Here's a very short clip of Sarah Palin speaking to a church audience, asking them to pray for some Alaska pipeline deal. Watch:
Here's the key line:
"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."
I went to this site because a friend who is not a churchgoer told me about it, saying that she likes a lot about Palin, but this video freaked her out so much she couldn't possibly vote for her. So I went to take a look at it, and I don't see what the big deal is. This is not how I talk about God's sovereignty. But it's how a lot of ordinary people -- educated people -- in my part of the world talk. And I see nothing especially strange about it.
I asked another friend, a secular (libertarian) conservative from Dallas, to take a look at this video and tell me if he thought it was weird. He said, "It's not weird if you grew up around here, or if you go to church. Unless you go to a Unitarian church."
That's my view of it. Again, this kind of speech is not my thing, but it's well within the range of normal American cultural behavior.

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You know Pastor Steve, I was posting about Palin not you personally. Obviously you can't behave yourself as a true Christian should and turn the other check.
Actually Pastor Steve, I accepted Jesus into my heart since I was 13.
I disagree with the brainwashed, it's all or nothing attitude the new church preaches these days. Jesus warned about the big and modern day churches of the future, sticking their noses where they don't belong, mainly in Wars and Politics.
The hate in your heart for people who don't believe "your way" shows how you and your church believe in demonstrating plenty of petty judgments and non-christian acts under the guise of God's will.
Try not judging someone with a different view than yours for 24 hours. I bet you can't do because instead of having God's love in your heart you have embraced the evil forces that masquerade as you holier than thou attitude.
Jesus was once asked about who to pay taxes to, the Church or Rome. He asked for a coin. A coin was given to him. He said, the coin belonged to Rome so give it to Rome. Give what belongs to God to God.
Is it moral and ethical for a Christian to take Government jobs, paid by taxpayers money and give them away to personal buddies over qualified applicants. Palin thinks it's ok to favor friends over legal process.
According to the New York Times, Sept 13th, 2008 - PALIN GIVES HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS HIGH PAYING JOBS
"Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages."
Jesus was once asked about who to pay taxes to, the Church or Rome. He asked for a coin. A coin was given to him. He said, the coin belonged to Rome so give it to Rome. Give what belongs to God to God.
Is it moral and ethical for a Christian to take Government jobs, paid by taxpayers money and give them away to personal buddies over qualified applicants. Palin thinks it's ok to favor friends over legal process.
According to the New York Times, Sept 13th, 2008 - PALIN GIVES HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS HIGH PAYING JOBS
"Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages."
MCCAIN PARTIES WITH CATHOLIC CON MAN
According to magazine the Nation, September 2008, The photograph substantiates reports that in late August, 2006, McCain celebrated his 70th birthday aboard a yacht, the Celine Ashley, rented by A-list con man Raffaello Follieri and his then-movie star girlfriend Anne Hathaway. In the current edition of Vanity Fair, Michael Schnayerson reported that Follieri rented the Celine Ashley for the month of August 2006. Montenegro's leading daily
newspaper, Vijesti, earlier reported that during McCain's visit in 2006 he celebrated with birthday cocktails and sweets aboard the Celine Ashley yacht. In the photograph, taken in Montenegro at the end of August, McCain is shown boarding the yacht ramp towards the smiling Follieri and Hathaway. Just ahead of McCain and shaking hands with Follieri appears to be Rick Davis--McCain's top aide and now co-manager of his campaign, who accompanied him on the trip and advised the government of Montenegro. A few months after McCain's yacht party, Follieri strengthened his ties to McCain's orbit by retaining Rick Davis's well-connected Washington lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, and offering Davis both an investment deal and help in securing the Catholic vote for McCain's presidential bid.
Follieri, who posed as Vatican chief financial officer in order to win friends and investments, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. As part of the plea, Follieri admitted to misappropriating at least $2.4 million of investor money and redirecting it to foreign personal bank accounts that were disguised as business accounts.
At the time he met McCain, Follieri was adept at collecting friends in powerful places and using those connections to attract investments in projects which later turned out to be bogus. His ties to Bill Clinton and his entourage have been well-documented; the charismatic Follieri, whom Vanity Fair has likened to an ambitious nineteenth-century protagonist from a Balzac novel, ingratiated himself to President Clinton and aides by posing as a mega-donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He also formed an investment partnership with California business mogul and Clinton donor Ron Burkle to develop surplus real estate properties owned by the Catholic Church, which Follieri claimed to represent. Burkle later sued Follieri for $1.3 million in misappropriated funds.
Makes sense to me. GOD is always in the help and unity business--Think about it .......
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