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There's fundraising for indicted senator Ted
Stevens' 547, not actually knowing "what the
VP does all day", her affiliation with the
secessionist Alaska Independence Party,
earmarks after earmarks for her small town
projects, zero international experience,
Troopergate, Babygate, Dairygate, Bridgegate,
Toddgate, and now.....Churchgate.
I did a drive-by of Palin's church when I was
traveling through Wasilla yesterday, not
realizing the furor that would be churning
the blogosphere less than 24-hours later
about a speech Palin delivered there only
three months ago. Here's what she said
regarding the war in Iraq.
"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."
Let that sink in a minute. A task that is
from God. Sarah's war is a holy war. It's
not, apparently from the God that says "turn
the other cheek" or "I am my brother's
keeper" or "the greatest of all these is
love". It's not about diplomacy,
international relations, figuring out why we
are so despised in the Middle East, keeping
Israel secure, revamping how the U.S. deals
with its unsustainable dependence on foreign
oil, combating poverty and desperation that
leads young men to terrorism. Nope. This war
is God's will. It's God's holy war. She went
on:
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.
So the plan is to pray for a plan? Perhaps it
would have been better to pray for a plan
beFORE we went to Iraq. Better still to sit
down and create a plan - a thoughtful,
intelligent, human-type plan.
Knowing that Palin has only been out of the
country once, in 2007, to visit the Alaska
Guard in Kuwait, we rightfully wonder what
might influence her international policy. How
will her decisions be made? What is her style
of governance? Well, folks, this might just
be it. Pray for a plan and hope it's the
right one.
Beyond that one speech she made in June, what
else do we know about Palin's church? Good
question. Anchroage residents, who comprise
the vast majority of the population in this
region of Alaska, know that Wasilla is the
heart of Alaska's Valley Bible Belt. This is
evidenced by the dozens and dozens of
roadside churches, the Christian schools and
bookstores, and how many people are wearing
crosses in the local supermarket. But I, and
most others I know really don't know much
more than that. This is from Ed Kalnins, the
senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God.
Palin attended here for most of her adult
life, until her new affiliation with a
similar church in the state's capitol,
Juneau:
What you see in a terrorist — that's called
the invisible enemy. There has always been an
invisible enemy. What you see in Iraq,
basically, is a manifestation of what's going
on in this unseen world called the spirit
world. ... We need to think like Jesus
thinks. We are in a time and a season of war,
and we need to think like that. We need to
develop that instinct. We need to develop as
believers the instinct that we are at war,
and that war is contending for your faith.
... Jesus called us to die. You're worried
about getting hurt? He's called us to die.
Listen, you know we can't even follow him
unless you are willing to give up your life.
... I believe that Jesus himself operated
from that position of war mode. Everyone say
"war mode." Now you say, wait a minute Ed,
he's like the good shepherd, he's loving all
the time and he's kind all the time. Oh yes
he is — but I also believe that he had a
part of his thoughts that knew that he was in
a war.
How will the Republican party and the pundits
handle Palin's "Reverend Wright Moment"? Did
McCain vet her on matters of her religious
ties, knowing how devastating the impact of
his church selection turned out to be for
Obama? You'd think. But maybe McCain knew all
along, and thought it was no big deal. Which
scenario is more sobering? And how do
non-Christians in the rest of the country and
in Alaska feel about the "end times"
philosophy of this church?
Is this one more step toward the End Times of
the McCain-Palin ticket? Let us pray.
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