I just finished reading Markos's American Taliban. Great books kos and now you may have to do a Part II. Beautifull written but the outline of things you reported has taken yet another turn. The Ted Cruz factor.
A lot of people do not know just how dangerous this man is. It is approaching Halloween or as the Christian right refers to it, as Hallowseve. They do not celebrate
with Trick or Treat for the most part. They have alternatives to Trick or Treat door to door. They have Trunk or Treat and it is candy only given out by church members that can be trusted. The cars or trucks are parked outside the church houses and the kids file into the area to have Fall Festivals. Scriptures are included called Tracks that fill the Goody Bag. What I never understood up in Georgia when this was pretty much the sum of celebration of Halloween for kids, is if so taboo, why have a version of celebration of the holiday? The Church leaders are into this i will say more than the kids. Kids only want the candy, hot dogs and the games played inside. The games are ring toss, fishing for candy, cake walks, etc.
The evangelicals look forward to this celebration all year long. I would go as far as to say that it is a bigger deal than Christmas. The Hell House. The depiction of Judgement Day and the fall of man. This House of Horrors usually won't let small kids in. By small, I mean any child under 6 will be discouraged from the terror that usually surrounds teenage girls and boys and almost always ends up with car wrecks, blood, death, and one kid not listening to the warning of their parents and instruction of the church. They usually are drinking beer, ( not real of course) smoking doobies, smoking cigarettes, and being a bit too cozy with the opposite sex. I imagine the plot is somewhat different since I visited . Now it is probaby more about the internet, the government and it had taken that turn some time back with senators cutting deals. I would imagine now it goes pretty far with Obama and ACA. I suspect that because we all know it is evil and somehow will be the downfall of America and he is not furthering their concept of a Christian agenda.
Enter, Ted Cruz. This man has an agenda. He is all for the indoctrination of ridding America of the evils that plague the world and hurry up the Rapture. We must know that Rafael Cruz is a huge evangelical who has deemed his son to be annointed by God to bring this world to a close. Here is the link from Right wing Watch.Link
Here is a direct quote from the link:
In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz' father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as "kings" to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the "Seven Mountains" mandate, and "bring the spoils of war to the priests", thus helping to bring about a prophesied "great transfer of wealth", from the "wicked" to righteous gentile believers. link to video of Rafael Cruz describing the "great transfer of wealth" and the role of anointed "kings" in various sectors of society, including government, who are to "bring the spoils of war to the priests".
They do not participate in Haunted Houses. They have real plays about Judgment Day and probably this year a host of Anti Obama and ACA thrown into the mix. There are costumes allowed in fellowship halls across the bible belt but only Angels, princesses, Superman, and no vampires or witches or Dracula or Werewolfs. It has to be kept sweet, angelic and pure.
This evangelical thing has a real twist to it. Keep in mind while being judgemental and dominating in their faith and try to persuade people to love one another, most all of these people carry weapons and many stockpile weapons.
I know childhood friends who are now evangelical preachers who keep guns everywhere.
Big guns. They claim they are for hunting but I surely do not know how a poor Bambi could survive as a meal while being blown away by an AK47 or some high powered semi automatic.
The evangelical movement evolved some time back as keepers of the gate with an agenda to bring every person into their way of thinking. Many evangelicals started building crosses across the world, starting home schools teaching only their oversight, Bullying women from the pulpit or at least I have heard some preachers do this and getting the general public involved in their community Halloweve celebration. Public school kids even had backpack notes sent home of the celebrations. It was called Fall Festival at Church but if you stuck around long enough to would be invited to come back to the Hell Show. Bring the kids !!!! I wonder now..How many were also bringing their guns.
This is the Evangelical Charasmatic movement and there are some good people into this.
They are misguided . They are misled and for the most part they are poor. Ted Cruz,
Michelle Bachman, Sara Palin, and the Glen Beck's are into this movement. They are led by Gary Baurer of the Moral Majority. They are led by The James Dobsons and Liberty University, along with the Southern Baptists, Assembly of Gods and hosts of others. They do have an agenda. This is their agenda... http://www.thepropheticyears.com/...
Someone like me never fit in. Someone like me was raised by a poor preacher fellow who didn't talk politics, talked about the B attitudes, caring for the poor and called most of these preachers out to their face. He had little use for their beliefs when they tried to bring it to his non paying church building. He eventually quit going to church and would not listen to televangelical shows. . He never lost his faith or prayers though. He chose Matlock and Bonanza for tv viewing. He voted dem till the day he died. He and my Mom dressed us up as ghosts and goblins and all kinds of witches and let us be kids.
He never heard of a Trunk or Treat and he absolutely could not stand George Bush..either of them.
I am glad sometimes Daddy is gone because all of his cousins and brother and sisters have gone to the side of evil ways destroying the country. He would not approve. He would say, " They know better than this". I, too was the child of a preacher who did not go down this path of telling me I was destined to rule the world while destroying it. My Dad taught me to get love from a spirit of love and not fear. He taught me that I would mess up and to make it right. He corrected me when I would get all aggravated and burst into anger even as an adult over some political mess but most of the time he would shake his head and say, " I don't know what this world is coming to". You are right but approach it with honor and respect, when I was blasting some nonsense of wrong doing of the less fortunate or the VA.
My Dad would not let anyone doom us to Hell with their notions of salvtion and right and wrong. My Dad was sane. Even with the onset of Alzheimers.. My Dad knew this cultish behavior was going to be bad and he warned many. Few listened from that neck of the woods.
My Dad was no Rafael Cruz. My Dad was a simple man with good sense . I will say this, if you are not afraid of Halloween this day and time, maybe you better go see what the American Taliban led by Rick Santorium and Ted Cruz has done to it.
I hope this post educated some of you of what is driving this country off a cliff. Markos did a great job of detailing it in his book. Please subscribe here and read it..
If you want to see the Judgment Day you tubes.. go there and see for yourself. It will concern you. Me.. I have Been there and have seen it in real life, when I lived last time up in Georgia. North Carolina has a big deal going on in their churches showing at a church near you Carolina folks.
Here is one if you ever want to see this stuff. I could write series on what I know about the influence and the distortion of all of this.