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Rick Perry Partners With Radical Apostle C. Peter Wagner For The Response Prayer Rally

Governor Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally already has support from self-proclaimed prophets and apostles like Cindy Jacobs(link is external), Mike Bickle(link is external), Che Ahn(link is external), Doug Stringer(link is external), John Benefiel(link is external), and Jay Swallow(link is external), and now we can add one of the most prominent leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation(link is external) to the list of endorses(link is external): C. Peter Wagner.

Not only is Wagner one the founders of the International Council of Apostles(link is external), but he is also a chief advocate of Seven Mountains Dominionism(link is external), which holds that fundamentalist Christians should have control over all aspects of society, and a foremost proponent of ‘Spiritual Warfare(link is external).’ Wagner’s wife, Doris, is also an endorser of The Response. She is author of How To Minister Freedom(link is external), a collection of works that includes chapters on “Freedom From Homosexual Confusion,” “Freedom from Abortion’s Aftermath,” and “The Believers Authority over Demonic Spirits.”

Following the deadly earthquake in Japan earlier this year, Peter Wagner argued that the disaster was punishment from God(link is external) because Japan “invited national demonization” and the pagan Sun Goddess had “sexual intercourse with the Emperor” of Japan. He similarly blamed Japan’s economic problems(link is external) on the Emperor’s supernatural sex life: “Since the night that the present emperor slept with the sun Goddess, the stock market in Japan has gone down - never come up since.”

In his book, Hard-Core Idolatry-Facing the Facts(link is external), Wagner praised(link is external) the burning of Roman Catholic, Mormon, Native American, and other non-Protestant religious objects: “The leaders explained how important it would be to do spiritual housecleaning in their homes before they came to the meeting. They began mentioning the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness; pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon, pictures of former lovers, pornographic material, fetishes, drugs, Ouija boards, zodiac charms, good luck symbols, crystals for healing, amulets, talismans, tarot cards, witch dolls, voodoo items, love potions, books of magic, totem poles, certain pieces of jewelry, objects of Freemasonry, horoscopes gargoyles, native art, foreign souvenirs, and what have you.”

But in Rick Perry’s Christians-only(link is external), proselytizing prayer rally(link is external), endorsements from extremists like Wagner should come as no surprise as the Religious Right continue their embrace of Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation.