From "Hockey Mom" to "Your Heavenly Father"

"Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father."

That's how Sarah Palin signed an e-mail announcing her son's birth. She wrote it to help her friends make sense of "this mixed-up world you live in down there on Earth."

In case your brain is having trouble processing this before your morning caffeine: Sarah Palin writes e-mails in the voice of God.

And Obama is presumptuous?

Obama caught flack from the religious right, or whatever they're calling themselves these days, for saying that the question of when life begins is "above my pay grade." Yesterday he was obliged to apologize for being "flip," adding, "All I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions."

And Obama calls himself a Christian?! Show me where in the Bible it says, "How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, who has been his counselor?" Real Christians like Sarah Palin and George Bush not only know the mind of the Lord, they speak in his voice.

Robert McElvaine calls these people Jesus thieves. But few have been quite as brazen about it as Sarah "Your Heavenly Father" Palin.

The MSM continues to perpetuate the entirely GOP-invented meme about the Temple of Obama. Let's see if an actual e-mail from a candidate who thinks she is God gets remotely similar traction.

Daniel Radosh is the author Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture

Comments

[jannike]

This woman is very dangerous.

[faust2001]

"Let's see if an actual e-mail from a candidate who thinks she is God gets remotely similar traction."
Let me think about that for a second...u­m, no.

[kellygrrrl]

G*d Help Us!!!!!! pleeze

[vikingv]

McCain said he wants a fight. The end of his speech was one long repeat of the word Fight and the crowd rose to it's feet with a cheering crescendo. McCain is using the tactics that worked for Bush and Rove. And McCain is succeeding. The smell of blood is in the air.

Republicans of the Fanatical Religious persuasion love the idea of war, love the idea of fighting, love the idea of self-righteous war for the Lord. It will succeed, just like Al Qaeda and Taliban ideology is sweeping the Muslim world.

I suggest you know your enemy and not under estimate the power of Religion. It is the most powerful force on the face of the earth. It has no right or wrong, only allegiance to the Lord God Almighty.

Take McCain's new found Radical Religious Faith-Based War seriously. McCain is a warrior first and foremost. It is in his blood, two Admiral father figures. He loves it, he grew up with it, he went to school for it and mostly tellingly, he fought and suffered as a true warrior himself.

[emcd]

Sarah Palin and the people who favor her candidacy go to churches that believe that ordinary churchgoers can speak in tongues, which is basically channeling the word of God through ordinary people.

So basically your entire argument would be seen as a big positive, from what I can tell?

Any evangelicals, or ex-evangelicals, out there? Can you shed more light as to how this will be looked at by them?

The question is, even if the MSM brought this issue to light, what would non-evangelical voters think of it? I'm a Lutheran-raised, atheist middle aged woman -- and this just reeks of cult and craziness!!! What happened to my country? I want it back!

[prestodan]

I'm sorry, but there are too many questions about two Palin pregnancies that have not been adequately answered, and I remain unconvinced Trig is Sarah Palin's baby. I am not one given to conspiracy theories, but all of the circumstances surrounding the current pregnancy of Bristol Palin, and the "one month pregnancy" of the Gov. Sarah Palin raise many questions. Obama has had to answer questions that seemed rude to probe. He posted his own birth certificate on his website to respond to questions about his own birth. Until I see more facts, I will remain skeptical of how of the these two related stories have been presented to the media.

[demfriend]

Palin's church is full of extremist views about God and could do a much more scary reality show than anything the republicans and Hillary has put together to manipulate the views of Wright. Wright is closer to being a rep for God than I would believe Palin and her church could ever be. That Palin has a special needs child and cut money for the progams for such children and also has a unwed teenage mother in her home and also cut money for those programs too makes me wonder what reality she live in. Also Palin would lov to have women using the back alley "doctors" again and take every single right women have fought for away without a problem. I for one do not ever want to watch another child of mine to suffer through 3 years of seizures and pain before dying and to prevent that happening I would want a doctor and process sensitive to this belief available to me and not Palin making the choices for me.

[aflyinyoursoup]

"Absolutel­y...yup...­yup" ...She's ready to be GOD, alright!
And when she and the "war lord" are elected, this is what we can expect:

1) A religious civil war orchestrated from the oval office.
2) An expansion of U. S. (corporate) imperialism.
3) An expansion of global U. S. militarism.
4) The return of the draft.
5) The "corporatization" of all government functions.
6) The high probability of an all-out global war.

But I'ts okay, because that will be "what God wants"

[PATina]

Of course she's allowed to think she's God... she's a Republican for heavens' sake (pun intended) !!!!!!!

[CitizenE]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!