Rick Perry Partners With 'Apostle' Who Thinks The Statue Of Liberty Is A 'Demonic Idol'

[Ian David]

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Rick Perry Partners With 'Apostle' Who Thinks The Statue Of Liberty Is A 'Demonic Idol'
Submitted by Brian Tashman on July 12, 2011 - 10:26am

As we've been reporting on Right Wing Watch, Texas Governor Rick Perry is working a number of radical preachers to plan his upcoming Christians-only prayer rally. Perry's partners in the event include extremists who believe that tolerance for homosexuality caused the September 11th attacks, Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist, the deadly Japanese earthquake was caused by the country’s Emperor having sex with a demon, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell caused bird deaths in Arkansas and violence should be considered to overthrow President Obama, among many other extreme beliefs.

One self-described ‘Apostle’ who has signed on as an official endorser to Perry's The Response prayer rally is John Benefiel of the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network, a group affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation with ties to other The Response endorsers including Cindy Jacobs, C. Peter Wagner and Jay Swallow. In a sermon last August, Benefiel argued that America is under a curse from God because the country possesses monuments to pagan idols and that Americans needs to renounce those idols if not destroy them. Benefiel claims that the Statue of Liberty is in fact a “demonic idol” because it represents a “false goddess.”

Libertas is also called the Freedom Goddess, Lady Freedom, the Goddess of Liberty. You know there’s a statue in New York harbor called the Statue of Liberty. You know where we got it from? French Free Masons. Listen folks that is an idol, a demonic idol, right there in New York harbor. People say, ‘well no it’s patriotic.’ What makes it patriotic? Why is it? It’s a statue of a false goddess, the Queen of Heaven. We don’t get liberty from a false goddess folks, we get our liberty from Jesus Christ and that Statue of Liberty in no way glorifies Jesus Christ. There is no connection whatsoever. So I’m just telling you we practice idolatry in America in ways that we don’t even recognize.

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[glinda]

1. So he is calling for destroying the Statue of Liberty? They will need extra

security for her now and the bill should be forwarded to Perry and this Group.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. They must be tied together inextricably

Most fundies are not so psychotic that they don't understand the implications of screaming 'idolatry!' about one of America's most beloved works of art. That's why Rick Perry must be tied inextricably with these wack-a-loons. Also, it dovetails nicely with his earlier flirtations with Texan secession, revealing him as even more unAmerican than ever.

[asjr]

3. People like this makes the Spanish

Inquisition look like a game of Hide and Seek.

[TlalocW]

4. The fool!

Doesn't he realize without the Statue of Liberty, Drs. Spengler, Venkman, Stantz, and Winston would not have been able to save New York City from the threat of Vigo?

TlalocW

[Maccagirl]

5. What about the flag? What about the Iwo Jima Memorial

at Arlington? What about everything named after Ronald Reagan? Isn't that idolotry?

[Froward69]

6. Lunatic

[Plucketeer]

7. Will anyone here protest

if I nominate this guy for Dunce 'o the Month??? It's really tough to choose THE most deserving of that title - the Right's so flush with viable candidates! :dunce:

[popsicle ricky]

8. Nothing about Jesus in the Alamo.

Maybe those Texicans should have been turning the other cheek and loving their enemies.

[Ian David]

9. Maybe in the gift shop in the BASEMENT of The Alamo? n/t

[SemperEadem]

10. kind of like those taliban morons

who blew up those ancient statues in Afghanistan because they were considered "idols".

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[ScottLand]

12. But we don't WORSHIP the Statue of Liberty! We worship the

Almighty Dollar!

[Crowman1979]

13. I'll be so glad when the population Texas becomes half Hispanic.

Then maybe that state will have some normalcy. As opposed to the dumb RW-nutjob dumbasses that roam the land.