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Each wave identifies with different theologies regarding the Holy Spirit-but, which is universally understood as God within. Many Christians, including even some conservative Pentecostals, have rejected the "Third Wave" as being unbiblical.


One of the top reads in NAR circles is the novel, KINGDOM LOST. According to their website KINGDOM LOST is "A novel they will not want you to read." "An enjoyable read." "Tense story." "Ominous, I would recommend it."

Wayne Buchanan, Radio Talk Show Host & Assemblies of God Pastor went on the record, "If there is one novel a Christian ought to read in their lifetime, it's Kingdom Lost. It'll scare the willies out of everyone else too."

Something else that should have scared the willies out of everyone was another article by Jeff Sharlet, who wrote for HARPER'S May 2009 edition, "The Crusade for a Christian Military: Jesus Killed Mohammed" regarding the entrenchment of Christian fundamentalism in the USA military beginning during the Cold War that accelerated during the Vietnam era and has wrecked havoc on the soul of our nation and misery for multitudes.

Fundamentalist [referred to as evangelical by Sharlet] Chaplains began to join the military in droves as they aligned themselves with the Industrial Military Complex in opposition with Catholics and mainline moderate Protestant denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians who were of one voice speaking out against American terrorism in Vietnam and for following in the ways of the nonviolent Jesus.

"Starting in 1987, Protestant denominations were lumped together simply as "Protestant"; moreover, the Pentagon began accrediting hundreds of evangelical and Pentecostal "endorsing agencies," allowing graduates of fundamentalist Bible colleges--which often train clergy to view those from other faiths as enemies of Christ--to fill up nearly the entire allotment for Protestant chaplains. Today, more than two thirds of the military's 2,900 active-duty chaplains are affiliated with evangelical or Pentecostal denominations." [3]


"For decades, the military built a sense of solidarity out of a singular purpose, the Cold War struggle between free markets and state-planned economies--the shining city on a hill versus the evil empire"meshed neatly with ideologies [that connected] nationalism and fundamentalism"Communism"the dark alternative should we fail to unite. Fundamentalism thrived"a neat, black-and-white [theology and] a foreign policy. The end of the Cold War deprived militant evangelicals of that clarity [and] the emergence of "radical Islam" [became] the object of a new Cold War." [Ibid]

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