Saturday, August 12, 2017

A PRESIDENT “ANOINTED BY GOD”: POTUS SHIELD AND RELIGIOUS RIGHT’S AFFAIR WITH TRUMP

From Religous Dispatches- University of Southern California-

People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch this month published an important report by RD contributor (and PFAW senior fellow) Peter Montgomery, offering a compelling portrait of a group that calls itself POTUS Shield (which also stands for “Prophetic Order of the United States”).

The report itself is required reading for anyone interested in better understanding the contours of the unflinching support President Trump continues to enjoy from right-wing conservative Christians, especially white evangelicals.

I called Peter for some background. What follows is our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, about POTUS Shield’s roots in the New Apostolic Reformation, the “unholy alliance” between more traditional religious right groups and the Pentecostal leaders of POTUS Shield, and why, despite Trump’s dedication to demonstrating his moral depravity, these “prayer warriors” still stand shoulder to shoulder with this president.


More here-

http://religiondispatches.org/a-president-anointed-by-god-potus-shield-and-religious-rights-affair-with-trump/

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