PANIC STRIKES THE BACKERS OF SARAH PALIN. THE NOISE MACHINE CRANKS UP A FULL COURT BLITZ FOR MRS. TODD PALIN.
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We should expect to see intense efforts on the part of religious backers of Palin defending her elevation to the McCain ticket irregardless of her non-existent foreign policy qualifications for high national office.
Writing for Christianity Today, Rich Tatum spent a good deal of carefully chosen words glossing over the raging controversy arising from Palin’s upbringing, faith experience, and membership in the Assemblies of God.
Tatum’s article "All You Need to Know About the Assemblies of God"
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Tatum used carefully placed modifiers and wording to smooth over the rough spots connected to AoG history (racial overtones at its founding) and on going controversies arising out of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal/Charismatic sect that has had a long record of spectacular scandal, fraud, and downright bazaar occurrences/manifestations.
Case in point: Tatum’s failure to include TV mega-millions evangelist, the jet setting, John Hagee in the list of AoG notables. Hagee as a well-known AoG seminary trained former AoG pastor. Hagee was omitted by Tatum when listing other AoG’s with notorious records: Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Benny Hinn.
It’s Hagee, whose endorsement of McCain, GOP campaign professionals ruled too scurrilous and inflaming to accept. The need for damage control caused John McCain to awkwardly bulk and outright reject Hagee because of Hagee’s flame throwing theology and hardball Christian Zionism.
Christianty Today’s feature article, A primer for Palin watchers and others.
by Rich Tatum, an Assemblies of God member himself, shines a carefully trimmed light on his denomination, what it believes, and what effect it may have on Palin's policies and decisions. Voters do well to look into the background and track record of leadership produced by this freewheeling, prophetic and devil chasing sect.
The Assemblies of God is taking a lot of heat and getting some unwanted publicity and scrutiny concerning the particulars and the peculiarities of its faith and practice.
Tatum has carefully constructed an apology for Palin which he hopes will weld Evangelicals and Mainline Christians to her candidacy. At the same time Tatum does not alienate nominal Catholics, religious Jews, and/or spook secular voters. While his work is worthy of a good effort, it falls short in giving a comprehensive assessment of how Assemblies of God tradition and practices could have a serious and harmful effect in the person of Sarah Palin--as a potential Vice President and, if elected, President of the United States.
Palin’s worldview is so limited, so doctrinally damaged, and so rooted in Pentecostal myth-a-fying as to undermine her judgment and ability to deal with the real world especially in grave crisis situations.
The McCain Camp chose Palin to beef-up and sex-a-fy the bland McCain ticket. Palin is the handmaiden of very aggressive and clever neo-con, far right religious leaders who inhabit the Council for National Policy (CNP) whose members vetted her for this presidential race. If we could know more about the CNP’s goals and aspirations we would know more about why Sarah was their perfect choice.
Palin’s Assembly of God membership of nearly 25 years goes directly to her probity as a candidate for Vice President. Opportunistic or side show qualities or not, Sarah is deeply a part and a product of the Pentecostal experience on steroids. Part of her present appeal is her directness and that "narrative" which Peggy Noonan (famous Ronald Reagan speech writer) used, in very unflattering terms, to describe the Palin choice.
Leadership is fundamental, preparation and qualifications, essential. Palin has appealing leadership style and format but ruefully, totally lacks the preparation, wider-world background, and acumen to be Vice President. Sarah as a single-minded provincial has great celeb appeal. A "trophy V.P. pick." Mrs. Todd Palin constitutes a serious potential danger to the country and the world.
Point made, Game over.