Has The Palinization Of Santorum Begun?
Please reference my posting of yesterday, Satan, Laughing, Spreads His Wings, for background.
Sarah Palin on Hannity last night:
"They will attack any conservatives who boldly proclaims their faith and talks about there is good in the world and there’s evil in the world and that’s what Rick Santorum was talking about. And this was a speech that he gave back in 2008 where he named evil as Satan. And for these lame-stream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that, first you have to ask yourself, ‘Have they every attended a Sunday school class even? Have they never heard of this terminology before?" And that’s why they got so, you know, just whacked out about the speech," Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity on FOX News tonight.
"Sean, I gave a speech back in 2008 where I asked college and high school students if they would pray for our troops and pray for our efforts overseas in war zones and they ran that tape over and over again in the Vice Presidential race trying to make me sound like a whacko talking about good and evil in our world."
Real Clear Politics has the video of her remarks here.
One of the most frustrating things that one has to endure in Modern America is the contempt exhibited by great swarths of the population when religious belief is expressed.
Now look, I get irritated when some Bible-thumper constantly throws his love of Jeee-sus! in my face – throughout history such zealouts have always annoyed – because it seems more boast than belief*, but we now live in an age where simple expressions of belief are ridiculed and mocked, expressions that for centuries were a part of every day life, were thought normal in a Culture that believed in God.
The sarcasm that barely hides a childish contempt for those who have faith is just more proof, to me, that we have become an immature society.
Belief in a Transcendent Order is not foolish, nor juvenile, nor a sign that someone is simple or stupid.
In fact, such a belief shows a sophistication of understanding of the world, that ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy’, as it were.
And, as wise men such as John Adams, George Washington, and Russell Kirk have pointed out: no free society can endure unless it’s people remain religious.
The Leftist cancer has eaten away at so many of our souls and caused so many of us to revert back to our primitive selves. It has nurtured a hatred for faith in God because He is a rival to it for power over Man.
One of the key victories the Left has achieved is in getting many of us to no longer believe in Satan, in the active presence of Evil in the world. As Charles Baudelaire once wrote: ‘The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist’. If one does not believe in Evil as an active force at work in the world, one can be persuaded that any action is acceptable, as we have seen throughout the 20th Century and continue to see all across the world..
Modern Americans need to grow-up.
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*To be fair to some of those who ‘throw their love of Jesus
in your face’, I suspect that some do so in reaction to the
constant calumnies that are hurled against them for
professing their beliefs, so I think their reaction is understandable.
What a bunch or religious nonsense. If the Christian Right had it’s way, this country would be a theocracy. Religiosity leads to intolerance.
You’re quite the crashing bore.
It’s fabulous how spiritually minded Americans are silent no more!
That they have been for sixty-plus years is the anomaly.