Loren Davis Ministries and the Obama Slurs
posted 20th April 2008 in Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2008, George W. Bush, Irregular Ideas, Media, Religion by jclifford
If you’re at all involved in political discussions about the 2008 presidential candidates, the chances are that you’ve run into some comments about Celeste and Loren Davis, and the shocking revelations they are supposed to have about Barack Obama.
Among their allegations:
- Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim
- Barack Obama is part of a secret conspiracy to complete the agenda of the September 11 attacks
- Barack Obama and his family in Kenya are a socialist political powerhouse behind the recent violence there
Celeste Davis and Loren Davis are claimed to be plain, ordinary Christian missionaries who have gone to Africa, and have learned the sinister truth about Barack Obama by talking to people there. Who are these people, really?
Celeste and Loren Davis are the leaders of Loren Davis Ministries, which you’ll see is by no means a simple mainstream Christian organization, if you examine even it briefly.
Let me introduce you to some of the assertions, not directly referring to Barack Obama, made by Loren Davis Ministries:
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“Satan is a deceiver. He comes with many different masks: atheism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Communism, public educational institutions, Hollywood and the New Age to name just a few.”
“THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON AND BARAK OBAMA SPOKE AT RICK WARREN’S SADDLE BACK CHURCH. Why? What does having the politicians speaking at his church have anything to do with bringing people to Christ and faith in the Bible?… Hillary Clinton’s book, “It takes a Village to Raise a Child”, is a socialistic concept. Her national health plan is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Is Rick Warren’s promotion of these politicians just coincidental, or indicative of their common socialistic agenda? Rick Warren himself baptized a homosexual activist. This is defying the Bible.”
“The antichrist is coming. The paganized church is positioning itself to survive and thrive under the Antichrist’s regime. “
“An interesting thing happened during the American Super Bowl which determines the NFL Football Champion, February, 2007. The half-time entertainer had a big cloth of some kind around the stage on which he was performing. There was an appendage hanging down from his guitar. This created a silhouette that LOOKED LIKE SATAN with a forked tail, and below him showed the silhouettes of people with their hands lifted as if they were WORSHIPPING SATAN.”
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The Loren Davis Ministries web site is full of this kind of nonsense.
Some supporters of John McCain and Hillary Clinton who are worried about the popularity of Barack Obama are beginning to cite the claims Celeste and Loren Davis make about Barack Obama. I’ve got a piece of friendly advice to them: Don’t be tempted by the easy sensationalism of the Loren Davis slurs. It isn’t going to do McCain or Clinton any good to have their campaigns associated with the wacky extremist conspiracy theories about Satan promoted by Loren Davis.
Besides – it’s probably only a matter of time before Loren Davis declares that John McCain’s use of a 5-pointed Star of Sirius in his campaign material proves that he is a secret servant of Satan. As for Hillary Clinton, Loren Davis has already implied that she is part of a socialist conspiracy to serve Satan by destroying true Christianity.
UPDATE: Loren Davis Ministries has responded to this article by attempting to erase evidence of his radical beliefs. The group has begun deleting web pages from its site that reveal the bizarre belief of Loren Davis about widespread satanic conspiracies. If you want to see a sample of the evidence that Loren Davis has tried to eliminate, check out this PDF document of a web page we have preserved here at Irregular Times.
Don’t believe that it’s genuine? Go use Archive.org to search for http://www.lorendavis.com/news_articles_sirius.html . The page will come right up. Or, go to Google and search for “loren davis” sirius star and click on the “cached” link right next to the “Newsletter–Loren Davis Ministries” result.
It’s proof – Loren Davis is a disreputable conspiracy theorist, and he knows it. Why else would he try to cover up this information?
Tags: Barack Obama, christian, conspiracy theories, extremist, kenya, loren davis, muslim, odinga, satanic, wacky
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There’s Iroquois once again hiding behind “anonymous” slinging dirt at Obama with no direct reference – just a bunch of hearsay. So you are supporting McCain now Louise? Sour grapes, poor lady. Sour grapes.
Nope, actually, that’s not her, at least not by IP. But yes, Iroquois appears to be supportive of John McCain.
Anonymous is actually correct — he called Odinga for five minutes in January of 2008 to place pressure upon him. I have no idea why this is controversial.
It sounds just like her. I’m sure she’s found a few new open routers in her neighborhood to thwart your ban. She likely wouldn’t use her handle if she didn’t want to be blocked yet again.
I am proud to consider myself an evangelical and theologically conservative Kenyan-american pastor in Cleveland Ohio for the past 20 years. I happen to come from the Luo ethnic community of Kenya. And for your information both Prime Minister Raila Odinga andSenator Barack Obama families are known to me. The Odinga family was associated with earliest church missionary work in Kenya and the family has been part of anglican church (church missionary society). The late Oginga Odinga, the father of Raila Odinga was educated at Maseno Mission and later became a missionary teacher at the same mission school where Raila Odinga was born, baptised and confirmed as a church member. Prime Minister Raila has never denounced his faith in Christ. Prime Minister Raila is a committed christian and for your information Anglican church in Kenya is very evangelical and conservative
The Senator Obama kenya family side is related to me. Every time I have spoken with Senator Obama, he has requested prayers and thank me and the church for the prayers. It is sad and evil to hear someone claiming that Obama is a moslemand have especially when this comes from a missionary couple claiming to have worked in Kenya and have kowledge of the Luo ethnic group. These lies about Raila and Obama simply confirm that satan is a live and using human beings like these missionaries . This likes leaves me wondering if these people were true missionaries at all! I look foward to other evangelicals and conservatives coming out to denounce Loren Davis and Celeste Davis lies.
This missionary couple is an embarassement to the people of faith and must be condemned. I wonder what whose work couple did in Kenya!. It is one thing not to support Senator Obama’s Presidential bid but when missionaries spread of lies of ones character then it is the duty of Christ loving people especially church leaders to come out and denounce such lies because such activities can jeopadize the good work christians missionaries. Missionaries are trusted and lies like this one is dangerous if not challenged. I trust leaders such Dr. Dobson and the rest will come out strong and reject these lies against Senator Obama. As one who is a minister and has had good knowledge of Obama both as a minister, a Luo and a pesonal relationship with Obama family both in USA and Kenya. I can confirm to you that Barack Obama is a christian. All you hear to the contrary are lies from messengers of satan.
Rev. Abel Oriri
Pastor, Heights Fellowship Church
Cleveland Ohio
the link in #52 is causing softwear probs, can you remove it?
One quick scroll down, is all I need to abandon this website. I give it a thumbs down, pooh. I’m not familar with this style of Christianity. Thank you God of Love, who brought Jesus to forgive us from our sins.
This site could cause ulcers.
I like Obama and I like McCain. I think they are both intelligent and honest men. Are either of them perfect?, certainly not. I wish people would just stick to facts and quit the smear tactics. I will vote for Obama because after having 8 years of a Republican administration, our country has gone down the tubes financially. Hopefully Mr. Obama will get the country on track if he is elected. If he doesn’t, then I guess we will see what the next four years will bring us.
ARW, you say that Obama will raise taxes. He has promised to get rid of the Bush tax cuts that favored the wealthy, and to increase taxes only on those who make more than $250,000 a year.
Meanwhile, while claiming to cut taxes, Bush and the GOP have plunged us into debt the likes of which the US has never seen before, and which is on the verge of bankrupting our nation. Under Clinton, we finally achieved a balanced budget and quit deficit-financing our government. The minute Bush got into office, he rushed thorugh massive tax cuts for millionaires and he and the GOP spent eight years spending money like drunken sailors.
When you say you don’t like taxes, I have to ask, which services are you willing to give up? Those taxes pay, in part, for highly necessary services, including for you. Just because a few people take advantage of the system doesn’t mean we should make it impossible for the most desperate to get help. Meanwhile, with Welfare Reform passed under Clinton, there’s a five-year cap on welfare, so those kinds of abuses can no longer take place.
Are you aware that when John F. Kennedy cut taxes, the top rate was 91%? When Reagan cut taxes, the top rate was 70%. When the top rate was 91%, there was more income equality in the US than at any time before or since. With each cut in the top rate and with each new loophole for the wealthy, more of the tax burden falls on the shoulders of the middle class, yet we’re still running the government on empty, borrowing so much of what we spend that we pay billions in interest on that debt every month. That’s money that could have helped rebuild our infrastructure or (name your favorite program or need).
Taxes are the price one pays for civilization. Our tax system is so far out of whack today that there’s no excuse for the mess it’s in, yet the philosophy that one can keep cutting taxes on the highest earners, debt finance the government, and leave the interest and repayment to future generations is criminal irresponsibility. I’m voting for someone who has promised to undo some of the harm done by the GOP’s belief in the “magic hand of the free market,” which is not at all free, but consists primarily of socialism for the corporations and social Darwinism for the rest of us. Meg
what a bunch of hooey
Well this is my first time reading the Irregular Times and I do not have the time at this moment to look into other stories. However, in reading this particular story, I feel I must respond.
While I cannot confirm anything about the Rick Warren accusation, I will tell you that the others are absurd. I am a Christian, and conservative. I do not know every word of the Bible and I don’t claim to be perfect. In fact, I’m far from it, but it is Jesus Christ who has saved me and forgiven me. On that note, I must say that you are taking these statements written/made by Loren Davis in the wrong context. Having a Christian background, I understand exactly what Loren is saying and it is the truth.
I am not condemming you, rather reccommending that you look things up before you reveal your “facts”, and even ideas. Have you read the Bible? Have you searched it to find where Loren’s information is coming from? I encourage you to do so and see what you find.
Please, please, please look me up and ask anything you want.
Oh, and by the way, the accusations I was refferring to are the four that are bulleted on this page. I have not been able to look further into others.