Bad Religion Makes For Very Bad Politics
NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION AN EMERGING, MORE RADICALIZED VERSION OF DOMINIONISM
Posted: October 2, 2011 at 5:11 a.m.
On Aug. 6, as presidential candidate Rick Perry kicked off his campaign for the White House, he held a large rally organized by some religious groups that are not well-known to the general public — leaders from the New Apostolic Reformation and their associates with the International House of Prayer and The Call.
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This is the best column I've seen by Rev. Grisham in a long time. Thank you for bringing this information to the forefront, and please continue to provide leadership on this subject.
Is there any forum where freedom loving citizens can come together to discuss how best to "out" this "New Apostolic Reformation movement"? When and where can we meet to discuss how to do this? It disturbs me greatly, these thinly veiled theocratic movements in the sheep's clothing of "Christianity." This movement is dangerous to American freedoms, and every citizen must be made aware of how they operate, who their "stealth candidates" are, and how to expose them.
In America, the concept of theocracy is quite *un*-American, because it is a fundamental constitutional right to have the freedom of--and therefore *from*--religion. A community of true Americans will fiercely defend our constitutional rights. This threat to freedom is a perfect opportunity to bring together people of all faith traditions, and those with no faith tradition. If there were to be an open community forum to discuss this, I'd gladly attend.
Posted by: SPA
October 2, 2011 at 3:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lowell Grisham shows us once again how a person can be a thorough going Christian while exemplifying the finest attributes a human can muster. And he doesn't this while showing there is a considerable contingent of Christians who do the exact opposite.
Interesting how people looking to the same Jesus for inspiration get such different results. This suggests religion is largely subjective and the person is bringing their own sense of morality to the religion.
Posted by: fayfreethinker
October 2, 2011 at 3:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lowell, thanks for a very timely article. I am in agreement with your assessment of the dangers presented by these movements. Thank you for being a reasonable and spiritual religious leader.
Posted by: Jim_Huffman
October 2, 2011 at 10:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
@FFT
It seems that the followers of these new "sects" seem to ignore the compassion and charity that Christ was teaching in the New Testament. I've been thinking for a while that there are a good number of Christians in these new movements that simply aren't. They may call themselves that but a good number of the beliefs and morals that they adhere to are coming from the
Creationism (Genesis), Anti-Gay (Leviticus), Ten Commandments (Exodus), etc...
What we have today is more akin to what you'd get if the Roman Empire had been followers of the Old Testament.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
--Mohandas Gandhi
"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..."
--So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Posted by: Nilatir
October 3, 2011 at 9:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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