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Monday, February 1, 2010

CREW To Obama: Skip The National Prayer Breakfast

1 Feb 2010

A prominent good government group is demanding that President Obama and members of Congress skip this year's National Prayer Breakfast, calling its organizer "shadowy" and "cult-like."

The group, Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, lashed out at the fundamentalist Fellowship Foundation, which has organized the breakfast with presidents and prominent Washington and world leaders since 1953.

"The National Prayer Breakfast uses the suggested imprimatur of the elected leaders who attend to give the Fellowship greater credibility and facilitate its networking and fundraising," CREW director Melanie Sloan said in a statement.

"The president and members of Congress should not legitimatize this cult-like group -- the head of which has praised the organizing abilities of Hitler and Bin Laden -- by attending the breakfast."

The White House confirmed to the Huffington Post that Obama plans to attend the breakfast, scheduled for Thursday, but had no response to CREW's letter. The Fellowship is closely connected to the now-notorious C Street House near the Capitol -- essentially a dorm for ethically-troubled Republicans.

"For those who have been housed in or sought refuge at C Street House," says Sloan's letter, "a shocking pattern of unethical behavior has emerged, sparking public outrage.

For example Senator John Ensign (R-NV), who lived in the house, is being investigated by the FBI and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics for events surrounding an affair he had with a former campaign staffer and his efforts to cover up that affair by helping her husband, his former chief-of-staff, become a lobbyist in violation of federal law."

The letter also mentions ethical troubles for C Street House guests Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), and Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.).
Very little is known about the Fellowship.

As Newsweek reported last September, "Nothing about its organizational structure is visible to the public: not its board of directors, nor its executive team, nor its mission statement, nor its 200 subsidiary ministries, nor its national or global membership."

Click here for a PDF of CREW's letter.

Rightardia comment: Obama has already skipped one of these prayer breakfasts. He should skip this one as well.

In 1942, Abraham Vereide founded Fellowship Foundation Inc. in Chicago as the middle United States headquarters for the growing prayer cell and prayer breakfast planting ministry. Vereide was openly sympathetic to European fascist movements in the World War 2 era. Doug Coe, the stealth evangelist, now runs The Family and the C Street retreat.

Source:

Arthur Delaney // Huffington Post

Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Origins of the Family

'The Family' movement was founded in Seattle in 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant and traveling preacher. He opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and was worried that socialist politicians were about to take over Seattle's municipal government.

Prominent members of Seattle's business community recognized his success with those who were "down and out" and asked him to give spiritual direction to their group who were "up and out." He organized prayer breakfasts for politicians and businessmen that included anti-Communist and anti-union discussions.

Vereide was clearly sympathetic to euro-fascism. He was the founder of International Christian Leadership and the originator of the National Prayer Breakfast.

Are you supporting Christo-fascism by attending a National Prayer Breakfast? You will have to make that determination.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Background on The Family

The movement was founded in Seattle in 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant and traveling preacher. He opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and was worried that socialist politicians were about to take over Seattle's municipal government. Vereide organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith

Prominent members of Seattle's business community recognized his success with those who were "down and out" and asked him to give spiritual direction to their group who were "up and out." He organized prayer breakfasts for politicians and businessmen that included anti-Communism and anti-union discussions. Vereide was subsequently invited to set up similar meetings among political and business leaders in San Francisco and Chicago.

Abraham Vereide believed he was contacted by God in 1935 who told the message in the Bible was misinterpreted. It was his mission to bring community leaders to Christ. This elite would then use private means the help the less fortunate. Verveide was pro-capitalist and anti-union. He was the trickle down advocate of the 1930s.

Doug Coe,the modern leader of the Family, has told his C street followers In Washington DC that they are above the Madding Crowd and that normal rules don't apply to the elite. The family consider themselves the “new chosen,” congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential “cells,” to pray and plan for a “leadership led by God,” to be won not by force but through “quiet diplomacy.”

Coe believes his followers are above the law and has used King David as an example. King David stole his general's wife and then had the general assassinated. Coe believes such behavior is appropriate for his special group of right wing Republicans. This philosophy may explain why Republicans presidents such as Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush authorized extralegal activities that were unconstitutional.

In his preaching, Coe repeatedly urges a personal commitment to Jesus Christ. It’s a commitment Coe compares to the blind devotion that Adolph Hitler required from his followers.

"Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler were three men. Think of the immense power these three men had, these nobodies from nowhere,” Coe said.

Later in a 2008 sermon, Coe said: "Jesus said, ‘You have to put me before other people. And you have to put me before yourself.' Hitler, that was the demand to be in the Nazi party. You have to put the Nazi party and its objectives ahead of your own life and ahead of other people."

Coe also quoted Jesus and said: “One of the things [Jesus] said is 'If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, brother, sister, his own life, he can't be a disciple.’ So I don't care what other qualifications you have, if you don't do that you can't be a disciple of Christ."

Writer Jeff Sharlet lived among Coe's followers six years ago and was troubled by their secrecy and rhetoric.

“We were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao. I would say, ‘Isn’t there a problem with that?’ They [The Family] seemed perplexed by the question. Hitler’s genocide wasn’t really an issue for them. It was the strength that he emulated,” said Sharlet, who is a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone and is an Associate Research Scholar at the NYU Center for Religion and Media in New York.

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