Does Sarah Palin Speak in Tongues?
BY JOHN FEAWe know she is an Alaskan reformer. We know she is pro-life. We know she was a beauty queen and basketball star. We know she eats moose burgers. But does Sarah Palin speak in tongues?
According to some reports, Palin attends church at the Juneau Christian Center, a congregation affiliated with the Assembly of God. As many of you know, the Assembly of God is the largest pentecostal denomination in the world. It is known for speaking in tongues, healing, and an emotional and contemporary style of worship with a lot of hand-raising.
Palin appears to have grown up pentecostal or at least attended a local Assembly of God Church (Wasilla Assembly of God Church) during her junior high school years.
NOTE: In an interview with Time Magazine, Palin said she was born and baptized Catholic but now attends a "non-denominational Bible Church." (I am sure this will all be cleared up shortly).
If Palin is indeed a pentecostal, I am sure the pundits will compare her to two other noteworthy members of the Assembly of God who were also involved in Republican politics: Bush's Attorney General, John Ashcroft and Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt.
I am eager to hear what Matt Sutton and Randall Stephens, our "resident" pentecostsal experts, have to say about all this.
I have posted a longer version of this post at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.
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Note also that, to my knowledge, Ashcroft was pretty cagey about the particulars of his Assemblies of God/pentecostal beliefs. I have no knowledge of him ever making predictions of or even allusions to the premill return of Jesus or talking about speaking in tongues. Best hold one's tongue on that one. One word about that from Palin and Jon Stewart would have a field day!
Would Aimee be proud?!
And yes, this could be the female version of John Ashcroft -- heaven help us! Will lady justice be draped again?
If Palin is a "second coming" of John Ashcroft, does that mean we can all look forward to another version of, "Let the Mighty Eagle Soar?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y
It brings to mind the backward masking scares of anti-rockers and anti-cultists in the 1970s!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gkPXSDtGQ
But to be fair, I am impressed that she was mayor of a town of 6,000. Those of us who grew up in small towns understand what a serious job that is! :) :)
i am a phi beta kappa grad of top university and i agree with every point made by triplatte
thanks
Sid