Experience? Who needs it. Know-how? Who cares. Chutzpah? Who knows.This election will be the most historic of our generation so why not involve God just a little more. How? Oh, well that’s easy. Ensure the potential Veep is demon-proof and she is protected from witchcraft. No, really.I mean, when you’re in a pinch against terrorism [...]

This is from the Washington Post’s Palin’s Pastor ProblemThis is the issue. The guy Thomas Muthee says that there is a witch in his town. The Bible speaks of witches. They exist, ok? He says that the witch is bewitching people. Does any Christian claim that this does not happen? It happened in the Bible, right? Are we really going to get so sophisticated that our faith becomes presentable to polite society? Hey, if that is the UNSTATED goal of such doctrines as CESSATIONISM, then count me out. Or how about this: any of you who believe that there never was such a thing as a witch, or that witches cannot go about causing all sorts of havoc, present your doctrine and the biblical theology behind it. (Also, reports from the missionary field would tend to support the existence of witches and the things that they do.) So Muthee says that this witch should either convert to Christianity or get out of town. She got out of town. You know that that means? THAT SHE WAS A WITCH! Did Muthee have the right to do this? Actually, yes he did. Kenya does not have our notions of religious freedom. You can say that it is not New Testament doctrine to go running witches out of town. Fine. That is a Bible - based argument that we can contend over if you like. But I don’t want to hear any hypocrisy from liberals who are just fine with the Canadian and British governments kicking Christians that oppose homosexuality as the Bible does off their airwaves and giving them huge fines. Like Kenya, Canada and Britain do not have religious freedom, which gives them the right to do so. And I do not want to hear any hypocrisy from liberals who are just fine with the harassment of the Boy Scouts in this country, a nation that DOES have religious freedom, because of their opposition to homosexuality. The difference between various cities passing ordinances against the Boy Scouts’ using their public schools for meetings in a nation that respects religious freedom and a pastor telling a witch to get out of town in...

This video is getting some circulation now.  The Pastor in the video is a man by the name of Thomas Muthee.  He has an interesting record to say the least.  Read about it here from CSMonitor. Muthee believes very strongly in the existence of demonic spirits and fighting against them.  He prays over Palin that the evil of witchcraft be driven.Steven Benen at Political Animal has some thoughts/questions on the matter.He writes:Just to clarify, the pastor’s interest in witches and witch hunts is not metaphorical — he means it literally.To muddy the waters for a second, while I obviously know what Steve means here, his understanding/use of metaphorical is less helpful not more.  Northrop Frye understood that the metaphorical is the literal meaning of the Bible.  In other words, metaphor is concrete.  Benen is using language (according to Frye’s schema) in its third paradigmatic form: representational (think modern, scientific language/discourse).  Truth is what can be precisely represented, really described.  Therefore in this pattern, metaphorical means something more like symbolic or abstract.  When applied to say demons/evil it would be something like Ricoeur’s Symbolism of Evil or Wink’s The Powers.    Why this matters is that it would be easy to call Muthee a fundamentalist.  But actually he is not.  Fundamentalism is a purely modern phenomenon.  Take creationism.  There was no equivalent of creationism in the ancient, medieval, or Renaissance/Reformation Church.  In a fundamentalist view, science (read: objectivity) has already taken on the force of being the legitimator, really the fundamental way of understanding truth/the world.  And to square that circle as a fundamentalist, you argue that the Bible is the real science–hence creation science.But Muthee is not from that world.  He has not come post-Western Enlightenment.  The concerns of the Western Enlightenment are not his concerns.  He comes from a world formed out of the Bible in the metaphorical sense...

Oh yes. She got a bunch of men and women supporting her. Mindless men and women. Sleepwalking men and women. Men and women who are not in the least bit interested in her qualifications, but rather that she's been 'anointed'.

Oh, and by the way. There's no such thing as witchcraft. Uh, no way. No how.

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