(Subtitle: "dude, you just joined a cult"...)
An online friend is trying to get his life together...and he appears to have joined one of these charismatic churches.
I know he's a very lost soul at the moment...and I was nudging him to go get state insurance, get therapy.
It may be a decent survival decision to join up with these charismatics...but he wasn't talking about demons and spiritual warfare last month...Watching him drink the Koolaid this fast is really kinda freaky.
Anyway...I have to grit my teeth sometime this weekend and listen to this "teaching." http://marshill.com/media/spiritual-warfare/introduction-to-spiritual-warfare
He sent it to me as proof that demons are real.
I don't think he got it. HE also told me some other guy's name and said "He's a good man, I believe him when he tells me about demons." So I asked my friend if he had any undoctored videos of exorcisms he could link to...no.
You want me to believe, I need the evidence.
I talked about how the charismatic exorcisms were...ritualistic catharses. That's why they work, IMO.
I actually think the exorcists, exorcised, and congregants really believe they are casting out demons. What I see them doing is purging out painful emotions in a way understood by their subculture.
Does it work? of course!
So, I looked up the term "spiritual warfare," and they...seem to be practicing Christian witchcraft.
Not kidding.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/20...riors_Palin_as_Victim_of_Blood_Libel_Part_Two
They set up a map:
(this one from Repent Amarillo)
And they will anoint the buildings or bury a bible in the ground there...any other religion, anything other than their personal view of Christianity included, gay people, places that sell Dungeons and Dragons...They will try to pray these places out of business.
And...rest assured, they are not just coming to save my poor, lost buddy...
http://www.talk2action.org/story/20..._and_History_of_the_New_Apostolic_Reformation
So...I find it interesting. For some reason it really is almost Christian Animist...the demons are in locations, they can be driven out by correct action.
The massive internal inconsistencies fascinate me too...if God can drive out the demons at all...why does God allow the demons free rein until properly propitiated by prayer and fasting? They don't think about this.
To people outside the US...these are the people who would like to control our nuclear arsenal/
No, I'm not o.k. with that either.
Here: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/8/6/135752/1937/ You will find a glossary of terms
An online friend is trying to get his life together...and he appears to have joined one of these charismatic churches.
I know he's a very lost soul at the moment...and I was nudging him to go get state insurance, get therapy.
It may be a decent survival decision to join up with these charismatics...but he wasn't talking about demons and spiritual warfare last month...Watching him drink the Koolaid this fast is really kinda freaky.
Anyway...I have to grit my teeth sometime this weekend and listen to this "teaching." http://marshill.com/media/spiritual-warfare/introduction-to-spiritual-warfare
He sent it to me as proof that demons are real.
I don't think he got it. HE also told me some other guy's name and said "He's a good man, I believe him when he tells me about demons." So I asked my friend if he had any undoctored videos of exorcisms he could link to...no.
You want me to believe, I need the evidence.
I talked about how the charismatic exorcisms were...ritualistic catharses. That's why they work, IMO.
I actually think the exorcists, exorcised, and congregants really believe they are casting out demons. What I see them doing is purging out painful emotions in a way understood by their subculture.
Does it work? of course!
So, I looked up the term "spiritual warfare," and they...seem to be practicing Christian witchcraft.
Not kidding.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/20...riors_Palin_as_Victim_of_Blood_Libel_Part_Two
They set up a map:
And they will anoint the buildings or bury a bible in the ground there...any other religion, anything other than their personal view of Christianity included, gay people, places that sell Dungeons and Dragons...They will try to pray these places out of business.
... Tolerance of others, such as homosexuals and those of other religions, is not considered a virtue but a failure to fight evil....
Opposition to other religions is based on the idea that beliefs outside "Spirit-filled" evangelical Christianity are controlled by demonic principalities and that communities can not be transformed until these demonic strongholds are eliminated.
And...rest assured, they are not just coming to save my poor, lost buddy...
http://www.talk2action.org/story/20..._and_History_of_the_New_Apostolic_Reformation
They claim this demonic control is the reason why people of other religions refuse to become evangelized and that the demons are also the source of crime, corruption, illness, poverty, and homosexuality. Purging of the demons results in mass evangelization and eradication of social ills,
So...I find it interesting. For some reason it really is almost Christian Animist...the demons are in locations, they can be driven out by correct action.
The massive internal inconsistencies fascinate me too...if God can drive out the demons at all...why does God allow the demons free rein until properly propitiated by prayer and fasting? They don't think about this.
To people outside the US...these are the people who would like to control our nuclear arsenal/
No, I'm not o.k. with that either.
Here: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/8/6/135752/1937/ You will find a glossary of terms
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