| Re: Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Church of God |
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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: Boston Blackie (happily ignored by KD the Merciless!)Boston Blackie (happily ignored by KD the Merciless!) Date: Sep 12, 2008 02:41
On 2008-09-12 01:31:18 -0500, Doug Smith W9WI said:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:04:09 -0500, Boston Blackie wrote:
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>> "Let's begin with you, Fred Clarkson. What are you most concerned about
>> in Governor Palin's views?
>>
>> "FREDERICK CLARKSON: Well, I'm most concerned with the point that you
>> raised earlier, and that is her well-documented belief that she's
>> living in the "end times," we're all living in the "end times," and
>> that her interpretation of the Book of Revelation may be driving her
>> public policy and particularly her foreign and military policy views.
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> Y'know, as a Christian this kind of thing bothers the heck out of me.
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> How can someone who claims to believe in God actually think they can
> **manipulate God** into doing something when humans want it to happen,
> rather than on His schedule?
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> Isn't it awfully selfish to try to manipulate God into moving up the
> Second Coming? (and condemning to Hell those who might have been
> converted between when the manipulators would succeed and when God would
> have returned otherwise)
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> It simply doesn't jibe with the theology, or the Bible, I learned...
nor mine. I also wonder about the efficacy of asking God to insure
that a natural gas line is built in Alaska, but then I wasn't raised AG.
--
"There will be some gangsta types who will take to the streets if Obama
wins and will try to intimidate any and all of the white folks they
meet. "
- [Beloved] Master Kent, Fear Monger for the Extreme Right
"If Obama/Biden wins, the country may dissolve in the race war that
both Farrakhan and the KKK have been stoking for decades."
- [Beloved] Master Kent, Racist Fear Monger for the Extreme Right. 8-30-08
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