Baraka_Guru

That's old news, friend.

Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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I think ultimately the danger with the Neocon approach to this sort of thing is that they tend to gloss over their moral imperative through this sort of pseudo-religious interpretation of what a nation's leader is meant to do in the face of danger. It is an old-fashioned posturing. A kind that I would imagine was performed by leaders from the pre-Modern period. It's misleading and is meant to garner the support from the less sophisticated or ignorant listener.

No one in their right mind (both religious and non-religious) sees this kind of thing and thinks, Hey, yeah, God [or some ambiguous moral authority] does want us, America, to carry out these things against our enemies. Bullshit. Even from a religious point of view this is tragically Old Testament.

It's deplorable that any politician from a nation as wealthy, influential, and powerful as the U.S. would use this kind of language in public, especially when it's intentional and directed. This is outright manipulative and one of the worst kinds of rhetoric.

Then there's that pesky separation of church and state issue....

I'm not saying this Palin issue from the OP is a major problem, but what is a problem is that we need to be keeping tabs on what is being said in public to the public when it comes to this sort of thing. America is still a very religious nation.

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