When Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, one of her first steps was to join a Bible study group. For the next eight years, she regularly met with a Christian "cell" whose members included Susan Baker, wife of Bush consigliere James Baker; Joanne Kemp, wife of conservative icon Jack Kemp; Eileen Bakke, wife of Dennis Bakke, a leader in the anti-union Christian management movement; and Grace Nelson, the wife of Senator Bill Nelson, a conservative Florida Democrat.
Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan. Link.
As a disclaimer, I must add that I don’t personally believe in Jesus or in a literal God with a Will and a Plan. On the other hand, I do see Christianity as a positive force whenever its emphasis is on brotherhood and compassion in the present world and not on soteriological superstitions regarding a future, imaginary one. Still, what a delicious irony lies here if Hillary is in fact more fervent and sincere in her faith than that sorry multitude of un-Christian Christian soldiers who despise her.
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