I Am A True Prophet

Posted onFebruary 18, 2012byRoyal Rosamond Press

Today, two lawmakers who are women walked out of the Inquisition led by an ALL MEN tribunal, because they blocked a woman from testifying. She wasn’t big enough, tall enough, religious enough, man enough.

I only found out this morning NATO is celebrating its founding. – today! I heard last night this even was going to happen. I watch a lot of news. I turn on T.V. and there is the Prime Minister of Denmark where Rena’s people hail. At the end of this video I argue with my foe about how Southern Evangelicals have been replacing the influence of NATO and the European Union with the New Coming of King Jesus, that atheist Europe abandoned. The Supreme Court if championing The Two Kings Rule and are now Isolationists, that worked for The Old Confederated Plantation Rule. Telling people what to do with their bodies and mind – is the tradition of Slave Masters. How could the real Jesus be on their side.

Sarah Palin came to mind. Her husband belonged to a Alaskan Secession group. John McCain made a huge mistake picking her as his VP – in order to grab the Evangelical Vote. Will Trump give her a Trumple Grab, or choose one of his Female Evangelical Prophets? Rozier did remind me Palin took a strong stance against Russia. Whey then do million of Republican Christians – LOVE PUTIN! All Democratic Candidates have to point this out. NATO West will be a Nation of Truth.

I HOPE Trump picks Hope Hicks who was given immunity by the Supreme Court, that now supports the New Christian Sexiness. The RIGHT of Republican Women to Feel Sexy in the Suburbs is being UPHELD in front of our eyes. Evangelical Think Tanks have worked overtime, shaming Democratic Women who they see as Euro-Sluts. White Christian women don’t feel sexy enough because brown people – INVADING THEIR BOUNDARIES – has give rise to fears they are going to raped at the edge of their swimming pools.

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EXTRA! I have to confess…..I AM FOR A “PAGAN PARADISE” IN THE WEST! I want the return of The Old world before that rebel, Jesus,was born!

“When Gibson pointed out that NATO membership would require the U.S. to come to Georgia’s aid in case of war, Palin said: “Perhaps so.”

“I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help,” she said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO leaders gathering in Washington starting Tuesday plan to shore up transatlantic support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia. But for host President Joe Biden, the summit has become just as much about demonstrating he is capable of meeting the grinding demands of the presidency for four more years.

Heads of state from Europe and North America are confronting the prospect of the return of NATO skeptic Donald Trump as Biden tries to save his reelection campaign, which has been in a tailspin following a disastrous June 27 debate performance against Trump.

The president said his work at the summit, where NATO is celebrating 75 years, would be a good way to judge his continued ability to do the job. He points to his work rallying NATO members in its stiff response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a prime example of his steady leadership and among the reasons he deserves another four years in the White House.

“Our allies are looking for U.S. leadership,” Biden said in an MSNBC interview Monday. “Who else do you think can step in here and do this? I expanded NATO. I solidified NATO. I made sure that we’re in a position where we have a coalition of … nations around the world to deal with China, with Russia, with everything that’s going on in the world. We’re making real progress.”

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Biden is in a blitz to persuade voters, Democrats and donors that he’s still up to the job. He’s been making his case on the campaign trail, in a defiant letter to Democratic lawmakers and during friendly media interviews over the last several days. Still, he faces skepticism from some longtime allies.

Six Democratic House members have publicly called on Biden to quit his campaign, other lawmakers in private conversations have urged him to step aside, and several high-profile donors have raised concerns about his viability in the race.

CNN) — NATO should extend membership to two former Soviet republics, and any Russian invasion of a NATO state could lead to a conflict with the U.S., Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin told ABC News.

However, the United States and Russia “cannot repeat the Cold War,” the Alaska governor said in her first interview since becoming Sen. John McCain’s running mate.

ABC released excerpts of Palin’s interview with “World News Tonight” anchor Charlie Gibson on Thursday. The full interview is scheduled to air Friday night on the network’s “20/20” program.

Palin said she supported NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia — a move Russia strongly opposes. She also said the United States must be “vigilant” about larger powers invading small democracies. Watch Palin say war may be necessary »

The interview comes just over a month after Russian troops invaded Georgia in support of separatist governments in two Georgian territories — a step that led to widespread condemnation from the West and a tit-for-tat freeze in Russia-NATO ties.

“We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to,” she said.

“It doesn’t have to lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War,” Palin said, “but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries.”

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When Gibson pointed out that NATO membership would require the U.S. to come to Georgia’s aid in case of war, Palin said: “Perhaps so.”

“I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help,” she said.

Palin said Putin’s goal is “to control energy supplies” coming from or through Russia.

“That’s a dangerous position for our world to be in, if we were to allow that to happen,” she said.

Critics have questioned Palin’s experience since McCain chose her as his running mate August 29. She has been governor of Alaska for less than two years and served as mayor of her hometown of Wasilla, outside Anchorage, for six. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on Palin and the election

But Palin said she “didn’t blink” when McCain offered her the GOP vice presidential nomination and is confident she could handle the duties of president if necessary.

“When John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we’ll be ready. I’m ready,” Palin said.

Palin has touted herself as a small-town “hockey mom,” a pit bull in lipstick who has taken on corruption in her own party at home and pushed for expanding oil and gas production in her vast, resource-rich state.

But her claim to have opposed the infamous “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska has been called into question, and she faces an investigation at home into allegations that she abused her office by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers.

Palin has denied wrongdoing in the matter.

The 44-year-old Palin is the mother of five children. The oldest, 19-year-old Track, is an Army private who is about to ship out to Iraq.

She said she is “so proud” of her son for his “independent and strong decision” to join the military — “serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer.”

Christian nationalists are enamored with Putin, even if they oppose Russia, new research from Northeastern professor says

Russian President Vladimir Putin has found support in an unlikely place: the U.S. 

Specifically, Christian nationalists, a subsection of America’s religious right, have flocked to the country’s autocratic leader, according to new research from a team of social scientists, including Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University.

Riccardi-Swartz says this level of support for Putin among Christian nationalists is especially notable given their simultaneous opposition or indifference to Russia itself.

“Even if Christian nationalists are ambivalent to Russia as a geopolitical construct or if they view it as a threat, they are still favorable towards Putin as a political figure,” Riccardi-Swartz says. “This seems to suggest that Americans who subscribe to Christian nationalist ideology are attracted to Putin as a strong man and ethno-nationalist leader just as they were with Trump.”

Christian nationalism is an ideology that, in recent years, has spread throughout Christianity in the U.S., Riccardi-Swartz says. It’s not isolated to a single denomination and is defined by the belief that the U.S. is a Christian nation with specific values that must be protected from “some sort of moral decline because of the diversity of democracy and the diversity of society at large,” Riccardi-Swartz says. 

As a result, it’s become inseparable from the “gods, guns, country mentality” that defines portions of the Republican party and U.S. conservatism, Riccardi-Swartz says.

To measure how favorable Christian nationalists were toward Putin and Russia, Riccardi-Swartz and her colleagues used data from the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2018 American Values Survey, the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel from 2021 and the 2022 National Addiction and Social Attitudes Survey. The data captures Christian nationalist sentiments during Donald Trump’s presidency, post-Trump and after the Ukraine invasion based on responses to a series of survey questions.

The study found that in 2018, respondents who indicated that America was or still is a Christian nation tended to score higher on favorability of Putin. Meanwhile, those who still believe the U.S. is a Christian nation, the most extreme category on the study’s Christian nationalist scale, were also the most likely to be favorable toward Russia.

In 2021, the results were largely the same: As respondents scored higher on Christian nationalist measures, they were more likely to be favorable to Putin.

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Notably, in 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people who scored very high or very low on the study’s Christian nationalist measures were both less favorable to Russia. However, the one thing that remained consistent was that as people placed higher on the Christian nationalist scale, the more they supported Putin as a leader. Russia’s autocratic leader is, at least for the American religious right, somehow separate from the country he leads.

“Even if the actions of the state are somehow violent and perpetrating violence towards another country, the man himself seems to exemplify what Christian nationalists desire, which is arguably a white ethno-state,” Riccardi-Swartz says.

The shift from the Red Scare concerns around the spread of Russian influence to Christian nationalists embracing Putin as aspirational might seem like a radical change. But for Riccardi-Swartz, it’s not that surprising given the history of religious conservatism in the U.S. and Russia. The country, particularly during the Soviet era when the state worked to reduce the role of religion, has historically been the target of evangelical efforts by American religious conservatives.

“American conservatives were always enamored with the idea of either saving Russia from itself or, now, using Russia to save themselves,” Riccardi-Swartz says. 

Riccardi-Swartz says Putin’s attempt to brand himself as a protector of “traditional values” and Russian Christians, resulting in the resurgence of the Russian Orthodox Church, has also helped remake Russia into a symbol for Christian nationalists. To them, it’s no longer an atheistic communist country; it’s a place where Christians have religious freedom, according to Riccardi-Swartz.

“That seems very appealing to conservative Christians in the United States who feel our liberal democracy is infringing on their religious beliefs,” Riccardi-Swartz says.

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Between Putin and Christian nationalists, the ideal is a “purity”––cultural, religious, racial or sexual––that’s in opposition to perceived social immoralities.

“LGBTQ+ rights, transgender rights, abortion access, reproductive equality––that is a threat to them because they perceive of that as somehow tainting the purity of their social culture,” Riccardi-Swartz says. “The goal then is to create a world in which the social values reflect that of their Christian values.”

Riccardi-Swartz is adamant that this research is not just data-based social scientist theory. Christian nationalism is reshaping the state of affairs in the U.S. Trump rode a wave of popularity among Christian nationalists to the White House, which resulted in key Supreme Court picks. The conservative majority on the nation’s highest court has since used that power to rethink everything from reproductive rights to the separation of church and state. 

At the same time, anti-trans rhetoric, framed as a response to perceived attacks on “traditional values,” has become a pillar of Republican politics, resulting in a slew of legislation targeting transgender people and the LGBTQ community at large.

Riccardi-Swartz says if Putin is a source of inspiration for Christian nationalists, who have gained tremendous political power in recent years, that’s only the beginning.

“If they look abroad to places like [Viktor] Orban’s Hungary or Putin’s Russia, those are places in which it’s not just started; it’s active,” Riccardi-Swartz says. “That’s appealing because they say, ‘Hey, look, here’s a blueprint for what we can do here.’”

Cody Mello-Klein is a Northeastern Global News reporter. Email him at c.mello-klein@northeastern.edu. Follow him on Twitter @Proelectioneer.