Palin doing a little "spiritual mapping"? Kind of creepy!

[onecent]

A friend of mine directed me to this website today. Pretty interesting, I had never heard of spiritual mapping before...

http://www.talk2action.org

Dog Whistle for Prayer Warriors - Palin as Victim of Blood Libel, Part Two
Rachel Tabachnick

"Spiritual mapping, taught by many apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation and related ministries, involves marking the locations of so-called "demonic strongholds" on maps of a community or city. If it sounds a little like Palin's now infamous map of targets, it is. More importantly, the spiritual warfare practiced by those who believe that their prayers can eradicate the houses of worship, organizations, and businesses of those whom they don't approve, has no doubt desensitized them to the demonization of others.".....

Spiritual mapping involves making a map of a community and marking the location of demonic "strongholds" which must be removed. The Transformation movies show proto-types of communities in which spiritual warfare has supposedly resulted in mini-utopias.'''''

Sarah Palin's speeches are not incoherent. They are written for her base and they make perfectly good sense if you know the narratives on which their worldview is founded. I would like to think that this past weekend's terrible tragedy might result in a change in the political atmosphere for the better. But the underlying problems behind the violent rhetoric go deeper than incivility. They are at least partially based on the belief among many in the Religious Right and the Tea Parties that they are, in the most literal sense, fighting demons.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. She is not an idiot, or an imbecile... she is dangerous

and not in the political sense...

People better pretty much catch all about Eschatology...

[JoePhilly]

2. Sounds more like a sequel to the Da Vinci Code.

[The Doctor.]

10. There really are many people like this.

The truly believe that they are fighting evil by targeting libraries, community centers, churches, anything that someone can tell them is 'demonic'.

[DCKit]

3. Little wonder then, that she comes off as incoherent.

It's ALL dog whistles.

[madmax]

4. Wish she'd get herself

a geographical map and find her way back to Alaska and stay there.

[ladywnch]

5. this is rather expected given that she was 'blessed' by a 'minister' who

had a woman run out of town for being a 'witch'. I'm not at all surprised she would be invovled with this. She is a vindictive grifter, what better way to cover your vindictive attacks than religion?

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Not just the religious right. Wish it were so, but it is not.

Even the President has used surrogates who speak of demonic influences openly, call for war against the minorities they do not like, level accusations of murdering Christian children, the works. He made one of these cats his sole personal surrogate at events. So it is a belief among many of the Christian world. Period. No political line can be drawn. It is many Christians. That is how it is. They are a subset of Christians, not of Republicans. Many are Obama Democrats, like DuBois and Leah Daughtry, they totally believe all of this warfare talk and all of the 'demons among us' crazeeeee.
I just do not like playing cover for it. It is not many in the religious right, it is many in Christianity.

[snagglepuss]

7. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness always come to mind when I

think of Palin and her followers. The beginnings scene where people in an utterly sterile empty business part of LA (?) gather at a church and are transfixed. The same creepiness is the same. I've read it is one of the scariest horror movies ever made. I who hate horror movies could only watch the first half hour, the sense of impending doom was just too much for me. Like I said Palin and her followers remind me of this movie.

[TalkingDog]

12. Though I loved the movie, it was suspensful, but not nearly scary

It suffered the same flaw as a lot of modern horror, it showed "the monster" (satan, or a bit of him anyway) and that bit was so plastic and fake that it drained the movie of any suspense.

John Carpenter has made some truly good, yet fatally flawed movies. Prince of Darkness was one of them.

Dang... now I'm going to have to watch it to see how it held up over the years.

[BlueIris]

8. Some of us in the Astro/Spirituality forum were wondering about this.

Namely, whether or not she's trying to bring a metaphysical element to her delusional hatred.

[demigoddess]

9. i'm predicting that with people like these, we will someday

return to the days when we burned women at the stake in the town square.

[hatrack]

11. "Spiritual Mapping"? What a steaming pile of bullshit.

:eyes:

[FreeState]

13. They are such hypocrits - they don't care if this offends anyone

They pray over other religions and businesses owned by Gays. However they have major fits with Mormons doing temple work for people that are dead.