“What Voters Don’t Know About Sarah Palin’s Last Days Religion”
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Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs about the “Last Days” have received almost no attention in mainstream media and as a campaign issue. Beyond a brief mention in a Saturday Night Live skit, Sarah Palin’s religion has been treated as off-limits. Part of the problem is that most reporters don’t understand fundamentalist religious beliefs enough to ask good questions. Read more…
Categories: In The News, Main Tags: apocalyptic, armageddon, Assemblies of God, end time, fundamentalism, latter days, religious world view, Sarah Palin
“Hiding The Pentecostal Faith Of Sarah Palin”
One of the fascinating elements of this political campaign is the juxtaposition between the present ”bible-believing Christian” Sarah Palin and the past “Pentecostal” Sarah Palin.
It is clear that she was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential candidate to appeal to Evangelical Christians. She was promoted to the “conservative, Christian base” as one of them, without making clear her Pentecostal roots. Read more…
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“John McCain Jilts The Evangelicals and Chooses Sarah Palin From The Assemblies of God”
John McCain has courted Evangelicals for much of his political campaign. Meanwhile, the Evangelicals have not quite trusted him to be one of their own. McCain made the ultimate effort to woo the Evangelical vote in his appearance at the Civil Forum at Saddleback Church.
After all of this effort to capture the Evangelical vote, it is rather astonishing that McCain did not choose an Evangelical to run as his vice-presidential nominee. Instead, he chose a woman deeply rooted in the Assemblies of God. Read more…
