Palin 1x blessed 2b free from witchcraft

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 4:31am

At least the witch doctor blessed her instead of cursed her. lol.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/palin-once-blessed-to-be-free-from/n20080925013309990001

Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'

By GARANCE BURKE,AP
Posted: 2008-09-25 01:33:07

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.

The video shows Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft."

"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Palin's shoulders. "Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. ... Use her to turn this nation the other way around."

Palin filed campaign papers a few months later, in October 2005, and was elected governor the next year.

Palin does not say anything on the video and keeps her head bowed throughout the blessing. The Republican vice presidential candidate was baptized at the church but stopped attending regularly in 2002.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign declined to comment. A person who answered the phone at the Wasilla church confirmed the video was from May 2005 but declined further comment.

Palin was baptized Roman Catholic as a newborn.

Pentecostals are conservative in their reading of the Bible. Unlike most other Christians - including most evangelicals - Pentecostals believe in "baptism in the Holy Spirit." That can manifest itself through speaking in tongues, modern-day prophesy and faith healing, which includes the laying on of hands.

Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, has said Palin attends different churches and does not consider herself Pentecostal.

On a visit to the church in June 2008, Palin spoke fondly of the Kenyan pastor and told a group of young missionaries that Muthee's prayers had helped her to become governor.

"Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he's so bold," she said. "And he was praying 'Lord make a way, Lord make a way' ... He said, 'Lord make a way and let her do this next step.' And that's exactly what happened."

The Rev. Zipporah Ndiritu, who studied under Muthee in the Kiambu, Kenya-based Word of Faith Church, said the bishop is revered among evangelicals there. In a phone interview from Mombasa, Kenya, she said church doctrine focuses on ridding the world of demons - and witches.

"Even in the days of Jesus Christ, according to the Bible there were witches who were manifesting through demonic forces," she said. "You can seek from the Lord, and if you find demonic forces you cast them out."

Ndiritu said she did not know Palin.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 7:40pm

So she was talking about church, to chuch.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:05pm

It just seems like people are reaching too far to find something wrong with her religion.


You very well could be right.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:24pm
I have no problem with people worshipping in whatever way they wish, but they need to keep their religion out of their public job.

I agree, but we also don't really "know" her yet.

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 12:22am

No one is explaining away anything...except how McCain can lie and get away with it, how Sarah can not know what the heck she is talking about and be trusted to run Alaska let alone run for VP, and how a foreign witch doctor's culture is more respected than an American Black man, unable to let go of the anger at his country's leaders for injustices that happend to him and his people when the KKK ruled the streets in America.

That amazes me. Selective compassion doesn't exist...it's called bias. If it's negative about Sarah, look at how she and McCain are handling the questions surrounding them. Barack, when asked a question, answers it. BIG difference in how people perceive people that talk instead of hide. lol.

Sarah and McCain are secretive, untrustworthy and they continue to spew lies that the media had addressed with them. So, she is NOT given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to "unknowns" like a "witch doctor" that is suspected of running innocent women out of town. Just accusations, but with soooooo little information, the imagination works overtime. lol. BTW, if your vote is that flimsy, it was never FOR Barack.

((They would NEVER do the same for Palin or McCain. Watching the news is like watching an Obama Pep Rally! It's so biased I can't stand it.

I find it funny how all this information you posted explains how poor Reverend Wright was coming from. They never bother to find out why this VISITING pastor from Africa would have a prayer about witchcraft. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S THEIR CULTURE. ))

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 1:20am

((What does bother me is that from some of the statements she has made in church makes me question how much her religion/beliefs guide her public policy (i.e., basically stating that the gasline was God's will). That is the point where I draw the line. I have no problem with people worshipping in whatever way they wish, but they need to keep their religion out of their public job.))

Well said. I agree totally, and I question how public officials separate church and state. Compartmentalization, which I see some people do, is tough.

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 8:48am

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EXACTLY!!!

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Registered: 09-03-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 9:01am

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See, now here is, again, where I disagree with you.

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 4:21pm

Palin's pastor, Larry Kroon, invited the founder of Jews for Jesus, David Brickner, to speak at her church on August 17th, Politico's Ben Smith reported. According to its mission statement, Jews for Jesus is an organization that tries: "to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide."

Palin and her family were present in the church for Brickner's sermon, the full text of which can be found here. In the sermon, he made a number of inflammatory claims, most particularly about terrorist attacks in Israel. "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real," he opined. Speaking of his son, who had recently been in Jerusalem, he said: "When Isaac was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment -- you can't miss it."




The McCain campaign emphasized the fact that Brickner is not the church's usual pastor, and was just an invited guest. That's true. It doesn't explain, though, why Palin would attend a church that invites guys like Brickner to give sermons in the first place.


And while Palin's church might make Jewish voters look askance at the Republican ticket, gay voters will probably have similar concerns.



Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

"You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.


"I think gay Republicans are going to run away" if Palin supports efforts like the prayers to convert gays, said Wayne Besen, founder of the New York-based Truth Wins Out, a gay rights advocacy group. Besen called on Palin to publicly express her views now that she's a vice presidential nominee. "People are looking at Sarah Palin as someone who might feasibly be in the White House," he said.




For the record, I'm far more concerned with Palin's far-right worldview, credibility problems, ethical lapses, and lack of qualifications than I am her spiritual leaders. But if the political world considers Jeremiah Wright a major issue, then Palin's pastors should also draw at least some scrutiny.


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014592.php

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 3:14am

Do you think that it's fair that, say your boss makes 250,000 dollars more than you do, but he/she pays the same amount of taxes (by percentages) as you do? Well, call it what you like, but I don't think that 8 years of tax BREAKS and CUTS for the rich, is fair. Not when the gov't that put those tax breaks and cuts in place is corrupt and deceptive.

As far as anyone presuming to know WHEN life begins when he/she can not MAKE a life - which only GOD can do- he/she is arrogant, delusional, or stupid. Being able to merely serve as a vessel for the created life does not make he/she a "giver" of life. Even surgeons know this - Except that one that Alec Baldwin played in "Malice". lol.

Have you seen Palin in an interview? Very painful to watch her squirm. Charlie and Katie had to repeatedly ask her the same question, because she danced all around it. And John McCain with that blank stare...lol. He's notorious for changing the subject. Let's touch on those examples of McCain/Palin avoiding a question aka "mishandling information". lol. Either they did not know it and was too arrogant to say so or they just withheld what they knew and thus lied by omission. Either way, there are not any do overs in the WH.

((((Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.....

....Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you. )))))

((( Christine PelosiPosted September 24, 2008 | 04:58 PM (EST)
McCain Suspension: Avoiding Our Questions Won't Make Them Go Away)))))

((((McCain avoids question on Viagra - MSN Video
this video is rather funny. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=6b1c7ba5-c43e-46ac-ba7e-6d7984ac588f&fg=rss&from=34))))

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Sat, 09-27-2008 - 6:26am

The bottom line is this....absolutely EVERYTHING the media prints or says

 

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