There’s a difference between believing in God and saying that you’ll run for office if he tells you to. I don’t have a problem with the latter but there are quite a few people who do.

amerpundit on November 13, 2008 at 6:13 PM

…good…then, we’re in agreement that the folks who get all itchy, get cold chills when someone mentions the Deity, are the ones with the problem…not Gov. Palin…or me…or the other Christian bloggers here, many of whom have enough of a sense of reality and proportion to see that Gov. Palin is saying, when she mentions The Eternal, that she is a person whose faith isn’t a Sundays-only thing….

…let’s not descend into marketing so much that we lose sight of our principles…Mr. Obama was a raging lefty during the primaries, a so-called “moderate” (whatever that is) during the general election, to the point that I’d challenge anyone here to tell me what, if anything, the man actually does believe….

…athiests, who are buying bus advertising in the DC area now with a “why believe in God” theme, say that they’re interjecting “reason” and “critical thinking” into the discussion…this is not only arrogant but fallacious….

…for one thing, religion isn’t the antithesis of “reason”, except when the few define “reason” or “critical thinking” as “not believing in anything beyond your own feeble powers of discernment”.

…for another, since when have these anti-spiritual “geniuses” ever been interested in a “discussion”…they usually content themselves with muddying up any intellectual exercise they enter, behaving like spoiled children, holding forth on how open-minded they are and how backwards everyone else is, all the while ready to stomp off at the first whiff of opposition.

…want a discussion? Have respect for your opposition, expecting that they might actually have a few good ideas…otherwise, it isn’t a discussion…it’s a lecture….

…or, if you will forgive me, a sermon….

Puritan1648 on November 13, 2008 at 6:27 PM

amerpundit on November 13, 2008 at 6:28 PM

…shake it off…it’s only virtual….

…frankly, all this talk of “Palin in 2012″ a tad premature…if she’s revelling in it, if she’s encouraging it, she needs to go back to Alaska and do the job she was elected to do…not having been elected to do anything else, that is….

…if she’s not, and it’s another case of either the MSM needing content for a 24-hour news cycle — which, with Obama spitting out potential constitutional outrage almost hourly, shouldn’t be an issue — or the MSM and their Democratic totalitarian friends trying to further widen cracks in a wounded party, let’s not rise to the bait….

…the last election cycle was what, 24 or so months long? Now, is the next one to be 48 months long? Is the MSM going to gin-up Sarah Palin to be the “inevitable candidate” a’ la Hillary Clinton…so’s they can see her knocked down in ‘12, again a’ la Hillary?

…let’s do something new for a change: let’s actually be conservative. By that, I don’t mean “let’s be fiscally responsible”, or “let’s advocate limited government and a strong defense”…no, let’s be wary, and not jump on every bandwagon that rolls through town….

…want to rebuild the party? Well…going to the base and not b*tch-slapping ‘em as was done by Mr. McCain and his enablers, with the ready help of the country-club, old-boy and ideological-purity sets. Remember what we’re supposed to stand for. If that means being “everything to every man”…well…I’d advocate giving that a miss….

…apropos to the discussion of religion/atheism (into which I plunged with both muddy feet), I think that it was Chesterton who said that the problem with atheism isn’t that you believe in nothing, but that you’ll believe in anything….

…so, think of that in a social and political context: if you don’t have a firm grip on what you believe and why you believe it, you’re not riding into battle in shining armor, armed with Excalibur, and mounted on a great grey steed. You’re riding into the next electoral battle — which I can promise the Democrats, now drunk on their own achievement, will treat as a fight to the death — clad in cardboard, armed with a feather, and mounted on a greased pig….

…and, amerpundit, I hope that didn’t take it too personally…I earlier replied to one of your posts because your post encapsulated, in the shortest, most direct terms, what I wanted to reply to….

…sort of used you as a straight man…not very polite, I suppose…such is the blogosphere…such is life….

Puritan1648 on November 13, 2008 at 6:47 PM