Preaching in her new pulpit on Fox News, Sarah Palin is plainly unhappy with people she claims are drawing America away from God and a Christian nation. "Go back to what our founders and founding documents meant - they're quite clear -that we should create law based on the God of the Bible and the ten commandments." As one whose six-figure contract for a speaking engagement at California State University in Turlock includes first class airfare, luxury hotel and bottled water with bendable straws, shouldn't the forever self-absorbed Palin be reminded that there's also a line in the Bible from the sermon on the mount that says the "meek shall inherit the earth"?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Palin, never meek, calls for a Christian nation
Preaching in her new pulpit on Fox News, Sarah Palin is plainly unhappy with people she claims are drawing America away from God and a Christian nation. "Go back to what our founders and founding documents meant - they're quite clear -that we should create law based on the God of the Bible and the ten commandments." As one whose six-figure contract for a speaking engagement at California State University in Turlock includes first class airfare, luxury hotel and bottled water with bendable straws, shouldn't the forever self-absorbed Palin be reminded that there's also a line in the Bible from the sermon on the mount that says the "meek shall inherit the earth"?
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This seems to fit perfectly into the narrative started by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint in his roundabout call for an American christian theocracy. Next, expect Oklahoma Senate arch-conservatives Tom Coburn and James Inhofe to voice support.
Apparently the Founding Fathers never read 1 Samuel, 15:23 "For rebellion as is the sin of witchcraft."
Palin is one of many who burnish the narrative that the Founding Fathers were Christians. Maybe she reads the Bible (and its a big maybe) but she clearly does not read history. Jefferson, for instance, read the Bible only to identify which verses agreed with Enlightenment Deism. It's not clear that other Fathers read the Bible, but they surely read Enlightenment philosophers.
I'm sure you also will recall that Jefferson put out his own Reader's Digest of the bible, eliminating all segments that he believed were extraneous!
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