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Originally Posted by zeek
Rick Perry and Sarah Palin allegedly have close ties to a radical Christian movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation that practices exorcism of demons and practices "spiritual warfare" against other religions. The beliefs of this group are far more extreme than the evangelicalism epoused by George W. Bush. It is scary to think that either Palin or Perry could be elected President of the US given their extreme views. The movement's agenda is to achieve "dominion" over the arts, business, education, family, government, media, and religion.
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The Utah Mormons got caught illegally funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to IOC voters to get the Olympics into Salt Lake City. Why would they spend such sums? Because tens of millions of U.S. dollars were waiting in the form of fat, non-competitive contracts to "develop" the area for the Winter Games. I would argue that the Mormon agenda is to achieve "dominion" as well (p.s. no one went to jail, even though it amounted to funnelling of millions of taxpayer dollars as a result of bribes. Mitt went up there to clean up the mess, and it was 'hear no evil, see no evil' from him).
I read that the Republicans are going to spend 2.5 billion dollars on the presidential campaign (Time magazine cover - no idea how accurate that figure is). My thought was, so what? 2.5 billion is chump change compared to the U.S. Budget. What do you think the Mormon church is going to get as a cut of that if Mitt takes over? Dominion, anyone?
I think the idea of dominion, anyway, is over-rated. The power Jesus promised was power over yourself. "What profit is it if a person gains the whole world but loses his soul?" You have the power, in Christ's victory, to be free from fear, shame, pain, sadness, anger, restlessness, dissatisfaction, etc. We once were fully cut off from God's kingdom, but now the doorway is open.
That is dominion. That is "mastery". Look at the word "kurios"... master, or lord. You are given to be master over your soul. "He who loses his soul-life in this age will gain it unto eternal life." The cross can erase the sting of death, and restore our soul to one-ness with the Father of all. God has dominion. All things are His servants (Psa 119:91). Once we are fully under His control (dominion), then we can serve Him; His divine power can fully flow through us. The Roman centurion, being a subject of Caesar, realized this, and Jesus said that He'd seen such faith nowhere in Israel.
I actually know nothing about Palin, Perry, nor their Dominon bunch. Nor am I interested. I feel that I know too much about Mitt and his Mormon pals. All of them are hoodlums to me; no better than the Illinois Democrats (synonymous for 'crooks') who bank-rolled Obama.
All of this is apropos of nothing, as usual.