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		<title>By: Conservatives and Normals</title>
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		<dc:creator>Conservatives and Normals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Religious people are nuts.  Really.  Nuts.</description>
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		<title>By: PurpleOnions</title>
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		<dc:creator>PurpleOnions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A comment about the one video in the Daily Beast with Sarah&#039;s own minister(Ed Kalnin)praying over her:listen very closely at the very end, the last sentence where someone shouts out &quot;Jezebel we curse you!&quot;  Check out what &#039;they&#039; mean by Jezebel. 

If you really dig deeply into their church &amp; beliefs, Jezebel from my research on it is considered to be the Holy Virgin Mary, and is called the whore of Babylon... It&#039;s SICK SICK SICK... 

Also check out &#039;The Masters Commission&#039; which Sarah mentioned &amp; praised to the members in another video when she was speaking at her church. See what they do with what almost seems like a cult brainwashing with young teenagers for this War for God, (where Alaska will be the last refuge on earth) as well as check out what Joels Army is.  

There&#039;s a lot more that needs to be exposed (Max?)  in my opinion than just the witch doctor &amp; his mumbo jumbo, that doesn&#039;t bother me at all. I totally believe in and respect religious freedom for anyone but not where some of those kinds of beliefs from someone in position in extreme power could affect me with that sick kind of thinking or set the world and women back 500 years.

I also thought her church was considered heretical and thrown out from the reg. AOG because of some of their strange beliefs?? Not sure but thought I read that somewhere.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A comment about the one video in the Daily Beast with Sarah&#8217;s own minister(Ed Kalnin)praying over her:listen very closely at the very end, the last sentence where someone shouts out &#8220;Jezebel we curse you!&#8221;  Check out what &#8216;they&#8217; mean by Jezebel. </p>
<p>If you really dig deeply into their church &amp; beliefs, Jezebel from my research on it is considered to be the Holy Virgin Mary, and is called the whore of Babylon&#8230; It&#8217;s SICK SICK SICK&#8230; </p>
<p>Also check out &#8216;The Masters Commission&#8217; which Sarah mentioned &amp; praised to the members in another video when she was speaking at her church. See what they do with what almost seems like a cult brainwashing with young teenagers for this War for God, (where Alaska will be the last refuge on earth) as well as check out what Joels Army is.  </p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot more that needs to be exposed (Max?)  in my opinion than just the witch doctor &amp; his mumbo jumbo, that doesn&#8217;t bother me at all. I totally believe in and respect religious freedom for anyone but not where some of those kinds of beliefs from someone in position in extreme power could affect me with that sick kind of thinking or set the world and women back 500 years.</p>
<p>I also thought her church was considered heretical and thrown out from the reg. AOG because of some of their strange beliefs?? Not sure but thought I read that somewhere.</p>
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		<title>By: dgg207</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is there so little press about Palin and her association with this preacher or those involved with Alaskan Independence Party (a movement whose founder&#039;s platform is openly anti-US)?  Some mainstream Republicans are embarrassed of their party painting Obama as unAmerican and a terrorist by association.  McCain and Palin claims shady associations should be fair game and explained.  Well if that&#039;s what they&#039;re expecting then the failure to have his surrogates beef something up about Palin is wrong.  Palin is going to have a future in the party and I&#039;d like it cut down now.

Another odd thing that among politicians I rarely if ever hear is to announce your goals along with your spouse.  By that I mean that Palin has a strong tendency to include her husband when she speaks about or make her campaign promises.  Very odd to read that Palin has said &quot;Todd and I&quot; intend to do this for the people or &quot;Todd and I&quot; promise to do that for the country... What is that all about????  What other politician does that?  Not even Hillary and she has a great reason to include her spouse.  

When Todd and Sarah Palin both refused to respond to subpoenas, the Dems had a great opportunity to remind the American people of their true nature a la Rove and Cheney.  Change?  Heck no.  Todd Palin today finally admitted that he made &quot;hundreds of calls&quot; about the issues central to Troopergate.  he ahd said he had very little to do with it.  It&#039;s obvious that he will continue to be centrally involved in Sarah Palin&#039;s political decisions, far more than just being a spouse.  Todd runs her show.  Todd is more involved in the Alaskan Independence Party than she and gave a speech in support of the Alaska Independence Party this year, in 2008.  It&#039;s obvious that Sarah Palin has no qualms in being controlled, and in being negative and mean spirited.  McCain himself stays away from it and evidenced by his failure to go down that road on TV - yet I think he will next time given all the uproar and calling out that he needs to man up.  That will not go over well. Not because he isn&#039;t up to the task but because he&#039;s pretended not to be for so long that he&#039;s not used to speaking out.  He let his wife tell half truths on the stump now by stating &quot;my blood tan cold&quot; when Obama didn&#039;t vote to fund the troops  - &quot;my son&quot; - yet intentionally misleading her audience by failing to disclose that his vote involved the lack of a timetable for withdrawal and that her husband John McCain vote not to fund the troops either when the bill included a timetable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is there so little press about Palin and her association with this preacher or those involved with Alaskan Independence Party (a movement whose founder&#8217;s platform is openly anti-US)?  Some mainstream Republicans are embarrassed of their party painting Obama as unAmerican and a terrorist by association.  McCain and Palin claims shady associations should be fair game and explained.  Well if that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re expecting then the failure to have his surrogates beef something up about Palin is wrong.  Palin is going to have a future in the party and I&#8217;d like it cut down now.</p>
<p>Another odd thing that among politicians I rarely if ever hear is to announce your goals along with your spouse.  By that I mean that Palin has a strong tendency to include her husband when she speaks about or make her campaign promises.  Very odd to read that Palin has said &#8220;Todd and I&#8221; intend to do this for the people or &#8220;Todd and I&#8221; promise to do that for the country&#8230; What is that all about????  What other politician does that?  Not even Hillary and she has a great reason to include her spouse.  </p>
<p>When Todd and Sarah Palin both refused to respond to subpoenas, the Dems had a great opportunity to remind the American people of their true nature a la Rove and Cheney.  Change?  Heck no.  Todd Palin today finally admitted that he made &#8220;hundreds of calls&#8221; about the issues central to Troopergate.  he ahd said he had very little to do with it.  It&#8217;s obvious that he will continue to be centrally involved in Sarah Palin&#8217;s political decisions, far more than just being a spouse.  Todd runs her show.  Todd is more involved in the Alaskan Independence Party than she and gave a speech in support of the Alaska Independence Party this year, in 2008.  It&#8217;s obvious that Sarah Palin has no qualms in being controlled, and in being negative and mean spirited.  McCain himself stays away from it and evidenced by his failure to go down that road on TV &#8211; yet I think he will next time given all the uproar and calling out that he needs to man up.  That will not go over well. Not because he isn&#8217;t up to the task but because he&#8217;s pretended not to be for so long that he&#8217;s not used to speaking out.  He let his wife tell half truths on the stump now by stating &#8220;my blood tan cold&#8221; when Obama didn&#8217;t vote to fund the troops  &#8211; &#8220;my son&#8221; &#8211; yet intentionally misleading her audience by failing to disclose that his vote involved the lack of a timetable for withdrawal and that her husband John McCain vote not to fund the troops either when the bill included a timetable.</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: The Eel</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Eel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palmeranian,

If you really believe that the Apostolic-Prophetic movement is harmless, then consider the following...

According to an archived webpage from an Apostolic-Prophetic site, Thomas Muthee cured 23 people of AIDS…

http://web.archive.org/web/20031213164752/www.godsglory.org/prayercave/main/cc1.html

The claim that Muthee cured 23 people of AIDS made me laugh when I first read about it but that laughter ended as I came to the grim realization that the false hope he gave those 23 people may have led to exponentially more infections.

Do you still believe that the Apostolic-Prophetic mindset is harmelss? 

TE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palmeranian,</p>
<p>If you really believe that the Apostolic-Prophetic movement is harmless, then consider the following&#8230;</p>
<p>According to an archived webpage from an Apostolic-Prophetic site, Thomas Muthee cured 23 people of AIDS…</p>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031213164752/www.godsglory.org/prayercave/main/cc1.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20031213164752/www.godsglory.org/prayercave/main/cc1.html</a></p>
<p>The claim that Muthee cured 23 people of AIDS made me laugh when I first read about it but that laughter ended as I came to the grim realization that the false hope he gave those 23 people may have led to exponentially more infections.</p>
<p>Do you still believe that the Apostolic-Prophetic mindset is harmelss? </p>
<p>TE</p>
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		<title>By: Palmeranian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Palmeranian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a christian, but not of the same variety of the Wasilla AOG.  I have many friends and family in the prophetic movement and have studied it closely.  This is not something scary that will hurt anyone.  In fact, most people in this movement stay out of politics and government.  They believe more in the power of prayer than the power of government. 

There must have been a reason why Palin left WAOG and now attends Wasilla Bible Church which is not part of the same &quot;prophetic movement&quot;.  It may have been WAOG&#039;s involvement in the &quot;prophetic movement&quot;.  It was not involved in it until fairly recently.  She still has lots of friends there and obviously attends special meetings there.  

The left has made this tempest in a teapot into a scary strawman.  If you are afraid of scarecrows, fine.  I&#039;m not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a christian, but not of the same variety of the Wasilla AOG.  I have many friends and family in the prophetic movement and have studied it closely.  This is not something scary that will hurt anyone.  In fact, most people in this movement stay out of politics and government.  They believe more in the power of prayer than the power of government. </p>
<p>There must have been a reason why Palin left WAOG and now attends Wasilla Bible Church which is not part of the same &#8220;prophetic movement&#8221;.  It may have been WAOG&#8217;s involvement in the &#8220;prophetic movement&#8221;.  It was not involved in it until fairly recently.  She still has lots of friends there and obviously attends special meetings there.  </p>
<p>The left has made this tempest in a teapot into a scary strawman.  If you are afraid of scarecrows, fine.  I&#8217;m not.</p>
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		<title>By: mirele</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are a lot of people who take Thomas Muthee&#039;s witch hunting at face value. As someone above pointed out, Muthee&#039;s work got a fortune teller run out of town one step ahead of the tar and feather squad from the &quot;Prayer Cave&quot; (Muthee&#039;s church).

Thing is, Muthee&#039;s fame, such as it is, is based on his appearance in a video called &quot;Transformations 1&quot; put out by George Otis&#039; Jr.&#039;s &quot;Sentinel Group.&quot;. Otis promotes a practice known as &quot;spiritual mapping,&quot; where charismatic Christians discern the spiritual strongholds in their area (i.e., nests of Buddhists, Wiccans, Unitarians and the like) and then do things like prayer walking to get them to leave. What Muthee was doing in Kiambu, Kenya, was a version of that.

The &quot;Transformations 1&quot; video highlights four cities that were allegedly &quot;transformed&quot; by these practices. Kiambu was one of them. Another was Hemet, California. There, some Christians went around spiritually mapping &quot;cultists&quot; and then praying that they would leave town. Additionally, they&#039;d pray that crime rates would go down. Well, apparently crime rates DID go down, but crime rates everywhere in 1999 were lower than they had been in a while (an example of that Clinton prosperity at work, now long gone). However, the business of having gotten rid of the local cultists was just bogus. 

On the north edge of Hemet, just over the city limits, is a Church of Scientology compound known as &quot;Gold Base.&quot; It was there in 1999 (I picketed there) and remains there today. When I first heard of the &quot;Transformations 1&quot; video, I nearly blew a blood vessel, since I knew these people who put it out were absolutely LYING about allegedly clearing out the spiritual darkness around Hemet. Even if one were to grant that ok, Gold Base is not within the city limits, at the time when this video was made, Gold Base&#039;s hundreds of workers were being housed in apartment complexes in Hemet itself. 

My point is this:  if the people who put out the &quot;Transformations 1&quot; video were so wrong about Hemet, CA, it&#039;s entirely possible, and indeed quite likely, that they also lied about the other three cities, including Muthee&#039;s Kiambu, Kenya. So, in short, Thomas Muthee&#039;s reputation may very well be built upon a foundation of lies. 

Why would I not be surprised?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a lot of people who take Thomas Muthee&#8217;s witch hunting at face value. As someone above pointed out, Muthee&#8217;s work got a fortune teller run out of town one step ahead of the tar and feather squad from the &#8220;Prayer Cave&#8221; (Muthee&#8217;s church).</p>
<p>Thing is, Muthee&#8217;s fame, such as it is, is based on his appearance in a video called &#8220;Transformations 1&#8243; put out by George Otis&#8217; Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;Sentinel Group.&#8221;. Otis promotes a practice known as &#8220;spiritual mapping,&#8221; where charismatic Christians discern the spiritual strongholds in their area (i.e., nests of Buddhists, Wiccans, Unitarians and the like) and then do things like prayer walking to get them to leave. What Muthee was doing in Kiambu, Kenya, was a version of that.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Transformations 1&#8243; video highlights four cities that were allegedly &#8220;transformed&#8221; by these practices. Kiambu was one of them. Another was Hemet, California. There, some Christians went around spiritually mapping &#8220;cultists&#8221; and then praying that they would leave town. Additionally, they&#8217;d pray that crime rates would go down. Well, apparently crime rates DID go down, but crime rates everywhere in 1999 were lower than they had been in a while (an example of that Clinton prosperity at work, now long gone). However, the business of having gotten rid of the local cultists was just bogus. </p>
<p>On the north edge of Hemet, just over the city limits, is a Church of Scientology compound known as &#8220;Gold Base.&#8221; It was there in 1999 (I picketed there) and remains there today. When I first heard of the &#8220;Transformations 1&#8243; video, I nearly blew a blood vessel, since I knew these people who put it out were absolutely LYING about allegedly clearing out the spiritual darkness around Hemet. Even if one were to grant that ok, Gold Base is not within the city limits, at the time when this video was made, Gold Base&#8217;s hundreds of workers were being housed in apartment complexes in Hemet itself. </p>
<p>My point is this:  if the people who put out the &#8220;Transformations 1&#8243; video were so wrong about Hemet, CA, it&#8217;s entirely possible, and indeed quite likely, that they also lied about the other three cities, including Muthee&#8217;s Kiambu, Kenya. So, in short, Thomas Muthee&#8217;s reputation may very well be built upon a foundation of lies. </p>
<p>Why would I not be surprised?</p>
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		<title>By: The Eel</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Eel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Allen, 

I&#039;ve been researching Thomas Muthee pretty intensively for the past week or so and I haven&#039;t come across anything which suggests that he either advocates or practices polygamy. 

As far as I know, adherents of Apostolic-Prophetic doctrine strongly oppose polygamy.

TE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Allen, </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been researching Thomas Muthee pretty intensively for the past week or so and I haven&#8217;t come across anything which suggests that he either advocates or practices polygamy. </p>
<p>As far as I know, adherents of Apostolic-Prophetic doctrine strongly oppose polygamy.</p>
<p>TE</p>
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		<title>By: Allen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A friend of mine, who has worked in Kenya with the Peace Corps, has suggested that Thomas Muthee may have as many as 3 wives back in Kenya.  If this is true, I would like to know.  That would mean that Palin&#039;s church has endorsed a polygamist!  Is there any way we can confirm or refute this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine, who has worked in Kenya with the Peace Corps, has suggested that Thomas Muthee may have as many as 3 wives back in Kenya.  If this is true, I would like to know.  That would mean that Palin&#8217;s church has endorsed a polygamist!  Is there any way we can confirm or refute this?</p>
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		<title>By: Bazza</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bazza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think there&#039;s nothing wrong with her views... save that they&#039;re completely insane and it worries me that American&#039;s can even consider voting for the woman when she may very possibly become president given McCain&#039;s age. 

The problem here people have taken religious freedom to mean that not only should people be allowed to believe what they want (which is true) but that they have  right to have those views taken seriously and respected (which is false).

This woman&#039;s views do not deserve to be taken seriously or respected for they are insane theories about the world that even rudimentary inspection of the facts (rather than religious brainwashing) would quickly prove false. To vote for her is to vote for ignorance and stupidity... and given the last 8 years America needs no more of that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think there&#8217;s nothing wrong with her views&#8230; save that they&#8217;re completely insane and it worries me that American&#8217;s can even consider voting for the woman when she may very possibly become president given McCain&#8217;s age. </p>
<p>The problem here people have taken religious freedom to mean that not only should people be allowed to believe what they want (which is true) but that they have  right to have those views taken seriously and respected (which is false).</p>
<p>This woman&#8217;s views do not deserve to be taken seriously or respected for they are insane theories about the world that even rudimentary inspection of the facts (rather than religious brainwashing) would quickly prove false. To vote for her is to vote for ignorance and stupidity&#8230; and given the last 8 years America needs no more of that.</p>
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