Know Your Enemy

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In today's installment of Know Your Enemy, we take a closer look at Douglas Coe. Spiritual advisor to the American political stars, miracles and controversy follow this individual wherever he goes.


Douglas E. Coe (born 1929) is the "First Brother" and leader of the Fellowship Foundation, which is also known as The Family and International Foundation. Coe was born, raised and educated in Oregon, and is a graduate of Willamette University, where he met future Senator and Fellowship member Mark O. Hatfield. Coe. who is married to his wife, Jan, and has three children, is not an ordained minister.

A former banker, Coe became involved with Young Life, a campus youth ministry. In 1959 he joined The Family, and in 1969 he became its leader upon the death of Dr. Abraham Vereide. He was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America in 2005 by Time magazine. He is the father of David and Timothy Coe. D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist, has stated that "there is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country's leadership." At the Fellowship's 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, President George H. W. Bush praised Coe for "quiet diplomacy, I wouldn't say secret diplomacy."

Coe has compared the Fellowship to the Mafia: "They keep their organization invisible. Everything visible is transitory. Everything invisible is permanent and lasts forever.The more you can make your organization invisible the more influence it will have. Jesus Christ, when he organizes, the way he puts the organization together he makes it invisible."

In sermons, Coe repeatedly demands a fanatical and personal commitment to Jesus Christ, which he has explained as "Jesus plus nothing." Coe compares the level of commitment necessary to the blind devotion that Adolf Hitler demanded from his disciples. His teachings also have referenced Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong as examples of dedication. Coe avoids publicity and has been cited as a spiritual advisor to many politicians, ranging from Hillary Clinton to Mark Sanford.

Coe arranged a meeting between Bob Mitchell, the President of Young Life, and Jay Kesler, the President of Youth for Christ, to a meeting at Fellowship House in Washington, D.C. on July 29, 1980, which led to the formation of Military Community Youth Ministries (MCYM).

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Coe on many occasions as First Lady of the United States. According to NBC News, she participated in a prayer luncheon at The Cedars, the Fellowship's mansion in Arlington, Virginia in February 1993 and met privately with Coe in her West Wing office on December 19, 1997, and a “Meet & Greet with Business Leaders” on Feb. 4, 1998. Clinton has written that Doug Coe is "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God." Doug Coe has been referred to as a friend and hero by former Senator and Vice President Al Gore.

In 2000, Coe met with top economic officials of Pakistan as a "special envoy" of Fellowship member Representative Joe Pitts. Coe and President George H.W. Bush hosted luncheon with Iraq's ambassador to the United States in the mid-1980s.

Coe was a member of the United States delegation which accompanied First Lady Hillary Clinton to the 1997 funeral of Mother Theresa.

Doug Coe is mentioned by John Ortberg in his book "If you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat" as the pastor of a man, named only as 'Bob', who had great influence on bringing medicine and releasing political prisoners in Kenya.

On Real Time with Bill Maher, Jeff Sharlet recounted a discussion he had with Coe's son David. "Suppose I hear you rape three little girls. What would I think?" The man said he thought Coe would consider him awful and a monster. Coe said, "No. No I wouldn't because you're Chosen. As a member of The Family, you're Chosen and, when you're Chosen, the normal rules don't apply. Morality is for the little people."
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But of course you won't care because you ARE the little people and have no clue of what he's doing and what the true implications are.

That and you don't care to know your enemy because you'd rather live sheltered from reality.

Coe is an evil and sick fu**ed up man.

But it is followers lusting after a guru that make the evil manifest.

The Pied Piper of Rot.

ruveyn

Oh, good grief.

This is a perfect example of political/religious spin in order to fulfill some sort of twisted agenda.

I lived in Washington DC for eight years, and I worked for the International Foundation - and I still have friends that live and work there. The Foundation itself is made up of about 200 organizations, and each has it's own employees, offices and accounting systems.

After the birth of my first child, I did some writing for Doug. He's just a normal person. He's not a guru, he's not a fanatic, he does not make demands of those around him, nor does he promote any sort of nazi-type allegiance. He doesn't have followers, lol.

He tends to work 'out of sight', not to be covert, but to follow the Biblical principle found in Matthew 6:1:

Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them...

In terms of being out of touch with reality, DC is a world unto itself. He's no more or less sheltered than anyone else who lives and works there.

What you've written is slanderous nonsense.

*glances at skafather84, and then at studentM*

I don't know what the hell to think.

How about some links, skafather84?

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/03/857959.aspx

NBC News Exclusive: Political ties to a secretive religious group
Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:10 PM ET
Filed Under: Politics

By Andrea Mitchell and Jim Popkin, NBC News

Interesting read. Seems mister Coe has a deranged political agenda... If political elites in the USA consider him a "friend", we've identified the reason why things are going the way they are in the country. =P

well, he's dang near 80, so he won't be doing much for much longer.

If you're worried about evangelicals, take a look at the Air Force University in Colorado.