In the video below, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin credits and praises a Kenyan Minister named Thomas Muthee with helping her to achieve the Alaskan governorship through prayer. It turns out the Muthee also hunts down witches and makes Rev. John Hagee look positively normal.
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Muthee had laid his hands on her:
“As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way. And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”
For an update and video of the blessing (including to be protected from witchcraft), click here.
She might also have enlisted him in some good old witch hunting. After founding the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya, Muthee reportedly says that he spoke with God and was called to the United States where he would be embraced by Palin and her church. While in Kenya, he says that he discovered that the community was inundated by witchcraft: “We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place.”
He even identified one witch known as Mama Jane, who ran a competing “divination” center called the Emmanuel Clinic. He declared that she was responsible for a rash of car accidents and led a crusade against her — a movement that would trigger calls for her to be stoned to death. She was eventually arrested and then fled the area.
It is certainly an example of “small town values” but perhaps not the quite type that the campaign is looking for.
For the video, click here.
For the full story,click here.
I’d put the jet on Ebay too if I could fly around on a broom like Sarah!!!!
Jill,
Another religous quote that should be amended reads as follows: In Palin We Trust.
CMM,
I know who the Wiccans are. They are the ones who make those chairs, right?
“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it.”
Two things come to mind here: 1. god isn’t dead, he’s really stupid and 2. I call these types of christians, “christian triumphalists”. It is clear they are not even bothering with the cover that it’s god’s will to be done. They are on a mission from hell to gain power at all cost and use it to impose their own will. Sarah Palin’s record is exactly that–gain power and impose her will on others. The new lord’s prayer suitable for Alabama courts: “Sarah’s will be done, on earth as it was in Alaska.”
The reason McCain picked Sarah “I can see Russia from my house” Palin is because her appointment was a quid pro quo to the religous right for their support of McCain. How else do you explain Dobson’s switch to support McCain right after she was named? I wish I could explain the car crashes!
I heard a guy use an expression that perhaps can be used by Sen. Obama to describe McSame’s economic policies without upsetting the Palin image police. Barack Obama could say:
You can put feathers on a dog, but that don’t make him a chicken.
Much the same could be said about Gov. Palin’s preparedness for her current role.
True witches would be hard to find, most of what is defined as Wicca seems pre christian Goddess worship, not devil worship, you would have to be near one to know, but it is more Earth/Nature a feminine deity that existed prior to Christian conversion in much of Europe and elsewhere. So if you are a fundementalist Christian they are witches and devil worshipers, a non fundamentalist would refer to most Wicca as nature worshipers, same people different definitions? But calling a nature worshiper a Devil or a whatever based on religious beliefs violates the United States Constitution and the British one as well (likely as not).
It’s scary that Palin quoted Westbrook Pegler in her acceptance speech.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/governor-palins-reading-l_b_126478.html
RFK, Jr. writes, “Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
6crowley9
1, September 17, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I find it scary how alot of these comments are left by one-minded Christians, Atheists or Agnostics saying how they cannot believe that ‘a rational decent christian’ can believe in such a thing as withcraft.
For one their are many serious pagan religions based around ‘witchcraft’ one of them being Wicca which originated from my home country of England. (Read my blog to find out a little more
I find it scary you think no one in heres heard of the Wiccans.
can’t spell, i noe, ooga booga.
You known Jill, there was some stuff envolving putting lipstick on a broom stick at my bachalor party. But this girl wasn’t no witch. No way, she was nice. I mean really nice.
Alaska’s Attorney general said troopergate is “a witch hunt.” Common expression, sure, but under the circumstances … lipstick?
Matt Damon: “It’s like a really bad Disney movie.”
I find it scary how alot of these comments are left by one-minded Christians, Atheists or Agnostics saying how they cannot believe that ‘a rational decent christian’ can believe in such a thing as withcraft.
For one their are many serious pagan religions based around ‘witchcraft’ one of them being Wicca which originated from my home country of England. (Read my blog to find out a little more)
I do not believe that anyone of another faith such as Chrisianity should go anywhere near another religion with any intentions other than for interest and understanding and I find it quite sad that they felt they had to pray for the witch’s ‘salvation’? I do not wish to offend any Chrisitians but sometimes it seems like the only religion that cannot accept that other people have other beliefs and that is there path without believing they are indefinately wrong. One of my own personal beliefs is that it is impossible to walk the path of righteousness without an open mind
Peace
Crowley
I was dragged (willingly I admit) to a Pentecostal Assembly of God Church on several occasions. They waved their hands a lot, but quite a few denominations are like that. My biggest complaint is the attempt to use rock bands and the fact that their ministers always remind me of Terry McCauliffe on steroids and crank (greasy car salesman slicks)? But then that’s what John Edwards looks like and I liked him? I’d really rather nod off to pipe organ music even though I’m a Metalhead!! Christian modern (regardless of denomination) music stinks, it don’t have too it just doesn’t get the best and brightest for some reason though I hear Kansas is doing it now?I Close My Eyes, only for a moment…..
There is a test for witches–you can’t put lipstick on a broomstick. The thing just wacks you on the head when you try, forcing you to walk into traffic and perform the miracle of traffic jams. This is how Mama Jane did her work. I know all of this because I use a scrying mirror. This mirror is so powerful it decodes tongue speech.
I think witches are a protected class and immune from these scurrilous allegations and they should be Vice-Presidents too. Bring on the tanning bed, cousin Sarah’s moving on up to the big house with the “cement pond,” all with the aid of a few potions and spells. Yee-Haw!
We should be clear here that Palin herself is under the influence of a religious cult that believes its members speak in Tongues.
If you’ve ever had the displeasure of attending a Pentacostal service and seen someone speak in Tongues, its quite deranged.
They babble incoherent gibberish and gobbledygook, uttering sounds, grunts, etc, that an interpreter declares the meaning of.
It is primitive, delusional and the notion that such a person under the influence of such a cult could possibly be considered for Vice President is insanity.
Jill:
You are assuming that Mama Jane was not in fact a witch. I think that we need to hear the full story from Sarah Palin before we jump to any such conclusions. Don’t forget the traffic accidents. What about the traffic accidents?
First of all we don’t need a “prayer cave” around here as we already have “The Beer Cave” where people go when they want to commune with spirits.
This story is remarkable for how unremarkable it all is. Belief in demons and witchcraft is widely held in fundamentalist churches. There’s a reason that about half of the US population thinks evolution is a lie. This is a profoundly irrational culture. It is scary and it is everywhere.
http://dummidumbwit.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/its-the-deregulation-stupid-among-other-things/
I was on the Fundamentalist angle of attack, but a 500 point drop in the stock market makes that seem less troublesome, seriously check out my Palin posts?