As Peter noted in the analysis piece he wrote this morning about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent prayer rally, “one of the biggest problems with treating politics as spiritual warfare is that you turn your political opponents into spiritual enemies. People who disagree with you on public policy issues are not just wrong, but evil, or even satanic.”
As if to help prove this very point, Bryan Fischer said on his radio broadcast today that the people who were protesting Jindal’s event were literally driven by demonic spirits.
Fischer — whose employer, the American Family Association, sponsored Jindal’s rally — took a call from a listener who attended the prayer rally and who asserted that “the Devil is mad [about Jindal’s rally] and that’s why he sent those protesters there” and Fischer, of course, agreed.
“I don’t think you will ever find a more directly demonic energy than when you deal with the homosexual agenda,” he said. “They’re vicious. They are mean. You literally are staring into virtually the unvarnished energy of Satan himself when you come up against the forces that are pushing the homosexual agenda forward”:
