Ohio "Christocrats" plan political takeover.

[moobu2]

This was posted on media transparency the Sept 6th but I thought it was interesting. In case you missed it, check it out.

Ohio Players
Two Christian Evangelists aim to take over the state's Republican Party


Despite the subsequent controversy over widespread abnormalities on Election Day 2004, late in the evening of November 2, it was determined that Ohio voters had delivered the final dart to the heart of the presidential hopes of Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.

Now, Christian evangelical ministers in Ohio are teaming-up to form a network intent on building on their constituency's extensive contribution to both President Bush's victory and the passage of Issue 1 -- an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage -- and help Christian conservatives take over the state's Republican Party. The Reverend Rod Parsley and the Rev. Russell Johnson are two key players in an effort to wrest control of the GOP from so-called Party moderates. Their job has no doubt been made easier by the fact that Republican Party officials have been enmeshed in a series of political scandals that even includes the state's Republican Governor, Bob Taft. (For more on the governor's troubles, see, MoveOnTaft.org, a website recently jointly established by the conservative American Policy Roundtable and the liberal Ohio Citizen Action).

Americans must be ''Christocrats" -- citizens of both their country and the Kingdom of God -- the Reverend Rod Parsley told his congregation on a recent Sunday at his World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio. "And that is not a democracy; that is a theocracy," he said. "That means God is in control, and you are not."

Headed by Rev. Parsley, a 48-year-old televangelist and author, the World Harvest Church, described recently by The Columbus Dispatch, as "a nondenominational congregation with a regular weekly attendance" of between 10,000 and 12,000, is one of many politicized mega churches popping up all across the country.

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[Fenris]

1. "And that is not a democracy; that is a theocracy."

They're not even trying to hide their aims anymore.

[acmavm]

2. They have officially made themselves elibible for taxation. Reverend

Parsley should be getting the first tax bill.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

6. I think more importantly they have made themselves eligible

Too be classified as an enemy of the state.

[buff2]

3. Parsley is a tool of the devil

mascarading as a minister. He is a lying snake oil salesman and the GOPerverts buy it. I loathe those hypocrite phoney "religous" repukes. :puke:

[flamingyouth]

4. "God is in control?"

It sounds like Rod Parsley is in control to me, not God. :shrug:

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Isn't encouraging the overthrow of the government treason?

Or am I missing something? How is advocating the end of democracy in the United States not treason, particularly when doing so through the auspices of a tax-free megachurch?