The day after I suspended my presidential campaign due to the impending Football season, Gov. Palin was named as the Republican VP candidate. Obviously, the Repubs followed my lead and nominated someone with about as much experience as myself. While a fresh face is a welcomed site on the Repub ticket, her association with the Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party (her husband was a card carrying member, and she sent the secessionists group a welcoming video at their in 2008 convention), her deplorable and duplicitous stance on ear marks (supported the bridge to no where until it became unpopular. When she was mayor of Wasilla she asked for roughly 27 million in ear marks. ) or, her apparent belief that God is pro pipeline and war, gives me pause. When she is interviewed by Charley Gibson this week I wonder if he'll ask her about her religious affiliation? (she and her husband belong to the Assembly of God church. Pentecostals. Holy Rollers who get filled with the holy spirit and speak in tongues. (languages that only God understands.) Now don't get me wrong, to each their own. Like Jefferson said, " . . . it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
However, when an elected official makes policy or military decisions based on their religious beliefs rather than rational thinking or the will of the people then I have a problem. Every country that has ever entered into war believed that God was on their side. The Christians say we need to fear the Muslims because they want to destroy us. Yet, those same Christians are eagerly looking forward to Christ's return. They speak of the "End Times" and how the can't wait for the rapture that is promised in the book of Revelations. Um, that would destroy us as well. Both these religious extremes should be cause for alarm. I don't want to be blown up by a Muslim extremists nor am I looking forward to Armageddon, the rapture or any of that hullabaloo. I've got football to watch!
DaG out
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When will someone address the issue that to try to impose your religious beliefs on those who have a different opinoin is unconstitutional? It violates the separation of church and state that our founding fathers worked so hard to put into our constitution. They can hold to their biblically based beliefs, but have no constitutional right to legislate against the rights of a woman to have free choice, dictate to those gender challenged folks or stunt the education of our children by teaching them superstitious bull shit creationism, pseudo science. Wouldn't you think that the "Scopes Monkey Trial", that occurred all those many years ago, would have put that issue to rest? Fundamentalism, be it Christian, Muslim, Judaism or tribal superstition, has been the rationale for social retardation and most wars since time began. Ambitious rulers and country leaders have used the superstitions (faith based beliefs) and fears of their people to recruit and entice them to fight their wars through out history. I could sight so many examples, but I won't bore you with that. Suffice to say that "The Dark Ages" were caused by the church keeping the people in the dark.
DaG Senior
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