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Blogging "Christ's War"
posted at 2010-02-09 20:32 | Last modified 2010-02-10 00:25
“I don’t know anything about that,” Tim D’Annunzio’s press flack Lauren Slepian told me this afternoon. Finding out from someone else that your candidate has a personal blog does not generally make for a good day. Finding out from a reporter is even worse.
Machine Gun Social
Charlotte’s Jim Morrill posted yesterday about a D’Annunzio fundraiser in Fayetteville Thursday. The GOP hopeful for the 8th Congressional seat is holding a “Machine Gun Social” at a local gun shop. For $25, donors can shoot a semi-automatic till they run out of bullets.
The commenters at Morrill’s blog had some harsh words on the topic. D’Annunzio was quick to shoot back (sorry), denouncing his “liberal” detractors as “racist redneck hicks” intent on “lynching” him.
“Hiding behind these web sites as "anonymous" is the same as hiding under a the white hood, COWARDS.”
D’Annunzio, unlike most of his online critics, signed his name to his post. The Blogspot username on his comment was “Paraclete.” If you click on the link, it guides you to the user’s blog, called “Christ’s War.”
"My journal"
D’Annunzio confirmed to me it IS his personal blog. He said he’s been writing it for about a year, and he hadn’t taken any special pains to hide his authorship: “It’s kind of my journal. No one follows it, but it’s out there for anyone to read.” As for “Paraclete,” it’s the name of his company, and he says he uses it pretty commonly online as a username.
Of course, "paraclete" is a religious term, too. And that’s what his blog’s about. It’s a potent stream-of-consciousness blend of biblical verse, exegesis, and conservative politics. End-times theology plays a big role, especially in connection with Obama.
[Obama] will deal with all these from a position of weakness. This isn’t his country, and he couldn’t care less about the consequences. He will cut and run.
We are entering a very dangerous time. Remember they are opportunists. Things are closing in on them with their socialism. They will welcome the outside focus at first until they come to the realization that they are getting people killed.
The best thing for US and the world may be the meteor option. We will see.
What time is coming? The end of the dispensation of grace, it is at the door.
"The Call - Revelation 14"
There’s plenty more where that came from: numerology, eschatology, even an account of his own personal conversion experience The Call - Revelation 14 , which he likens to “the pill scene in the original Matrix.”
I am not going to go into any of the details of specific events but will say that they all involved outside uncontrollable physical occurrences that corresponded and coordinated with my thoughts and internal conversations.
OK, one example of what I mean. Driving in my truck and thinking that if what I was being shown were true shouldn’t I have holes in my hands, feet and side? The answer came back that with everything else I have been seeing wouldn’t that be an easy thing if it were a necessary thing. My next thought was that no one is going to believe unless they can see and touch the holes. At that moment I had arrived at my destination and stepped out of my truck. Unknown to me there was a board on the ground next to where I stopped. My first step out was onto the board and the 16 penny nail that was in it. It went deep into my foot and at the same time the thought came telling me, I told you it would be easy if it is necessary.
That’s from D’Annunzio’s first entry on the blog. He goes on:
For the past 15 years I have been telling your religious and political leaders what time it is.
They have refused to tell you. I have warned them away from all the devastation that has come. It is going to get much worse and you should be prepared.
To be very blunt about what I am telling you, I am 100% man and the Spirit in me is 100% God, and this is the end of the age. Today I have expanded to telling the world what God to date only told your leadership.
There’s more to the post, of course. Read the whole thing here.
Campaign killer?
I try to avoid snark about anyone’s religious beliefs. That’s a personal matter. But you know, it’s not everyday you hear a candidate for Congress telling you he’s a direct conduit for God’s messages about the End Times, either.
I’m curious about whether this will have any effect on his chances in the 8th’s GOP primary. More secular Republicans may find his heady brew of theology and politics a little troubling. But D’Annunzio is positioning himself as the most conservative contender in the field – and for far right-wing Republicans, this sort of thing may be more of a plus than a minus. Additionally, if you read through the blog, it’s clear D’Annunzio could pass any conservative purity test anywhere with flying colors. So it’s hard to say whether this’ll do him any damage.
Comments? Drop me a line.
(And thank you to @Jerimee for asking about the blog in the first place!)
