Sheets Endorses Gingrich
From Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch:
Newt Gingrich’s campaign announced today that Dutch Sheets, a self-appointed apostle and a major figure in the New Apostolic Reformation, will join his Faith Leaders Coalition as a National Co-Chair. As first reported and confirmed by Rachel Tabachnick of Talk to Action, Sheets endorsed Gingrich and warned that America “cannot survive another 4 years of the current leadership”…
Sheets is an avowed dominionist and at a recent event, The Gathering Eagles, he said that while he doesn’t think “that we’re going to take over everything and rule the earth completely for the Lord…we’re supposed to try.” While holding up a gavel in one hand and the word ‘family’ in the other, he said that Christians have become weak by emphasizing the ‘family’ and are now “lazy sheep,” calling on Christians to become “kingdom warriors” for dominion
The Human Rights Campaign points out a report by CNN that says Romney’s charitable foundation gave at least $35,000 to antigay groups in 2010, with $10,000 going to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which ran radio ads last year warning parents that a transgender civil rights bill could lead to all manner of danger in bathrooms.
At this point, I no longer have a candidate to vote for among the Republican challengers for POTUS.
But according to Sheets, there is reason for hope:
From my grandparents’ day until now, we have gone from 65% of Americans having a biblical worldview to now 4% of today’s young people sharing these beliefs.
I think it was an original HuffPo piece that claimed affluence breeds less religion in a culture. I’ll have to root around a bit to come up with a link – it may have even been your posting that I found it at.
The thing that occurs to me is that these fossils can include their children among those who refute their worldview. Hell, if you can’t even indoctrinate your own kids, your perspective must not have much validity. As to affluence, I credit the broad acceptance of enlightenment from intellectual thought as opposed to the ignorance of superstition. It would seem that our educational system has at least done a good job of that.
RE: fossils; and all general other entities of malice -
MBT uses the analogy of a school, particularly of a kindergarten, to speak of this thing, called reality.
Just like a real school, there are new entrants all the time.
Plus, there’s always those that don’t advance due to their willful ignorance. Put that together and there’s a plenitude of those that have many lessons to yet grasp.
Youssef really scares me. His doctrine is as near an American Taliban as I’ve seen. The dominionists have been committed to home schooling for more than a generation. These people are certifiably insane and represent a greater threat of violence than any Islamofascist. Newt is just the kind of double high authoritarian they’ve been looking for.
I agree, in general, with a domestic source being the larger ‘threat’ than any foreign source.
I’m not particularly concerned as you seen to be. On the off chance that Newt and his coalition get political power by virtue on Newt as POTUS, I’ll reevaluate.
Agreed. He’ll never get elected.
Whoa !
I sure won’t say ‘never’. Strange things in politics have been known to happen.
I spoke to someone else today who agrees with you. I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t do all I can to keep that from happening.