The Irony of Sarah Palin: Her "Third Wave" Radical Christian Theology
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From the International Herald Tribune:
"Senator John McCain, in a provocative and politically risky speech, sharply criticized leaders of the religious right on Monday as agents of intolerance…Specifically, Mr. McCain singled out (certain) evangelists….as corrupting influences on religion and politics and said parts of the religious right were divisive and even un-American…."
"The political tactics of division and slander are not our values," Mr. McCain said. "They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country."
"Neither party," Mr. McCain added, "should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance."
That was "Maverick" McCain during the 2000 primary campaign. Those paragraphs are excerpted from an article in the February 29, 2000 edition of the International Herald Tribune.
What happened to John McCain? When did he become the candidate of John Hagee and Rod Parsley? How could the candidate who called the religious right, "Agents of Intolerance," attach himself and his campaign to the same religious leaders who he railed against 8 years ago? How did he select a running mate who is an adherent of the most extreme theocratic religious beliefs, and who has brought her beliefs into the political offices she has held?
The Third Wave or New Apostolic Reformation Movement; which includes the church in which Sarah Palin was baptized and spent more than 20 years, and the various churches she still chooses to attend, promote a theocratic world view, in which their particular brand of fundamentalism dominates all aspects of society, as a prelude to the return of Jesus. Their strategy for achieving domination includes infiltration and fracturing of traditional Christian churches. In his book, "Civil War in the Church," Rick Joyner, one of the leading figures in the Third Wave Movement, claims that this war, like the American Civil War, will be fought between the "Grays" and the "Blues." The Grays represent the institutionalized existing church which he claims is mired in legalism and lives by the power of their own brains, while the victorious Blues represent those joining in the new knowledge and supernatural outpouring of "signs and wonders."
As a progressive and a non-Christian, I see the migration of the theocratic, dominionist Third Wave movement into national politics as a threat to our democracy and to the pluralistic nature of American society. But it is not only progressives who are threatened. Conservative evangelical Christian denominations see the Third Wave movement as a threat to their own beliefs, and to their very existence. Leaders of the Third Wave movement openly brag about their successes in attracting other Christian churches and ministers to its own theology and world view, in their online magazine.
The metamorphosis of John McCain, who opposed the influence of the Religious Right in Republican politics before he supported it, exposes McCain and the Republican Party for what they are, agents of big money interests, who will stop at nothing to retain power so that they can further their corporatist agenda. The desperate selection of an inexperienced, intellectual lightweight like Sarah Palin, was, to use McCain’s own words, "Pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance." The Republican Party needed someone on the ticket to energize its base of evangelical voters. This time, through desperation and lack of understanding of the various theological movements of the Religious Rights, they may have overshot their target.
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