Oh, speaking of whacked-out Fundamentalists, have you heard about Sarah Palin’s dominionist connections?

Sarah Palin is the weirdest kind of Christian — the fucked up Assembly of God kind whose church has connections to Joel’s Army. What’s Joel’s Army? “It’s a movement by radical Dominionists to build an informal paramilitary organization (at this time, it seems to be more attitude than organization) to prepare to fight to impose a kind of Christian fascism on the world.”

Even run-of-the-mill Evangelicals are creeped out by these people.

Go read this article about Joel’s Army and Todd Bentley. I’ll excerpt the first bit here:

LAKELAND, Fla. — Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous “supernatural healing revival” in central Florida. To contain the 10,000-plus crowds flocking from around the globe, Bentley has rented baseball stadiums, arenas and airport hangars at a cost of up to $15,000 a day. Many in attendance are church pastors themselves who believe Bentley to be a prophet and don’t bat an eye when he tells them he’s seen King David and spoken with the Apostle Paul in heaven. “He was looking very Jewish,” Bentley notes.

Tattooed across his sternum are military dog tags that read “Joel’s Army.” They’re evidence of Bentley’s generalship in a rapidly growing apocalyptic movement that’s gone largely unnoticed by watchdogs of the theocratic right. According to Bentley and a handful of other “hyper-charismatic” preachers advancing the same agenda, Joel’s Army is prophesied to become an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian “dominion” on non-believers.

“An end-time army has one common purpose — to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion,” Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. “The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel’s Army. … Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God’s kingdom on earth.”

I’ve always said Christian Right crazies are on the same road as radical Muslim terrorists, they just haven’t quite gotten to mass-killing and martyrdom yet. Oh, but they will. These are your future Christian terrorists, America. They, their minions, and their silent supporters (Palin?) have no business being anywhere near elected office in this country, much less the second-highest office in the land.

I repeat: Sarah Palin has connections to these people. Her church has connections to these people. Her church believes this way.

I’ve written about Todd Bentley before here.