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It’s Not Just the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Birth, It’s Also the 500th Anniversary of John Calvin’s!

John Calvin was born 500 years ago, in 1509, but I have a hard time understanding what, exactly, we should celebrate about it, or how to celebrate it. John Calvin, afterall, looked askance at merriment, drinking, and dancing, so what exactly do you do to … Continue reading

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UFOs, Witchcraft, and Young Goodman Brown

I mean no disrespect of abductees or eyewitnesses who have had vivid and life-disrupting UFO encounters, and know  things that a UFO nonexperiencer (like myself) does not, but as I’ve thought about UFOs in a serious fashion these past few weeks, … Continue reading

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Witches in Africa: Still More Context for Sarah Palin’s Witch-Hunting Exorcist, Thomas Muthee

A fascinating article, from the London Telegraph, on “child witches” in Nigeria here. Money quote: The devil’s children are “identified” by powerful religious leaders at extremist churches where Christianity and traditional beliefs have combined to produce a deep-rooted belief in, … Continue reading

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“A religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus”: Christopher Hitchens Slams John McCain for Foisting an Irrationalist (Sarah Palin) Into the National Spotlight

Christopher Hitchens today in Slate (on Sarah Palin): High points, also available on YouTube, show her being “anointed” by an African bishop who claims to cast out witches. The term used in the trade for this hysterical superstitious nonsense is “spiritual … Continue reading

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“Groove is in the Heart”: Do This Magic Dance with Miss Torso and Break the McCain-Palin Icky Spell Over Our Nation!

Yes, I feel the spell is lifting now. Play again to levitate Wall Street.

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Thomas Muthee, Sarah Palin, and WITCHCRAFT: Is 21st Century Belief in REAL WITCHES Not Just Intellectually Incoherent, But SEXIST?

Thomas Muthee, when he prays over Sarah Palin, doesn’t talk about a spirit of “warlock craft” being broken over the nation, does he? And when he infamously, and literally, drove-off a person from Kiambu, a city in Kenya, that person was … Continue reading

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“We come against the spirit of witchcraft! We come against the python spirits!”: Thomas Muthee, Sarah Palin’s Sexist Witch Hunting Supporter, Preached in Wasilla This Week—and Max Blumenthal of the Huffington Post Was There!

This weekend, Max Blumenthal of the Huffington Post went to Wasilla Assembly of God to see Thomas Muthee, Sarah Palin’s exorcist and witch hunting supporter, preach. He smuggled in microphones and tiny cameras so that he could get some documentation of what he … Continue reading

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Did the Actions of Sarah Palin’s Exorcist, Thomas Muthee, Lead to the Murder of Mama Jane, the “Witch” of Kiambu?

Former Fuller Seminary professor Peter Wagner, in his book, Praying with Power (published in June of 2008), provides a rather detailed—and frankly chilling—description of Sarah Palin’s exorcist and witch hunting political ally Thomas Muthee. Specifically, Wagner recounts the start of Muthee’s career and his encounter … Continue reading

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See Keith Olbermann’s Segment on Sarah Palin’s Witch Hunting Exorcist, Thomas Muthee, Here

Sentry [on seeing the ghost of King Hamlet]: Ah, but this is wond’rous strange! Hamlet: Then as a stranger, give it welcome! More on Palin’s exorcist here: https://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/thomas-muthee-the-kenyan-witch-hunter-and-exorcist-who-prayed-over-sarah-palin-before-her-run-for-governor-was-featured-on-keith-olbermanns-show-tonight/

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The Times of London’s Shocking Article on Thomas Muthee, the Witch Hunting Kenyan Pastor Who Laid Hands on Sarah Palin at Her Pentecostalist Church Before She Ran for Governor

What is Sarah Palin’s connection to Thomas Muthee, the witch hunting and demon vanquishing pastor from Kenya? The Times of London did an investigative article on the connection, and it’s rather shocking. Read about it here.

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Sarah Palin and the Exorcist: Before She Ran for Governor, a Kenyan Witch Hunter and Demon Vanquisher Laid Hands on Her and Said, “Lord Make a Way”—and the Lord Apparently Did!

The Times of London reports today on Sarah Palin’s curious connection to the witchcraft and demon hunting Kenyan pastor, Thomas Muthee: The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a … Continue reading

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“That Powerful Instrument of Error and Deceit”: John Locke on the Dark, Spell-Casting Art of Rhetoric—and What It Means for Us Today

Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, is like alcohol. It can be used responsibly, but too frequently it’s not, and so it has a dodgy reputation, and deservedly so. It shows up in too many places that you wouldn’t want to … Continue reading

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