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"Military Takeover"

"We estimate that between 28% and 34% of officers and NCOs (non-commissioned officers) in the U.S. military would either back or be extremely sympathetic to Joyner"
- Mikey Weinstein, Founder and President of the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF)

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

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Amidst chaos in Washington, while Republicans in Congress are accused of holding the "full faith and credit" of the United States hostage through the current government shutdown, a leader of the newly emerging, reorganized religious right who has ties to prominent Tea Party Republicans has just called for a "military takeover".

In a September 30, 2013 broadcast, as reported by Raw Story and Religious Right Watch, Morningstar Ministries head Rick Joyner -- a leading prophet and apostle in the theocratic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation who has ties to former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin [see: 1, 2] and other leading Tea Party-aligned Republicans -- publicly issued a call for a coup - a "military takeover" of the United States government and the imposition of martial law.

In an interview with former Reagan Administration lawyer Michael "Mikey" Weinstein -- who formed the civil rights watchdog organization the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) after discovering a pattern of coercive evangelizing at his former alma mater, the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs -- Weinstein told me his organization estimated that between 28% and 34% of officers and NCOs in the United States military were adherents to a supremacist form of Christianity known as dominionism who might back or at least be sympathetic to evangelist Joyner's call for a coup.

"It is a terrible mistake to dismiss Joyner as merely fringe. The opposite is true", explained Weinstein, who emphasized that there are dozens of dominionist evangelical para-church organizations engaging in what MRFF views as predatory evangelizing in the military. "Complacency is complicity," warned Weinstein, who called Rick Joyner's call for a military takeover a "red line" and also a "wretched" form of "sedition".

"We are most concerned about a fusion between dominionist Christianity and the military's weapons of mass destruction", warned Weinstein, who says his client base, members of the military who turn to MRFF for protection against coercive evangelizing, is approaching 35,000. Most of those MRFF clients, according to Weinstein, are Christians who are targeted for holding the wrong doctrine and theology.

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Hello!

I understand you want to be free from religion. I just have something that I notice about organizations like yours that seems a little like bigotry. The only religion you attack is Christianity it seems. That is the only religion you are against. It doesn’t seem to matter to you that the one that attacked our country(Islam) is becoming rampant and our president seems to support it. November is now National Muslim Month. They get a monument near the place where they killed Americans. They are the ones blowing people up overseas and killing innocent people in the mall at Kenya. I have never seen a Christian terrorist group that wants to blow people up for not believing in Jesus, yet you fight them like that are. Yes, they do have strong convictions and so do muslims. It seems you just have a strong distaste for Jesus and that is what fuels your organization. I never hear anything fighting against Buddist and Hindu freedoms. A lot of their religious practices are in our schools today. Like Yoga, that is where it came from. Being tolerant is not taking away the freedom to be against a belief, true tolerance would be someone who is able to have strong convictions and live in the same country without blowing them up. There are some extreme Christians out there(Westboro), but even they have not made death threats to my knowledge. Most Christians do not live that way and have done a lot of good things in the country. I am just confused about what your about. It seems that you only want to target Christians. Thank you.

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