The Texas Observer has several rather creepy articles out on soon-to-be Presidential contender and current Gov Rick Perry. One is called A Wingnut & A Prayer:
On July 17, Apostle Tom Schlueter, the leader of the Texas Apostolic Prayer Network, told his Arlington congregation that: “He’s [Satan is] going to go after us who are the army okay? Matter of fact that was interesting because the article that was written, it said Gov. Perry and his army of God and I thought, ‘That’s interesting, they got that right.”
I’ve heard of The Family, I’ve heard of the Moonies, but I’ve never heard of the New Apostolic third-awakening Movement prophets deal. Rachel Maddow had a great segment on this last night — it gets quite surreal about 3 minutes in — introducing the latest creepy right-wing nut jobs posing as religious authorities coming soon to a ballot box near you. The scary thing? I think they really believe this shit:
… I’ve never heard of the New Apostolic third-awakening Movement prophets deal.
Drop everything and go to the Talk to Action NAR write-up (lots of material there: bring a lunch). Keep tracking the T2A main page for regular updates on NAR & (much of) the rest of religious right extremism.
They’re serious, they’re global, and they’re insane (not in that order).
Sounds like Heinlein got the date right–2012 is the year he had a fundamentalist preacher elected President of the US: one Nehemiah Scudder.
“There was no election held in 2016…”