The General’s back, in an LA Times Op/Ed piece:
In June of 2002, Jerry Boykin stepped to the pulpit at the First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, Okla., and described a set of photographs he had taken of Mogadishu, Somalia, from an Army helicopter in 1993.
The photographs were taken shortly after the disastrous “Blackhawk Down” mission had resulted in the death of 18 Americans. When Boykin came home and had them developed, he said, he noticed a strange dark mark over the city. He had an imagery interpreter trained by the military look at the mark. “This is not a blemish on your photograph,” the interpreter told him, “This is real.”
“Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy,” Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. “It is the principalities of darkness. It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy.”
This is tricky for me. I believe wholeheartedly in spirits, and plenty of other weirdness. I ought to be happy that someone in power takes the concept of evil as seriously as I do.
Problem is, if you’re not objective about it, evil starts looking a whole lot like all the things you didn’t like anyway.
Coming soon, George asks the FBI to send Fox Mulder to investigate….