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America's Pact With Satan

Haiti is cursed, Pat? What about else? What else besides a punishment for a satanic pact could explain the fact that Sarah Palin almost got a heartbeat away from the American presidency?
Frank Schaeffer
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Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood
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It's clear that America's Founding Fathers must have made a pact with the Devil. How else to explain the curse America is so obviously under today? I want to go even farther than Pat Robertson and tell it like it really is!

(Disclosure: back in the 1970s and 80s before I quit the evangelical right, I was on the 700 Club with Pat 6 times, given my late father Francis Schaeffer was a founder of the religious right).

What else besides a punishment for a satanic pact could explain the following?...

  • Sarah Palin, who got a heartbeat from the presidency and who believes that health care reform means there will be death panels and that she needed to have witches cast out in a Pentecostal ceremony before she'd run for governor

  • A whole subculture of American rooting for the "End Times" and Armageddon

  • Pat Robertson who explained 9/11 and now the tragedy of the earthquake in Haiti, as results of God's wrath and/or satanic dealings

  • Dick Cheney who betrays his country (and common decency) by saying our country is less safe because we have a Democrat for president

  • Rick Warren who coddled the "Christian" leaders in Uganda who want to kill gays (until Warren got called out and backtracked)

  • The "Family" and other Washington "Christian" groups working overtime to turn America into a theocracy

  • The evangelical hate machine working to deny gays their right to marry

  • The Roman Catholic hate machine aiding and abetting the evangelicals

  • Tea Party goofs who hate our government and think that "Hitler" is president

  • Private armies of murdering "Contractors" who are above the law

  • "Christians" attending the funerals of service men and women and screaming God hates fags and America

  • A bunch of Congressmen more loyal to their theology than to the Constitution of the United States

  • A military besieged by evangelical zealots trying to use the military chaplains and academies as an evangelistic spring board by "witnessing" to hapless soldiers

  • Tax free churches deforming American politics

  • Franklin Graham who is now taking the heretofore nonpartisan Billy Graham organization to the extreme hate-filled right, even getting old and out of it Billy to sign a letter endorsing Palin...

    • The list is as endless as we have fringe crazies, who turn out to not be so "fringe" given they now are the Republican just-say-no obstructionist Party.

    Yes, we seem cursed all right!

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    Frank Schaeffer is the author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back and Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism).

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