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Ted Cruz’ Religion Adviser Talks to God, Can Add Scripture to Bible

In early March, the Cruz for President campaign announced the formation of an official Religious Liberty Advisory Council. One of the members of Cruz’ advisory council, Bishop Harry Jackson, appears to have the official power, through his participation in a major prophetic organization associated with the radical New Apostolic Reformation movement, to add new teachings to the Bible — in a similar manner as Mormon prophet Joseph Smith’s discovery of scripture that comprises the Book of Mormon which, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints, augments and completes the Bible.

Harry Jackson has been a longtime member of a group called the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders that began in 1999 under the initiative of Cindy Jacobs, who then invited C. Peter Wagner to preside over the group. In 2008, Wagner officially passed leadership of ACPE on to Jacobs (1), with whom Harry Jackson works closely — such as in a 2007 effort to block the Hate Crimes Bill.

ACPE is perhaps the most important group of prophets in the global New Apostolic Reformation movement that church growth specialist Peter Wagner has played a major role in launching and helping organize.

Interviewed at length about the NAR in 2011 for National Public Radio, Peter Wagner has called for members of his movement to “take dominion over everything”. Wagner describes “dominion” as a process of “subduing” in which his movement becomes “the head not the tail” and NAR members rule “like kings”.

Harry Jackson has himself promoted the NAR’s characteristic teaching on the “Seven Mountains” which encourages believers to develop influence and control in seven key sectors of society, and referred to the Apostle Paul as the “Osama Bin Laden of his day”.

Beyond ACPE, Harry Jackson’s extensive involvement in Wagner’s NAR movement includes being listed as teaching a Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI) course in Malaysia, in 2014. Courses taught by the globally active WLI are one of the top ways the NAR spreads its doctrine.

Another WLI course instructor has been Ugandan NAR leader Julius Oyet, who claims to have helped co-author Uganda’s notorious, so-called “kill the gays” bill.

NAR doctrine holds that its movement prophets can receive divine revelation directly from God. ACPE’s two-dozen odd prophets have the ability to issue prophetic statements that can, in effect, add new scriptural teaching to the Bible. The one catch is that these prophetic statements cannot contradict scripture.

One 2007 edict from an ACPE member clarified God’s will concerning abortion — as an act that requires a compensatory shedding of blood. In 2008, ACPE head Wagner stated,

“There are principles in the Bible that you can put together and make a case for it, but you look up the word ‘abortion’ in your Concordance—it’s not there. See? And, so, all I’m saying is that’s a good, live example of something that we have received from the Holy Spirit that is now legitimate.. But the Holy Spirit has revealed to us that abortion is murder. See?”

In 2004, Bishop Harry Jackson appeared in a video interview in which Jackson and the founder of the Elijahlist website (one of the NAR’s main event and news clearinghouse sites, which boasts of having Sarah Palin as a daily reader) Steve Schultz discussed their mutual membership in the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders.

Harry Jackson’s name appeared on ACPE membership rosters from 2004 through 2010 (1,2,3,4,5) published on the Elijahlist website. Since 2011, ACPE has neglected to publish its full member list. But there are indications Jackson’s association with ACPE continues.

In 2012, Jackson joined ACPE head Cindy Jacobs at a rally against same-sex marriage and in 2013 filmed a fund-raising infomercial for Jacobs’ ministry. In 2014, shortly after a prophetic statement from Cindy Jacobs’ ministry concerning possible race riots over an impending grand jury verdict in the Ferguson, MO shooting death of Michael Brown, Harry Jackson flew to Ferguson along with Alveda King, who appears to have joined ACPE in 2016.

In a February 3, 2008 appearance at a West Coast NAR church, during a question and answer period, C. Peter Wagner revealed the radical power that ACPE prophets can wield. Wagner was emphatic — there’s nothing whatsoever about abortion in the Bible. “But the Holy Spirit has revealed to us that abortion is murder,” Wagner explained:

“the Holy Spirit still speaks to us today and we can hear from the Lord, and He gives us information, actually, that you can’t find in any of the 66 books of the Bible—even though none of it contradicts the Bible. If the Holy Spirit ever says anything that contradicts the Bible, then it’s false, see?

But there’s a lot of truth that the Holy Spirit gives us that the Bible doesn’t even touch, doesn’t even bring up, see? And so, I mean, like I say... You know, a big one that the Bible doesn’t even touch is abortion. Nothing in the Bible that condemns abortion. But the Holy Spirit has revealed to us that abortion is murder. See?

Now, that’s not in the Bible.”

The Call co-founder Lou Engle was quoted in an official ACPE prophecy for the year 2012 was listed as an ACPE member from 2004 through 2007 (1,2,3).

One of Engle’s prophetic doctrines presents a chilling example of how those who channel the voice of God can use their divine gift:

In late 2007, Lou Engle released his Doctrine of the Shedding of Innocent Blood that was originally published on the website of his The Call organization. Stated Engle,

“Surely blood requires blood in God’s judgment. God so highly values humanity that He protects it with His severe judgment. A day of reckoning is set if man does not obey Him... Where there is shedding of innocent blood, there is no atonement for the land. There is a blood pollution problem on America’s soil. The most “dangerous terrorist” is not Islam, but God. One of God’s names is “the Avenger of Blood.” Have you worshipped [sic] that God yet?”

Because of Lou Engle’s status as a prophet in ACPE, we can guess that Engle’s teaching may have been considered within the NAR movement to have the force of Biblical scripture.

In 2008, Lou Engle joined Bishop Harry Jackson, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on C-SPAN for a one hour public discussion on issues such as abortion and traditional marriage.

In a 2009 blog post, Engle compared late-term abortion doctor George Tiller to an Auschwitz death camp worker, writing,

“Tiller is being charged with 19 counts of illegal late-term abortions after he claimed ignorance of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, a federal bill signed into law in 2002 that protects children born alive from infanticide by abortion doctors.

[...]

Why should an abortion doctor be found guilty for criminal activity and a governor who has done everything to cover and protect that crime be exalted? Was it only the Auschwitz death camp workers who were guilty of killing the Jews or were the political leaders who sanctioned it guilty as well? The answer is obvious to anyone who has a heart.”

Little more than two months later, Dr. Tiller was gunned down in the lobby of his church, by antiabortion activist Scott Roeder.

Harry Jackson is one of several members of the Ted Cruz For President Religious Liberty Advisory Council who are involved in the New Apostolic Reformation movement. Pastor Jim Garlow and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, also on the council with Jackson, have had extensive association with NAR organizations.

In addition, head of a leading pro-Cruz super-PAC David Barton has numerous ties to the New Apostolic Reformation movement including a longtime friendship with ACPE head Cindy Jacobs.

Major NAR leaders to have endorsed Cruz’ presidential bid include Charisma magazine publisher Stephen Strang and International House of Prayer head Mike Bickle, who has claimed claimed that God sent Hitler to hunt the Jews.

Top NAR leaders have repeatedly emphasized in their writings the need for believers to destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and “idolatrous” religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.)

According to New Apostolic Reformation doctrine, objects to be destroyed include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hinduism and eastern religions generally, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha’i.

Source: HuffPost

[Bandit]

I think we finally found something that all Americans can put down their political biases and admit.

[Bandit]

According to the New York Times, Trump is only running because he got pissed off Obama and Seth Meyers laughed at him at a White House Correspondents Dinner.

Donald J. Trump arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April 2011, reveling in the moment as he mingled with the political luminaries who gathered at the Washington Hilton. He made his way to his seat beside his host, Lally Weymouth, the journalist and socialite daughter of Katharine Graham, longtime publisher of The Washington Post.

A short while later, the humiliation started.

The annual dinner features a lighthearted speech from the president; that year, President Obama chose Mr. Trump, then flirting with his own presidential bid, as a punch line.

He lampooned Mr. Trump’s gaudy taste in décor. He ridiculed his fixation on false rumors that the president had been born in Kenya. He belittled his reality show, “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

Mr. Trump at first offered a drawn smile, then a game wave of the hand. But as the president’s mocking of him continued and people at other tables craned their necks to gauge his reaction, Mr. Trump hunched forward with a frozen grimace.

Host Seth Meyers continued the barbs. “Donald Trump has been saying he’ll run for president as a Republican, which is surprising," he said. "Because I just thought he was running as a joke.”

After the dinner ended, Mr. Trump quickly left, appearing bruised. He was “incredibly gracious and engaged on the way in,” recalled Marcus Brauchli, then the executive editor of The Washington Post, but departed “with maximum efficiency.”

That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world. And it captured the degree to which Mr. Trump’s campaign is driven by a deep yearning sometimes obscured by his bluster and bragging: a desire to be taken seriously.

That desire has played out over the last several years within a Republican Party that placated and indulged him, and accepted his money and support, seemingly not grasping how fervently determined he was to become a major force in American politics. In the process, the party bestowed upon Mr. Trump the kind of legitimacy that he craved, which has helped him pursue a credible bid for the presidency.

“Everybody has a little regret there, and everybody read it wrong,” said David Keene, a former chairman of the American Conservative Union, an activist group Mr. Trump cultivated. Of Mr. Trump’s rise, Mr. Keene said, “It’s almost comical, except it’s liable to end up with him as the nominee.”

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Bandit]

FOX News vs Huffington Post reporters semi-fist fight at White House Correspondents Dinner

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Trump is ahead of Cruz in Indiana by 15 points the day before the primary.

[Bandit]

Donald Trump made mainstream on Tuesday a tabloid report alleging that Ted Cruz’s father was with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he is said to have assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Speaking with Fox & Friends by phone, the GOP frontrunner dismissed Rafael Cruz’s claims that his son is the candidate of God’s choosing, and then proceeded to parrot a National Enquirer report claiming the father was in New Orleans passing out pro-Fidel pamphlets with the future assassin: “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to [Kennedy’s] being—you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,” he said. “What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up? They don’t even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it.”

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade muttered that the report was unverified and full of holes, but allowed the candidate to steamroll any such suggestion. “I mean, what was he doing?” Trump continued. “What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It’s horrible.”

This election:

[Bandit]

Cruz dropped out. Trump is the GOP nominee. Hillary is basically President-elect right now since she'll win over 30 states easily. Ugh.

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[Bandit]

The Trump Administration Cabinet.

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Alex Jones — conspiracy theorist radio host and Trump supporter — released a 17-minute video monologue praising Donald Trump and attacking the various media institutions and personalities who had tried (and failed) to bring about his defeat.

Specifically, he took aim at Washington Post columnist George Will, saying that Will boasted a “classic serial killer look” (rather than murdering women and children, Will is “killing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” Jones says).

Jones revisits an Apr. 29 Washington Post column, in which Will referred to Republicans who back Trump as “quislings” and “collaborationists […] ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction,” and argued that conservatives’ task should be to help Trump lose the election in order to “reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party.”

“The total arrogance with a shit-eating grin of a pseudo-intellectual constitutional rapist,” Jones said, adding that Will was “literally mounting America, raping it in the ass, and telling us how great he is.”

He proceeded to encourage Will to “look in the mirror, realize you’re a traitor, and do the right thing, and put a .357 Magnum to your head, and blow what little is left of your brains out all over yourself, OK? You traitor, you Benedict Arnold, you piece of filth.”

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[Dr. Zoidberg]

‘Female Ted Cruz’ Porno Hits Web Same Day Cruz Ditches Campaign (NSFW)

[Roofus]

He loves Hispanics!

[Bandit]

That was the shot, here comes the chaser.

[Bandit]

Classy celebrity Trump supporter Tila Tequila tells a Jewish anti-Trump Republican she wants to put him into a gas chamber. Let's vote for him, guys.....





I don't like Ben Shapiro, he's a war mongering neo-con douchebag. But the guy graduated from Harvard Law School before most people are eligible for college. Meanwhile Trump fans are lucky to get their GEDs at 30.



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[Dr. Zoidberg]

Family Guy spoofed Donald Trump, angering republican fans

'Years of watching every episode of family guy, no more'

It’s no rarity for Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy to poke fun at politicians, and this year is no different.

In a bid for their first Emmy nomination, the show's creators released an image of their titular character, Peter Griffin, looking particularly orange and with ridiculous blonde hair.

“As long as we’re voting for loud dumbmouths, can I get an Emmy?” reads the photo’s caption. Of course, as you likely suspected, they’re making fun of the Republican’s Presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump.



Although MacFarlane is an avid Bernie Sanders supporter, some fans have been caught off guard by the cartoon, with some vowing never to watch the show again.

The official Family Guy Facebook page posted the story, with commentators underneath expressing their outrage. “Wehhhh he's a loud mouth is all you can say as you mock the majority of REAL Americans voting for him. Trump is going to be president deal with it,” writes one social media user.

Another comment, with over 850 likes, reads “Family Guy literally became less funny as they hired more and more liberal writers,” while another user states: “TRUMP is the only candidate being loyal to the USA, and the only one who understands what's going on at the border and within our borders.”

Some people took shots at the show’s creator (“Seth McFarlane is a liberal socialist douche”) with one person stating “Years of watching every episode of family guy, no more” - a comment that has acquired 180 likes as of writing.

Source: Independent

[Bandit]

I'm more concerned he appears to be wearing biker shorts.