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Is Palin A "Christian Nationalist"?

submitted by winkler1

1 decade 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago

via Andrew Sullivan

She refuses to answer questions about her faith, but being blessed by her church's favored preacher, Pastor Muthee, puts her well in the zone of the most extreme of religious nutters. Another great column from the Anchorage Daily News, people who know Palin better than most:

Just why a church in Wasilla, Alaska, would adopt the language of witchcraft to express their belief in a battle of good versus evil is not clear. But even more revealing was Rev. Muthee's summary of the principles of what has come to be called Christian Nationalism, which preceded his "laying on of hands" ritual.

Extreme Christian Nationalists not only believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation but that its institutions should be run entirely by fundamentalist or evangelical Christians. They believe they have a mandate to purge our institutions of "humanists" who believe that humans are in control of their own destiny, progressive Christians and non-Christians. They believe there are seven areas of society that must be controlled, the so-called Seven Mountains Strategy: church, family, education, government and law, media, arts and entertainment and business.