
We abhor wrinkled noses, fake smiles, and wink-wink.
Wacky, weird, worrisome Wasilla,
Not your average brand of vanilla.
Why don't more people in AK speak out especially on this issue. She scares the hell out of me and many of my friends. What is sad is that they are hoping and praying that McCain wins and soon after he is elected they will be praying for his death and that nut case will be our president. Hell no. If people don't start standing up for all of our rights than we are in bad shape. She must be outed and sent back to AK. Hopefully those people will have enough sense to impeach her.
You I wonder if this administration and the extreme right religious nut jobs are not sent by god but maybe in sheeps clothing and are actually the devil battilion.
I can not imagine how stupid we American are. It's true that all politicians are crooked but Sarah Palin has reached a new level. I strongly believe that she abused her power but somehow, some americans manages to overlook at that because she is a fairly attractive white lady. Perhaps, her rise in the political arena is a sign of Biblical fulfilment as it mentioned in the bible the first shal become last which is the direction in which America is heading especially if Palin and Mckain were to become Vice President President
Does anyone think that the cancellation of the popular television show "Men in Trees" (which clearly made fun of Alaskan life with questionable moral and even illegal 'entertainment'during the blackout winter) was in anyway connected to Palin's V.P. candidacy?
ggralph, you are so right. I would like to know where in the heck do these republicans think they have a right to jesus only? My jesus would be applauded by what the republican party is doing. After all what happened to help the lest of our people. Jesus didn't mean rich people only. Shame on the republican party for hijacking jesus.
I don't know. I have never see the show. I do have a neice that lives in AK in a remote area and she doesn't like Palin. My niece is a outdoor kid of a person and hunts deer, bear, fish, she said that the bears would come thru their yard some times. She sent me pictures of them fishing and there were a group of bear fishing also. Wow she can have that part of the country. I was in the state of Montana and that was enough wild country for me. Besides being to cold and to much snow. No thanks give me the warm states.
How has it become comparable to "Hate speech" (See also Rev Wright), to merely have a belief that a power greater than yourself helps guide you? In this political climate it seems that just having beliefs different than someone else makes one a target for (wait for the irony) people saying you are ushering in a climate of religious intolerance! If no one who believes as I do is allowed a voice anymore, how long will it be until I am the object of the scorn and violence you pretend to be in fear of?
Well Cmetian, as a catholic living in the bible belt in a small town in TN I can honestly say at times I feel like I am an outsider. When people in general talk about religion they usually will say Jews, Muslims, christians and catholics. That burns me up. I am a catholic and we are christians. I feel since the religious right has shown up on the scene they are trying to mix it into our politics.
It is nothing short of terrifying that people with such extreme, radical, bizarre, & DANGEROUS religious beliefs are aggressively trying to grab political power in order ram their religious beliefs down the throats of everyone else. They show utter contempt for the doctrine of separation of church & state, which is enshrined in our constitution specifically in order to prevent the kind of thing Palin & other radical right-wing religious crazies are trying to foist upon us. Lest we forget, this country was founded by people who were persecuted by a government which punished anyone who refused to conform to the government's religuious beliefs.
It is crucial now for everyone who doesn't share Palin's warped world view to rise up & demand a full airing of her beliefs & agenda for turning the USA into an evangelical born-again Christian nation. She wants to destroy the freedom that makes us the greatest country on earth. We can't let her get away with this!!
Muthee exorcised Palins inner witch, but what he really should have done was exorcise her inner bitch. Maybe he just got confused with the proper American dialect.
Palin's friend said it best, "The idea of Palin becoming vice president "scares the shit out of me," If it scares her after knowing Palin for years, imagine how much more worried we should be for a huge percentage of the electorate still asking, "Who is Sarah Palin?" If some portion of the public still thinks she is that perky speaker who simply drops her "g's", they are not vetting her to be commander-in-chief. Palin's record of "governance" exposes a combination of cronyism and simple-minded tax-cutting as the answer to societal troubles -- accompanied of course by beliefs such as those exposed in this article. The combination is truly SCARY for those who care about individual rights, let alone how we could look to the rest of the world with this simple creature as our leader.
Apparently these latter day Jeebus heads don't listen to themselves, First, they tell you "it's God's plan," and next they blubber on about how belief is free will. Can't have it both ways; either god has a plan or he doesn't, either you're free to do something or you're constrained by a "plan." Make up my mind!
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