On July 13, 2008, Mary Glazier told NAR head C. Peter Wagner, and other top NAR leaders, that Sarah Palin had joined Glazier's prayer group in 1989, at around the time Palin decided to go into politics. Glazier went on to advocate waging a total religious war
"There is a tipping point at which, because of the sin of the land, the people then have to be displaced. But while this measure of wickedness is rising, the measure of faith in the church is rising.
God is preparing a people to displace the ones whose sin is rising so that then they tip over and the church goes in - one is removed and the church goes in and takes the territory.
Now, that does not mean that the people are removed, because God removes the from the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Light.
They are given an opportunity to change allegiances." - Mary Glazier, July 13, 2008, to C. Peter Wagner and top leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, Everett, Washington
As the conclusion of the 2008 US presidential election draws near it seems almost certain the election will be regarded, for a number of reasons, as singular in American history.
But perhaps the most singular aspect of the election has gone almost totally unnoticed and the fact is not merely an indictment of the media but also the American political establishment.
Sarah Palin has direct, confirmed ties with two top leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement.
One of those leaders, Mary Glazier, has advocated religious war and religious cleansing, to displace and take the territory of 'sinful' populations.
Palin has been blessed, anointed and endorsed as a politician by a second NAR leader who, while Palin was present, urged movement members to 'infiltrate' government, finance and other key sectors of society and who implied a coming transfer would give the wealth of the 'wicked' to the 'righteous'.
Thomas Muthee is a "valued personal friend" (according to Wagner) of C. Peter Wagner, head of the New Apostolic Reformation who proclaimed, on June 21, 2006, that "God has declared through His prophets that the wealth of the wicked will be released to the Kingdom of God," and Wagner declared, threateningly, "the enemies' camp will be plundered."
Through Thomas Muthee and his "valued personal friend" C. Peter Wagner, Sarah Palin is tied to a sectarian, religiously based wealth transfer scheme to which atheists and non-Christians need not apply.
The scandal, of a near total failure of media to investigate Sarah Palin's possible religious views, rises to an even greater level of irresponsibility given that, in a July 13, 2008 speech to the highest level leadership of the New Apostolic Reformation Mary Glazier, a top leader in the movement, revealed that Sarah Palin had joined Glazier's prayer warfare group in 1989. Evidence for Palin's association with Glazier's prayer group was strengthened in a October 24th, 2008 New York Times story by reporter Laurie Goodstein.
On July 13, 2008, Mary Glazier told NAR head C. Peter Wagner, and other top NAR leaders, that Sarah Palin had joined Glazier's prayer group in 1989, at around the time Palin decided to go into politics. Glazier went on to advocate waging a total religious war:
"There is a tipping point at which, because of the sin of the land, the people then have to be displaced. But while this measure of wickedness is rising, the measure of faith in the church is rising.
God is preparing a people to displace the ones whose sin is rising so that then they tip over and the church goes in - one is removed and the church goes in and takes the territory.
Now, that does not mean that the people are removed, because God removes the from the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Light.
They are given an opportunity to change allegiances." - Mary Glazier, July 13, 2008, to C. Peter Wagner and top leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, Everett, Washington
Glazier's expectation, that her movement will soon fight a total religious war, is not an aberration. It is, in keeping with details explored in a new 36 page report on Sarah Palin's most likely religious affiliation, fully in keeping with statements from, and activities carried out by, the top leadership of the New Apostolic Reformation.
Sarah Palin's ties, to religious leaders who have advocated a wealth redistribution plan, based on sectarian religious affiliation, which would 'plunder' the wealth of members outside of Palin's religious sect and give that wealth to members in Palin's political and religious movement, raise basic questions about Palin's commitment to pluralist democracy.
But, the failure in media coverage of Palin's religious affiliations also raises questions about American media figures who purport to cover religion and politics.
In Sarah Palin's candidacy America has been faced with the prospect of gaining a Vice President, who would be a heartbeat away from the US Presidency should John McCain and Sarah Palin win the 2008 election, who is closely and extensively linked to churches and leaders in a movement that advocates a forced wealth transfer, from the 'godless' to its members and which espouses a program of total religious cleansing, in effect religious warfare, during which unbelievers would be forced to convert to the New Apostolic Reformation's particular interpretation of Christianity or else be driven from 'the land'.
Not only American mainstream media but much of alternative American media, the American political left, and elements of the American right which hold the values of democratic pluralism, have failed to scrutinize Sarah Palin's close association with an international, globally influential and rapidly growing religious movement whose top leader has decreed a divine mandate for movement followers to 'plunder' the wealth of the 'godless' and which holds all competing religious and philosophical systems on Earth to be invalid and under demon influence.
American Democracy, if we can manage to keep it, deserves better.
A new 36 page report ( read online / PDF file / some of the highlights of the report ), from an independent research team that has specialized in studying Sarah Palin's faith, contains ground breaking information on a religious movement Sarah Palin is tied to and which advocates that its members "plunder" the wealth of the "godless".