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| Sarah Palin Wasilla Church Has Kooky Prophecy Sessions |
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Sarah Palin's odd religious sect should NOT be a
test of public office as she runs for Vice
President, but given that John McCain and Sarah
Palin have already made Palin's religion a
campaign issue, it's a valid topic for public
consideration (not as an electoral factor). The
Wasilla Assemblies of God is holding, in one week,
what it calls a Masters Commission in which
prophecies for God and Alaska and the United
States will be discussed. It seems that the
church's leaders claim that God is "invading"
Alaska and say that Wasilla is the key to God's
plans for the entire world. It's hard to conclude
that they are not talking about Sarah Palin's vice
presidential campaign.
Tags : sarah palin vice president wasilla assemblies of god masters commission kooky prophecies theocracy cult |
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Durée : 161 s |
| the Assembly - Never Never |
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a video from the only single released by the
Assembly.
The project was created by Vince Clarke (Depeche
Mode, Yazoo, Erasure) and longtime producer Eric
Radcliffe.
The idea was that they would have one singer per
single and just keep releasing singles as such.
However, they found it very hard to find the right
singers, and Vince moved on to h a video from the
only single released by the Assembly.
The project was created by Vince Clarke (Depeche
Mode, Yazoo, Erasure) and longtime producer Eric
Radcliffe.
The idea was that they would have one singer per
single and just keep releasing singles as such.
However, they found it very hard to find the right
singers, and Vince moved on to his next project
that later became Erasure.
The singer in the video is Feargal Sharkey, who
was in once in the Undertones.
I hope the video doens't get messed up
Tags : Feargal Sharkey Vince Clarke Eric Radcliffe Depeche Mode Yazoo Erasure the Assembly Never Undertones Andy Bell |
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Durée : 216 s |
| Wild Beasts - 'Assembly' |
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Assembly is an initiation, is a palm spat on and
shook. Wild
Beasts' debut release on Domino is an absolutely
joyous non-stop knee jerk expression of everything
and anything forced through in a fully breached
frenzy lasting less than three minutes. Like the
traditional school hymn projected ten foot tall on
the cement wall, but belted out bugger drunk in a
backward Bethlehem, assembly is an unabashed
assault on the middle
ground.
http://www.wild-beasts.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/wildbeasts
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/
Tags : wild beasts assembly domino records alternative |
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Affichage : 32550
Durée : 171 s |
| Sarah Palin & the Wasilla Assembly of God 1 of 2 |
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Three months before she was thrust into the
national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was
asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing
the graduating class of commission students at her
one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God.
Her speech in June provides as much insight into
her policy leanings as anything uncovered since
she was asked to be John McCain's running mate.
Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin
painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic
affair in which the United States could act out
the will of the Lord.
"Pray for our military men and women who are
striving to do what is right. Also, for this
country, that our leaders, our national leaders,
are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is
from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's
what we have to make sure that we're praying for,
that there is a plan and that that plan is God's
plan."
Religion, however, was not strictly a thread in
Palin's foreign policy. It was part of her energy
proposals as well. Just prior to discussing Iraq,
Alaska's governor asked the audience to pray for
another matter -- a $30 billion national gas
pipeline project that she wanted built in the
state. "I think God's will has to be done in
unifying people and companies to get that gas line
built, so pray for that," she said.
This is person could possibly be the Vice
President or, considering the health of her
partner J. McCain, furthermore President. Allow me
to make a “prophetic declaration” that seems
to be more predictive than any pronouncement from
pulpits of this sort: the continuation of
conversations like this from public officers can
do nothing but detriment our civic health. Why is
it that some leaders of the United States insist
that a “higher power” or “Jesus” is giving
them support and providing them with impetus to
govern? Why is it that Governor Palin’s friend
and obvious ally Steve Allen called “this a god
thing?” What does that even mean?
I submit that one of the many deleterious effects
of claims to religious affiliation is the absence
of use of intellectual faculties generally. When
GW Bush vetoed federal funding on the most
promising research in the history of science,
namely stem cell research, he did so because it
was a “god thing.” When the Archbishop of
Canterbury claims that England ought to adopt
Shar’ia law for its muslim population, he did so
because it is a “god thing.” In present
political situation it is beyond difficult to
challenge the religious backing that so many
politicians, of classically opposing faiths
nonetheless, use to gain support. Look at how this
unknown mayor was able to garner support from the
faithful by her religious devotion alone.
Shouldn’t it be asked what she really believes
economically, sociologically, or politically? This
is the pain of religious moderation. We no longer
hear the truth about her personality but her lofty
and diaphanous ideas about how the god of Abraham
ought to be consulted for energy policy. One ought
to wonder why it is that other nations of opposing
religious traditions who seek the same god’s
favor in explicitly opposite requests receive his
grace at times. Are the believers of Alaska less
valuable?
Sarah Palin’s preacher, Pastor Kalnins, it seems
wouldn’t think so. He has preached that critics
of President Bush will be banished to hell;
questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John
Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged
that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq
were part of a war "contending for your faith;"
and said that Jesus "operated from that position
of war mode."
It is impossible to determine how much Wasilla
Assembly of God has shaped Palin's thinking. She
was baptized there at the age of 12 and attended
the church for most of her adult life. When Palin
was inaugurated as governor, the founding pastor
of the church delivered the invocation. In 2002,
Palin moved her family to a nondenominational
church, but she continues to worship at a related
Assembly of God church in Juneau.
Moreover, she "has maintained a friendship with
Wasilla Assembly of God and has attended various
conferences and special meetings here," Kalnins'
office said in a statement. "As for her personal
beliefs," the statement added, "Governor Palin is
well able to speak for herself on those issues."
Clearly, however, Palin views the church as the
source of an important, if sometimes politically
explosive, message. "Having grown up here, and
having little kids grow up here also, this is such
a special, special place," she told the
congregation in June. "What comes from this church
I think has great destiny."
And if the political storm over Barack Obama's
former pastor Jeremiah Wright is any indication,
Palin may face some political fallout over the
more controversial teachings of Wasilla Assembly
of God.
Tags : atheism creationism Harris Hitchens Palin politics religion Sarah Shermer |
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