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‘God Is Invading Alaska’

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Posted on Sep 28, 2008
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You might think you’re watching a movie trailer when the voice-over kicks in on this promo spot for the Wasilla Assembly of God’s “Master’s Commission,” which a member of Sarah Palin’s former church describes as an “intense discipleship training program.” Although darkness sets in and seems to never let up in America’s northernmost state, the booming voice proclaims, “God has a destiny for the state of Alaska” ... and the world!

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By Leefeller, September 30, 2008 at 11:21 pm #

Aw, come on guys, this is a joke, right? Sort of like making fun of the people who were going to be picked up by a space ship?  While in Alaska, make sure you don’t drink the Tang.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 30, 2008 at 6:20 pm #

Yellowbird,
Have you and Hippy Pam been dipping into the “magic ‘shrooms” again?  I mean it’s obvious you are each having really bad trips, and in such opposite directions, too!

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By hippy pam, September 30, 2008 at 3:09 pm #

The spanish inquisition was launched “in the name of god”-so were the Salem Massachusettes witch hunts-and the crusades-and jihads-and the conversion of indigenous tribes all over the world…..EXACTLY WHICH OF THESE RELIGIONS IS “THE TRUE RELIGION”???or could the right one be the worship of “MOTHER EARTH?”???????

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By yellowbird2525, September 30, 2008 at 2:11 pm #

LISTEN: to what is “presented” to the citizens of the USA: Obama, a man who supposedly attended a church for 20 years, yet SAYS: you cling to your religion******in contempt: GIVE ME AN ATHIEST! who at least has principles & is FOR THE PEOPLE, and the LAND, & AIR: environmentalist! RATHER THAN “a person claiming” to be a Christian, or anything else: having “values” but says: to the PEOPLE: I can’t do anything about credit cards because it is a $7b a year (robbing the people with criminal rates & added fees); GREED: our nation is controlled by lying spirits overcome with the lust of greed & deception, & deceit; and the people follow saying “we are free” without understanding their country only desire is to kill, steal, & harm them for their own pocketbooks; this is the “history” of the USA.

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By yellowbird2525, September 30, 2008 at 2:05 pm #

The true God wanted to destroy the USA Gov back in 1949-1950. His men humbled, prayed, fasted, pleaded & intervened for Him to stay His thinking WRONGFULLY that it would be best for their children & grandchildren. They repented many times before God & His men/women. THINK: what the world would have been. No aids: (developed along with vacine but that has been denied to the people) & sent to Africa with polio for “population control”. The OIL companies would NEVER have been able to dominate & pollute & harm & kill millions for $. NO plastic milk cartons, etc dominating the landfills. NO chemicals being used to the maximum degree to harm/kill/hurt babies, children, men/women. The air would not be full of poisonous substances for the pocketbooks for the few. There have ALWAYS been alternative greener methods of transportation & heating, etc: so many men/women/kids/children would not be dead for wars “in the name of democracy” which is a mockery of freedom & is oppression & slavery. There would be TRUTH told in media/print/radio & TV; the Corporation LAWS & laws protecting the people would be in place & used not on “books” to make it appear to be something that it is not. How many other countries would have had other fates; without the deceiving, oppressing, cheating, lying, torturer training USA Gov behind their dastardly deeds?

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By ribbie, September 30, 2008 at 1:40 pm #

The Prince of Peace would be nauseated by this display of pop promotion for a church that has clearly forgotten what Christianity is SUPPOSED to be about.  And we criticize the Islamic world for THEIR extremism…

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By Inherit The Wind, September 30, 2008 at 10:37 am #

grumpy, September 29 at 10:15 am #

you people hurt my heart. nrobi: you hate man, not God, I’m sorry if others have let you down, but please don’t mistake what man does “in the name of God” as truth, not much of what we do emulates Jesus’ teachings.
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You know, people who follow Jesus can be a Mother Theresa or an Albert Schweitzer.  Or they can be a Torquemada or Savaranola or Erik Rudolph and be equally devout.

They can give their lives, and burn their neighbors as witches.  And all will say they are following God’s Will and Jesus (or Moses or Muhammed).

So…clearly religion fails to point a consistent direction to its followers, because the totally devout can go in diametrically opposite directions. 

In Wasilla, Alaska, we see some of the darker sides of religion.

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By Marc Schlee, September 30, 2008 at 8:42 am #
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Sounds like Jonestown.


FREE AMERICA

REVOLUTIONARY (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY

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By cyrena, September 30, 2008 at 4:53 am #

nrobi writes:

”...It is only the secular and spiritual people, not those of the religious ranks, that have kept up with me and seen to it that I make the effort to overcome the debilitating disease that I have been struck with…”

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nrobi,

Thank you for your excellent post, and thank whomever should be thanked that you escaped the cult. I agree…only the spiritual and the secular are to be counted upon.

These others have been victimized by the oldest trick in the books. ALL of those so-called religious books.

I have witnessed so many minds and lives damaged in the name of god, that I could absolutely SCREAM!! Maybe I will.

Glad to know help was available from real people.

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By grumpy, September 29, 2008 at 2:15 pm #

you people hurt my heart. nrobi: you hate man, not God, I’m sorry if others have let you down, but please don’t mistake what man does “in the name of God” as truth, not much of what we do emulates Jesus’ teachings.

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By Jim Yell, September 29, 2008 at 12:47 pm #
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We had a dry run with Reagan and deregulation, which left the American people as a whole to pay off billions, so that some sleaze bags could make millions. So we elected, if that was the process a God talking President who did a reprise but on a grander scale than the Savings and Loan debacle. We should have known better and we should recognize treason when we see it.

Now we have Loonie toon follies from the religious fundamentalist. We have tried this before and it isn’t the first time it has been done and it will give the same result. The result if no one ever told you in history class is murder, war, theft on a giant scale and oppression that would make a Nazi blush. You see once they have beat and murdered the nay sayers these wonderfully moral religious bastards will start killing each other because, well one group may cross themselves in a none standard way and offend what the other group has been told GOD wants them to do and it isn’t what the other religious are doing. So of course the answer is to beat them, torture them, and kill them. Just read you history and don’t be duped again. No one can win.

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By purplewolf, September 29, 2008 at 10:28 am #

As delusional as the radicals that Sarah wants to eliminate who follow other religious beliefs, in other places of this world, in the name of their Gods.

I thought G.W. enacted laws against organizing terrorist groups. This clip depicts a loner(potential stalker,mad bomber), the police car-future God police patrol, a street gang of roving future Gods terrorists, displays the high school as a potential training ground for Gods takeover army, brainwashed followers professing it’s the greatest thing ever, the take over of Alaska, the United States and then the world, by God and their out of control followers.

Religious fanatics, no longer the best freak show in town, they are now the scariest freak show in the world.

Looks like the whole town of Wasilla has been brainwashed. Robo-religi-bots. Don’t think for yourself, just keep drinking the kool-aid. Mob-rule mentality at it’s lowest point. The father(God) knows best complex, don’t ask, just do as I say mentality. Do we really need this radical lifestyle forced upon the whole world? What happens to those who resist? Will they be allowed to live, or will these fundies go out and in the name of God, eliminate everyone who does not bow down to their view of things? Just like some of those other radical religions in other parts of the world. Just plain creepy.

I’m GOD and I don’t approve of this message.

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By tomack, September 29, 2008 at 9:37 am #

I’m almost positive I saw Darth Vader in one of the crowd scenes.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 29, 2008 at 7:27 am #

God has a destiny for Alaska….

“Stop electing crazy, crooked, corrupt, fascist shitheads like Ted Stevens and Sarah Palin….or ELSE!!!!!”

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By nrobi, September 29, 2008 at 3:20 am #

Is this truly for real?  I cannot see the point in making a video that extols the virtue of ignorance and near insanity.
Yet the Far Christian Right Wing of the Grand Orgy Party, doesn’t see anything wrong with the idea of proclaiming their medieval and dark age thinking.
Surely the people who made this video, have to know that experiential movements only lead to fascist dictatorships in the end. One need only read, Escape From Freedom, by Erich Fromm, to see the need for reasoned and logical thinking and being.
I am appalled at the choice of these men and women to recruit those who are depressed and lonely, to a movement which in the end is hollow and shallow, with no reasoning or scholarship behind the scenes.
I, left a movement such as this, had my eyes opened when, sick, none of the people, who were considered my friends, came to see me and give the comfort that was necessary for me to retain a positive frame of mind. This would have helped in my recovery, yet not one of these people, even today will talk to me or even acknowledge that I exist.
It is only the secular and spiritual people, not those of the religious ranks, that have kept up with me and seen to it that I make the effort to overcome the debilitating disease that I have been struck with.

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By Cecil Green, September 29, 2008 at 3:01 am #
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wow… they’re resorting to jerry bruckheimer.

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By danny bloom, September 28, 2008 at 11:58 pm #
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ever heard of a bio-op? get ready

danny bloom
Tufts 1971

see BIO OP news here

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By danny bloom, September 28, 2008 at 11:57 pm #
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ever heard of a bio-op? get ready

danny bloom
Tufts 1971

see BIO OP news here

http://northwardho.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-is-bio -op-wikipedia.html

http://www.rushprnews.com/2008/09/28/sarah-palin-ex posed-in-new-biography/

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By Tony Wicher, September 28, 2008 at 9:35 pm #

Christ on a pogo stick!

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By cyrena, September 28, 2008 at 8:44 pm #

Shit!!

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