Where to begin? Palin doesn't belong to a Pentecostal church now. When she did, we don't know if she spoke in tongues. And most important, Speaking in Tongues is a religious practice in which Christians feel the direct presence of the Holy Spirit. Is that really something to mock?
Did the Wa they run a cartoon ridiculing Joe Lieberman for thinking that God spoke through a burning Bush? Or Barack Obama for thinking that Jesus rose from the dead?
Here's a general rule of thumb: if you look closely, every religion's practices and beliefs seem idiotic to those who aren't part of that faith. Yet they're profoundly meaningful to those who believe.
Really best not to go there in a political campaign..
*I originally wrote Washington Post, but it was WashingtonPost.com and the more I thought about it the more I thought the main culprit is the cartoonist himself
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Give me a break. Palin is a wacko and so is her x-church.
oh this is hysterical!!!! i come from a charismatic christian background and i'm not offended in the slightest...people need to calm down and loosen up. it's a joke (based on truth, scarily enough) and whoever wrote this needs to take a serious chill pill.
"Speaking in Tongues is a religious practice in which Christians feel the direct presence of the Holy Spirit. Is that really something to mock?" ...uh, yes!!!
Confirming the ill effects of Palin rhetoric, we are seeing an increasing number of palinitis cases:
More and more people are complaining of symptoms like nausea, headache, irritability and dysphoria (as opposed to euphoria). The symptoms are reported to occur when these individuals are exposed to speeches and television appearances of Gov. Sarah Palin. Subsequently, the condition has been coined ‘Palinitis’.
Extended exposure to Gov. Palin’s voice and words causes more severe symptoms and has thus been named ‘palinitis gravis’. In addition to the aforementioned undesirable sensations and feelings, sufferers of the severe form of palinitis have reported ringing in the ears, loss of the ability to think coherently and talking ‘gibberish’, nightmares of turmoil and the downfall of ‘our great nation’.
Joe, the doctor
Beware of what you say ... "one day every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords."
It's really sad that people feel it's "OK" to mock God or his Children. When they can find nothing else wrong with them they attack God.
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