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• Thursday, September 11, 2008 05:58 AM

  Reason or supersition; you choose

  I have known many Pentecostals over the years and some of them have been fine outstanding people who would literally take the shirts off their backs to help you. But supporting someone like Sarah Palin isn’t about backing kind and generous leaders. This is about putting a candidate in office that has the intellectual judgment to be able to handle an international crisis without being biased by a book that is a 2000 year old political tract written by ignorant, power hungry desert tribes. Being enamored by the trite bromides provided in the Bible is one thing but taking this book as the literal word of god and being willing to help shape history by being an accomplice to ushering in these silly and childish so called ‘prophecies’ is something else completely.

  Screw the controversy over wolf killing (a particularly sensitive issue with me), her so called feminism or all the other crap that is coming out over her nomination as the Republican VP. There is only one thing that really matters here and that is Palin’s medieval worldview. There is no way to genuinely believe in this kind of trash and then not end up use policy as a means to help bring this ‘end time’ malarkey to fruition.

  If American’s keep putting these evangelicals in office with their puerile vision of the ‘rapture’ and the ‘tribulation’ we will end up with an apocalypse that will make the bible’s look like a picnic. And it will have nothing to do with fulfilling biblical prophesy; just our own stupidity and a just reward for siding with ignorance and superstition over reason and intelligence.

  —Chad Bagley Read Chad Bagley's other letters
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