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  1. "The things The Guardian makes me do to myself, I can never get those four hours back"

    The Fash failing to understand why nobody likes their jokes once again...

    #Fascism #Entertainment #Ziklag
    #TheTalkShowWithEricMetaxas

  2. C. Peter Wagner, who died in 2016,
    wrote dozens of additional books with titles such as
    "Dominion!"
    and "Churchquake!"

    The movement allowed Christianity to be changed and updated,
    embracing the idea that God was raising new apostles and prophets
    who could not only interpret ancient scripture
    but deliver
    “fresh words” and dreams from heaven
    on a rolling, even daily basis.

    One of Wagner’s most talented acolytes,
    a preacher named
    #Lance #Wallnau,
    repackaged the concept of dominionism into what he popularized as the
    👉“7 Mountain Mandate,”
    essentially an action plan for how Christians could dominate the seven spheres of life
    —government, education, media, and the four others posted on the walls
    like targets at Gateway House of Prayer.

    What happened next is the story of these ideas spreading far and wide
    into an American culture primed to accept them.

    Churches interested in growing found that the NAR formula worked,
    delivering followers a sense of purpose and value in the Kingdom.

    Many started hosting “7M” seminars
    and offering coaching and webinars,
    which often drew wealthy businesspeople into the fold.

    After the 2016 election, a group of the nation’s ultra-wealthy conservative Christians
    organized as an invitation-only charity called #Ziklag,
    a reference to the biblical city where David found refuge during his war against King Saul.

    According to an investigation by ProPublica,
    the group stated in internal documents that its purpose was to
    “take dominion over the Seven Mountains.”

    Wallnau is an adviser.

    By last year, 42 percent of American Christians agreed with the statement
    “God wants Christians to stand atop the ‘7 Mountains of Society,’ ”
    according to Paul Djupe, a Denison University political scientist
    who has been developing new surveys to capture what he and others describe as a
    “fundamental shift” in American Christianity.

    Roughly 61 percent agreed with the statement that
    “there are modern-day apostles and prophets.”

    Roughly half agreed that
    “there are demonic ‘principalities’ and ‘powers’
    who control physical territory,”
    and that the Church should
    “organize campaigns of spiritual warfare and prayer to displace high-level demons.”

    Overall, Djupe told me, the nation continues to become more secular.

    In 1991, only 6 percent of Americans identified as nonreligious,

    a figure that is now about 30 percent.

    But the Christians who remain are becoming more radical.

    “They are taking on these extreme beliefs that give them a sense of power
    —they believe they have the power to change the nature of the Earth,” Djupe said.

    “The adoption of these sort of beliefs is happening incredibly fast.”

  3. JD #Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated #Tax and #Election Laws, Experts Say

    #Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the #Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in #political campaigns.

    propub.li/3UeH7LU

    #News #Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #JDVance #ChristianRight #FarRight #Law #Trump #Nonprofit

  4. Republican vice-presidential nominee JD #Vance’s appearance at a far-right Christian #revival #tour last month
    💥may have broken tax and election laws, experts say.

    On Sept. 28, Vance held an official campaign event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania,
    in partnership with the
    "Courage Tour",
    a series of swing-state rallies hosted by a pro-Trump Christian influencer that combine prayer, public speakers,
    👉tutorials on how to become a poll worker and get-out-the-vote programming.

    #Ziklag, a secretive organization of wealthy Christians, funds the Courage Tour,
    according to previously unreported documents obtained by ProPublica and Documented.

    🔥A private donor video produced by Ziklag said the group intended to spend $700,000 in 2024 to mobilize Christian voters by funding
    “targeted rallies in swing states”
    led by #Lance #Wallnau, the pro-Trump influencer.

    Even before the Vance event, ProPublica previously reported that tax experts believed Ziklag’s 2024 ❌election-related efforts could be in violation of tax law.

    The Vance event, they said, raised even more red flags about whether a 🆘 tax-exempt charity had improperly benefited the Trump-Vance campaign.

    propublica.org/article/vance-z

  5. propublica.org/article/inside-

    🚨 #PROPUBLICA 🚨 13 July 2024

    Inside #Ziklag, the Secretive Organisation of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the #Election and Change The Country

    the little-known 'charity' is backed by famous rightwing donors, including the families behind #HobbuLobby and #Uline.

    It's spending millions to make a big political push for this election -- but it may be violating the #law.

    #Election2024 #USAShitShow #Christofascists #fascists #extrêmedroite #farright #hardright
    #NoPasaran :antifa:

    #BoycottJockeyApparel

    #TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:

  6. A secretive network of wealthy Christians, #Ziklag, is working to influence the 2024 election by purging over a million voters in key states and mobilizing Republican support for #DonaldTrump. The organization’s efforts include the "Steeplechase" initiative to use churches for voter mobilization, "Watchtower" to oppose transgender rights, and "Checkmate" to fund election integrity groups, reflecting a broader goal to establish Christian nationalism in the U.S.

    democracynow.org/2024/7/30/ins

  7. Might as well add #Ziklag to the #Project2025 #Christofascist #NonProfit list looking to subvert democracy.

    propublica.org/article/inside-

    "Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government.

    In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.

    “We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”"

    #TVAC

  8. @ProPublica Not surprised Ziklag does not have an entry in Charity Navigator, yet...

    charitynavigator.org/

    #Ziklag

  9. Ziklag?! Could these motherfuckers sound more like Nazis? Please report to the IRS for violating non-profit restrictions against engaging in politics.

    Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
    propublica.org/article/inside-

    #Project2025 #TrumpMustLose2024 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #FuckFascists #VoteBlue #Ziklag #ChristoFascists