Palin was raised as a Roman Catholic.

In 2002, the year she first ran for statewide office, unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor, she left her childhood church and joined the Wasilla Bible Church, a nondenominational evangelical church that "believe[s] in the Bible as the only inspired inerrant Word of God authoritative for faith and practice," according to its statement of faith.

In contrast to Assemblies of God, the Wasilla Bible Church's statement of faith contains NO reference to such Pentecostal requirements as speaking in tongues, divine healing or belief in the rapture.

Not all Pentecostals are conservative (Leah Daughtry, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention, is a Pentecostal minister)

According to a 2006 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life however they are more conservative than other Christians on social, moral and spiritual issues, and only more LIKELY to believe in the rapture and end-times.

None of this makes Palin 'a rapture ready extremist' as described by 'noted provocateur' Sam Harris in Newsweek and no doubt to be repeated ad nauseum elsewhere.