Poopy Palin is God’s Mouthpiece…Seriously?

I’m just reading some quotes of the dubious choice of VP candidate, Sarah Palin, from a speech she gave last June to some ministry students of her former church. Wow. If I wasn’t scared of her because she’s totally unqualified for the job beyond the constitutional minimum, then this sort of mongering just scared the poop out of me.

“Our national leaders are sending them out [to Iraq] on a task that is from God…That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”

“God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that [natural] gas [pipe]line built, so pray for that.”

“I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded, but really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”

There are a lot of Evangelical and other right-wing Christians that don’t seem to understand this, but talk like this makes the rest of us very nervous: not because you might be talking to God, but because it’s more likely that you aren’t. If you are actually talking to God and God is actually tell you that he needs a consortium of people praying for a pipeline before he’ll allow one to be built, then fantastic. I think we’d be very comforted. But honestly, I think just about all of us think that you are invoking the name of God solely to push your own personal agenda. The only voice you’re hearing in your head is your own (it is just one voice, right?).

And even if we ignore that…how in the world is talking will-of-God about our unprovoked invasion of Iraq going to help the peace process? It sure sounds like crusade talk…and that is going to help nothing. If anything, it plays right into the hands of bn Laden and his lemmings. Honestly, it becomes more difficult to differentiate between the self-important spew between the two God-invoking sides.

Some will say that the fact that she was speaking to ministry students should give her a pass. If she were only talking religion, I wouldn’t mind. But she’s mixing politics and religion to those who are impressionable. While I have no problem with using personal faith to help inform a decision, regardless of whether I agree or not, I do object when God and politics are mixed as if it were gospel…especially to the young.

It scares me that so many politicians are pandering to this nefarious coalition of faith-think. If you aren’t a “christian”, or the right flavor of “christian”, then good luck trying to get elected in most of this country. It’s becoming more and more the same chance you would have if you weren’t muslim and tried to get elected in Iran.

Needless to say, I’m defintely not voting for a ticket that includes Ms Palin. I also won’t vote for a Poopy head that thinks she’s a good pick. Not that Obama is any prize; I’m not going to vote for him, either…but that rant will be another time.