None of your "documentation" supports your utterly silly notion that the US can destroy all life on Earth

30,000 bombs (your number) up to 100 megatons (5,000 times bigger than 20 kilotons) is an explosive yield up to 150,000,000 times greater than the bomb used to take out Hiroshima, a medium-size city (which you think was faked anyway).

How much would be enough, neocon?

The point is, Palin could start up Armageddon with a lot less than that, couldn't she?

Why don't you go ask Joe Biden about transubstantiation...

Those crazy Catholics and their Eucharistic silliness.

Geez, what will those loony Christians come up with next? I'll bet they even think that a guy die once and came back to life three days later...

And maybe that guy was a sacrifice for their sins...

...straight from God, no doubt.

And I'll bet those wacky Muslims believe that a guy named Mohammed could talk to God.

And the Jews...oh, don't get me started on the Jews...

I grew up as a member of an AG church (one of the ones called a "Christian Center") and spent K-10th grade in the school associated with that church. They believe some pretty terrifying stuff (speaking in tongues, faith healing, end times, etc. etc.). Most people I know who were indoctrinated in that stuff the whole time they were growing up are either atheists (like me) or still fully believe everything they are taught; it's hard to have a nuanced viewpoint after an experience like that.

I still think that the scariest thing about her is that she seems to have abused her power in every office she's held - why in heavens name would you want to give a petty despot real power? But the final gloss on this is that she has used power to promote a radical religous right agenda, (e.g. firing librarians who opposed book-banning). Imagine the accountable-to-no one attitude seen in the Gonzales AG firing scandals with a John Ashcroft morality-police twist. (Ashcroft is an AG church member). NFW.

What is a GoDot?

Galactically Obstreperous Department of Thick-wittedness?

Of couldn't you spell BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) in your signature?

You can't mimic the MSM and be a serious thinker.

Wait for the proof rather than the left-wing blogs.

If she is proven to be a whacko, it will come out. If not, you have just shown why critical thinking is so important.

If she is proven to be a whacko, it will come out.

The fact is, it's already been done.

Try to keep up.

Xanthro

Godot, you are pretty dumb

You're the one who claimed the biggest available nukes - now going up to 100-megatons - couldn't take out a medium-sized city, when the bomb that took out Hiroshima was only 20 kilotons a tiny nuke by modern standards.

There has never been a 100 megaton warhead actually made or tested. It is believed that Tzar Bomba with a different triggering mechanism could have possible reached this yield.

Currently, there are no weapons with a yield great than 15 megatons.

The largest device actually ever made, had a fireball blast of less that 3km. Hardly enough to obliterate a medium sized city.

Hiroshima was hardly taken out, about 1 in 4 people died, and that includes a four month post bombing period where people died from lack of health care access. Sure, most buildings were damage, estimates up to 90%, but the actual death percentage is much lower than is in the popular mind.

You are going by the myths in the popular imagination, which is simply incorrect.

If you want to be humiliated in detail, just ask.

-- Godot...

Detail is not your strong suit. It's obvious, you are hardly familiar with the subject matter, much less the history behind it.

Your fellow neocon Xanthro thinks a ton is less than a pound.

Shouldn't you guys be suing your bible schools for making you stupid?

I was extremely discouraged by this article. I am a 25 year old supporter of Barrack Obama and I am intensely skeptical about Sarah Palin. However I found little insight or value in this article.

For the author to take Palin's comments and twist them into a claim that she has a "deterministic view of God's will" was unfair. It seems obvious to me that she was saying she hoped that what political leaders were doing aligned with "God's will" but never implied that leaders were, or should be, given any sort of divine guidance.

As for the laundry list of the Assembly of God's strange beliefs, I would imagine one could come up with a similar list about any church any of the candidates belong to.

I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt in regards to Rev. Wright's comments because I realize that attending a church does not imply a parishioners belief in or support of everything which is said and done there. Why should Palin be given any less benefit of the doubt?

I realize she has opened herself up to some degree scrutiny because she has not come forward more openly to the media, but there are plenty of good ways to illustrate the fact that she would be a very disconcerting presence in the Oval Office without resorting to the kind of innuendo and guilt by association tactics practiced by less reputable media outlets than this one.

You still making up crap to fit your lying propaganda, neocon, because the facts show you to be a liar and an idiot, 26 ways so far.

You couldn't refute any of them.

A pound is less than a ton. Were you aware of that?

I'm confused - am I mimicking the MSM or the left wing blogs? There is a difference, contrary to your "anti-contrarian" views.

If I were not a "critical thinker", I would still be happily going to that church, believing that the earth was 5000 years old and that end times were near, and relying entirely on faith instead of free will.

I am from Montana and remember the presence of this church since my childhood. They also have evolved, here, in recent years. They have had great increases in membership. They are a church that recruits without entirely revealing who they actually are.

They have built a very large, cement, center with new music and screen technology.

The church offers the building to the community, often. People end up there for a public performance and then are approached about joining. The pursuit is intense.

My main point is to say that i am quite certain that when i was young, some fifty years ago, they were known as , "The Holy Rollers." I can't remember if they called themselves by that name.

Everyone in town did, indeed, refer to them as the Holy Rollers.