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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
The AP reports the Palin quote as "Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
This quote starts in Palin's mid-sentence. The AP piece is a hatchet job and is intended to make Gov. Palin a scary religious nut.
Here's Palin's actual quote:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
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Even with the entire quote, I do not feel a bit less disturbed. Palin was not exhorting her audience to pray for insight and wisdom, to know whether or not the Iraq war is God's plan. No, she was exhorting them to pray that the Iraq war
is God's plan.
That, my friends, is the exhortations of
fanaticism.