This Is God's War?

Written by: Maurice Doubleday on Sep 12, 2008 8:31 AM EDT

“Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God..”

-Sarah Palin

There are so many holes in that sentence you could play Connect Four. But it does raise some questions in its rhetorical skeleton. This is truly a right wing argument straight from the play book. A certain synchronicity has been achieved here but not by Palin and McCain. More like Palin and the “enemy”. Zealots that are intent on God's mission and believe that jihad/war is justifiable and part of the Holy Plan.

This is scary on two levels: it shows that there is still a strong group of politicians who are dangerously hawkish and willing to use God as a sponsor, and it defies the separation of church and state by suggestion.

To indicate that somehow George Bush is in cooperation with a judaeo-christian manifest that allows the executive branch to violate the Constitution is the biggest puzzle to me. The McCain campaign is the “straight talk express”...what is more straight talk than the law and integrity? Within true secular government a leader wouldn't even dare to try an argument for war as God's work because God doesn't make wars. God doesn't teach at the public schools. When he did we had royalty! We had a revolution in the late 18th century to prevent people like Sarah Palin from feeling the need to inject their relationship with their God into the practicality of government and community. We declared our independence from a ruler who felt he represented God's wishes. To further prevent this from happening the forefathers wrote the Constitution. Fairly ambitious for heathen deists.

So when I see the quote above I just have to ask -- how is it Islamic extremists don't feel the urge to sue for plagiarism?

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