Our constitution may separate church and state, but the political game’s increasingly influenced by religious winds. Who could forget the upsets Barack Obama and John McCain faced over their respective pious pals, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee?
Well, it seems Sarah Palin, whom McCain’s picked as his running mate, faces some of her own holy problems.
Nico Pitney and Sam Stein offer readers a view into Palin’s chosen church, where Ed Kalnins preaches with a fearsome fist. For example, Kalnins once declared that President Bush’s detractors should be sent to hell and equated the war on terror as “contending for your faith.”
It’s unclear whether Kalnins and Palin share identical faiths, but the politico’s certainly got a bit of Biblical fire in her belly:
Speaking before [a] Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
Wait – does that make Dick Cheney God? Scary!
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Jaroslaw
Religion is almost impossible, even for a contrite, pious believer. We should strive to do God’s will, but what is it? I often don’t know, but I do know that killing innocent people in Iraq or anywhere else is not part of God’s Plan. It is hard to believe anyone can be this simplistic and yet I have computer wizards and engineers in my own family who think like this when it comes to “faith.”
Darth Paul
I read in Newsweek that she also drinks human blood.
emb
So, um, one hates to ask but who exactly told HER that god’s plan involved sending US troops into Iraq based on lies, deceits, and forgeries created by the bush administration? Odd god, that one, working in particularly mysterious ways.
M Shane
This new order of republican women are crazy loonatics. I thought that Condi was a bitch , which is right, but she seems not where as downright stupid as this new herd of weirdos.
Not that i’d trade for apsychopath like Condi, because you can be sure that this new bevy of religious freeks, since no one would really put them in charge of anything Noneof them could drive a jeep.
Tim
Wait a minute, Palin wears glasses. The Holy Bible clearly states that none with a defect in their sight may enter the temple of God. Why does Sarah Palin hate God?
Charles J. Mueller
Come to think of it, Tim, Palin looks like an ad for Lenscrafters or Pearl Vison. lol
polobear
Well I repeat she needs to stay home and raise that brood…how selfish of her to spit them out and then go to work obviously the older daughter needed some attention.
Plus is it true she was part of a political party that want to cede Alaska from the union? is that patriotic?
villager
off topic, but who the fuck teaches these women to sit like this? is she listening or posing for a glamour shot? WTF?
Dan
This extreme right wing Evangelical nut is no different from an extremist Muslim – praying to mythology and hoping to lead believers to the promised land. Its God’s will after all. Its unimaginable that someone, anyone, would want this benighted rapture-believing yahoo as #2 in the “best country in the world”. Reason has abandoned this ignorant nation and America continues to show it deserves who it elects. The silver lining is that she doesn’t really have a hope in Hell of forming the next government.