SubscribeThe Horror - NYT Says Palin Is A Christian!
Do you remember all the articles in the New York Times about Mr. Obama’s white-hating, black liberation Christianity?
We don’t either.
And yet we have these shocking revelations from those defenders of any faith but Christianity at the New York Times:
In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will
By KIRK JOHNSON and KIM SEVERSON
September 6, 2008
WASILLA, Alaska — Shortly after taking office as governor in 2006, Sarah Palin sent an e-mail message to Paul E. Riley, her former pastor in the Assembly of God Church, which her family began attending when she was a youth. She needed spiritual advice in how to do her new job, said Mr. Riley, who is 78 and retired from the church.
“She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,” Mr. Riley said.
He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king’s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.
Mr. Riley said he thought Ms. Palin had lived out the advice as governor, and would now do so again as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee.
“God has given her the opportunity to serve,” he said. “And God has given her the strength to carry out her goals.”
Ms. Palin’s religious life — what she believes and how her beliefs intersect or not with her life in public office in Alaska — has become a topic of intense interest and scrutiny across the political spectrum as she has risen from relative obscurity to become Senator John McCain’s running mate.
Interviews with the two pastors she has been most closely associated with here in her hometown — she now attends the Wasilla Bible Church, though she keeps in touch with Mr. Riley and recently spoke at an event at his former church — and with friends and acquaintances who have worshipped with her point to a firm conclusion: her foundation and source of guidance is the Bible, and with it has come a conviction to be God’s servant.
“Just be amazed at the umbrella of this church here, where God is going to send you from this church,” Ms. Palin told the gathering in June of young graduates of a ministry program at the Assembly of God Church, a video of which has been posted on YouTube.
“Believe me,” she said, “I know what I am saying — where God has sent me, from underneath the umbrella of this church, throughout the state.”
Janet Kincaid, who has known Ms. Palin for about 15 years and worked with her on some Wasilla town boards and commissions when Ms. Palin was mayor here, said Ms. Palin’s spiritual path, from the Assembly of God to Wasilla Bible, has had a consistent theme.
“The churches that Sarah has attended all believe in a literal translation of the Bible,” Ms. Kincaid said. “Her principal ethical and moral beliefs stem from this.”
Prayer, and belief in its power, is another constant theme, Ms. Kincaid said, in what she has witnessed in Ms. Palin. “Her beliefs are firm in the power of prayer — let’s put it that way,” she said…
In the address at the Assembly of God Church here, Ms. Palin’s ease in talking about the intersection of faith and public life was clear. Among other things, she encouraged the group of young church leaders to pray that “God’s will” be done in bringing about the construction of a big pipeline in the state, and suggested her work as governor would be hampered “if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”
She also told the group that her eldest child, Track, would soon be deployed by the Army to Iraq, and that they should pray “that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.” …
One of the musical directors at the church, Adele Morgan, who has known Ms. Palin since the third grade, said the Palins moved to the nondenominational Wasilla Bible Church in 2002, in part because its ministry is less “extreme” than Pentecostal churches like the Assemblies of God, which practice speaking in tongues and miraculous healings.
“A lot of churches are about music and media and having a big profile,” Ms. Morgan said. “We are against that. That is why it is so attractive to politicians because they can just sit there and be safe.” …
Mr. Kroon (pronounced krone), a soft-spoken, bearded Alaska native, said he was convinced that the Bible is the Word of God, and that the task of believers is to ponder and analyze the book for meaning — including scrutiny, he said, for errors and mistranslations over the centuries that may have obscured the original intent…
Mr. Kroon said the Alaskan spirit of go-it-alone individuality gives the church a mix of joiners and resolute nonjoiners. The church offers full-immersion water baptism, which some people want and others do not.
“I have people who’ve been here since I got here, and they still say, ‘Don’t put me on the membership roll,’ ” he said. “There’s definitely a cultural element.”
Can’t you just feel the outrage?
Ms. Palin’s religious life — what she believes and how her beliefs intersect or not with her life in public office in Alaska — has become a topic of intense interest and scrutiny across the political spectrum as she has risen from relative obscurity to become Senator John McCain’s running mate.
But see how outrageous she is for herself:
Meanwhile, these selfsame Solons at The Times did their very best to (ahem) whitewash Obama’s racist, Afro-centric, America-hating church when he rose from complete obscurity to become the Democrat’s candidate for President.
No “scrutiny” was allowed. We were assured by his campaign and their minions in the media that Mr. Obama was a “committed Christian” and that was that.
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Of course we had our doubts. Since nothing is as frightening to the New York Times and our one party media as is a mainstream Christian believer. It shakes them right down to their Muslim-rooting roots.
So, to our mind, the media’s imprimatur just helps to put the lie to Mr. Obama’s assiduous claims about his deep-rooted Christian beliefs. (Learned exclusively at the knee of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.)
It’s stories like this one from the New York Times that show us exactly what the media think of those weird people who actually are practicing Christians.
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September 6th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I ordered my ‘I’m voting for what’s his name and Sarah Palin’ t-shirt this morning. I too believe in and have a deep abiding faith in God - and consider myself a Christian. The First Amendment guarantees the Freedom of Religion, not freedom from religion.
Which leads me to an interesting question no one has asked Mr. Obama re: his TUCC time? How does he consider it Christian at all to sit in a church for 20 years and listen to a man bad mouth, insult, lie and denounce half of his genetic/ancestral being? And exactly why did he expose his children to the same denouncing of a quarter of their genetic/ancestral being?
Any thoughtful, family-oriented person who really truly did believe in Jesus, salvation and God would not ever do it - for any reason what-so-ever. Or he is utterly insane.
I know AoG from my days in KY - a more decent group of people I’ve never met - I guess I should have gone to their church - maybe I’d be further along on my journey of faith.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Wow. Where to begin…
Allow me to translate: “In our effort to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin, we couldn’t find anything. However, a church that she does not belong to is part of a denomination that practices speaking in tongues and miraculous healings, whether or not anyone at the church in question ever has.
What a doofus! Who could convince himself of such a thing? We all know that the Bible is just a Hebrew and Greek version of Mein Kampf.
If only they portrayed Mohammedans who believe that the Koran is the word of Allah with so much skepticism…
September 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
So if I get the drift, it’s “NOT GOD DAMN AMERICA!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!”
What’s next, pro life?
September 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
So if I get the drift, it’s “NOT GOD DAMN AMERICA!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!”
Which brings us to a reposting of this you-tube clip, which I watch frequently and absolutely love:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Warning: Not for people who dislike:
A) Beautiful, green-eyed, red-headed women with powerful singing voices
B) America
C) God
September 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
DW; …..”Warning: Not for people who dislike:
A) Beautiful, green-eyed, red-headed women with powerful singing voices
B) America
C) God
Stirring! I’ve never seen this before. What was the occasion of this performance.
You know, now I’ll have to go out and buy a whole bunch more of her CD’s. ;-}
September 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
John - All I know it that it was recorded live in January 2002 (where’s the snow???).
Beyond that, I don’t know.
Incredible voice eh?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I grew up in a series of churches that had articles of faith very similar to the Assemblies of God.
If someone is doubting someone’s leadership ability because they have a presumption of faith and hope in divine providence, then maybe: they have never walked in the valley of the shadow of death, or they have never faced unsurmountable difficulty, or they have never held and wondered at the miracle of a new baby.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I’m anti-religion and yet, I’d rather have a glassy-eyed christian than a marxist as President anyday.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
DW; ….”Incredible voice eh?….”
I guess I’m just an incurable patriot, but the tune and the delivery leave me proudly humble. If that sounds contradictory, well…..maybe somebody else can explain it. I just know what I feel.
And yes, incredible voice and poise!
September 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I know what you mean, John.
And yeah, I have to (grudgingly) admit that you guys have it all over the rest of the world when it comes to stirring tunes (and people that can deliver them).
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Wt4XlXUrc
(this one gets posted here alot -always well worth the 3 minutes of your time though)
September 6th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I totally hate that leaflet of OB. He is standing in the church in Selma where he gave his Joshua Generation speech in 2007 to remember the civil rights movement. He stood there in front of that cross lying his head off about his father’s family history and his father’s own history of coming to the US to go to school and how the Kennedys were involved and how Selma contributed to a little Barack being born about 4 years before it actually happened! And they all sat there lapping it up and cheering him on. And then whoever put that piece of trash together quotes him as “doing the Lord’s work’! If the Lord still did things the way He did in the book of Acts, they would have been carrying him out in a bodybag.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
“Ms. Palin’s religious life….. has become a topic of intense interest and scrutiny across the political spectrum as she has risen from relative obscurity…..”
yet obama was so well known by the American electorate prior to 2007 that his religious life (and that of his pastor) were not even considered by the mainstream media.
DW–
I love both the youtube clips you posted. Martina McBride was fantastic when I saw her in Boise a couple years ago. I’ve been a fan of Ray Charles since I was a kid. I always wanted to here him sing “Desparado”. it’s hard to imagine anyone doing a better job than the Eagles, but I bet his version would have smoked!
September 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Here is an e-mail my mom had sent to her, I think we should all send this woman and her ilk a note pointing out the truth to counter these half baked lies.
Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters,
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce—on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate that has a real possibility of becoming fact.
Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet. We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin’s political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we’ve so demonstrably benefited from.
First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.*
Therefore, we invite you to reply here womensaynopalin@gmail.com with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.*
Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.
We will post your responses on a blog called “Women Against Sarah Palin,” which we intend to publicize as widely as possible. Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience—the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.
Thank you for your time and action.
Sincerely,
Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston New York, NY
womensaynopalin@gmail.com
September 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Quinn Latimer sounds like she has her finger on the pulse of American womenhood:
And yes, the KGB bar is exactly what it sounds like:
http://tinyurl.com/5zfkbs
September 10th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I can clearly see by the brochure that his church is holier than her church. After all, they have the nicer big organ and carpet in his church.
Remember, it is not politically correct to be a Fundamentalist Christian, as they cling to religion and guns.
You know, for a man of half European White, one quarter African Arabic and one-quarter African Black ancestry, he sure downplays a good three quarters of his genetic background.
Why is he so ashamed of being three-quarters Caucasian? Is he that afraid that he will wake up and become Satan some morning?
Since when is it wrong or evil to be White?