A Letter to Sarah Palin from God
NOTE: The following words occurred to me, seemingly out of nowhere, in the innermost recesses of the mind of my brain. I can only conclude that they came from God. I present them, therefore, not as a "writer" but as a medium, a messenger transmitting the divine text and converting it, as best I can, from a mode of pure thought into the publicly-accessible form of the written word. E.W.
Dear Sarah:
I would ask, "How are you, child?" but for two things. One, who knows better than I, Who Am That I Am, how you are? And two, my purpose in communicating with you here is not to ask how you are, but to tell you how you are.
You are a disappointment to Me, Sarah.
You seem to think, as do many of your co-religionists, that what you profess to believe -- and, indeed, what you may actually in fact believe -- is more important than what you do. You seem to be under the impression that advertising an ardent belief in Me (or Us, if you prefer) absolves you of any responsibility to act in accordance with what you know -- or, at least, what you should know -- constitute My values and precepts.
The list of your transgressions is extensive, and includes:
- That, while you know full well My admonition to Love Thy Neighbor, you spread calumny and derision about half of the population, presuming to declare who is and who is not "the real America."
- That, while you are fully aware of My Commandment forbidding you to bear false witness, you utter lies and deceptions on a routine basis, verily, you seem unable to speak publicly without lying. You have lied about opposing the Bridge to Nowhere; you have lied about firing the librarian and police chief of Wasilla; you have lied about your previous statements regarding climate change; you have lied about Alaska's contribution to your nation's oil and gas production; you have lied about Barack Obama's position regarding habeas corpus; you have lied about your use of a TelePrompter at the Republican convention; and in manifold other ways have you lied, and lied, and lied.
- That, while you are entirely acquainted with My intention to bestow upon Man dominion over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, yet you play fast and loose and get cute with, and otherwise wink at, the danger posed to all living creatures (including Man) by climate change; and you profess to be unsure as to whether these perils are caused by Man, while all reputable study affirms this analysis beyond dispute.
- That, while you are surely acquainted with My Son's admonition that you "beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye," yet you persist in criticizing Obama's (modest, progressive) taxation plans as constituting "socialism," and abjure it as an evil, whilst never acknowledging that your own Republican Party put in place laws that have resulted in the most egregiously "socialistic" takeover of the nation's banks in history; moreover, your own state of Alaska--particularly under your administration--is the most socialist of all the fifty states, in its collective taxing of the oil industry and its distribution, to every man, woman, and child in the state, a check upwards of three (3) grand each year.
- That, while you proudly profess to believe in "freedom," you have lately complained that if newspapers criticize you for "negative campaigning," they are abridging your First Amendment rights under the Constitution--as though "freedom" means only your ability to say anything that enters in unto your head (regardless of how baseless or slanderous) but does not apply to the press.
Of the sheer stupidity of this last assertion I, Who Am Eternal, shall say nothing, for I love all my creations, regardless of how ignorant, unsophisticated, or just plain dumb. Similarly, I will pass over your inability to answer the simplest question in a coherent sentence, your meanness of spirit, and the great selfishness and want of taste you display in subjecting your poor children to the travails, exhaustion, and abuse of a national presidential campaign.
Rather, Sarah, it is your hypocrisy and mendaciousness that mightily offend Me. I am, as you know, a just and compassionate God. But even I (blessed be Me and blessed be My Name) have a limit to My patience. Thus, I find not only that you are unqualified to be Vice-President of the United States. I find that you are a human person deficient in those basic qualities (honesty, decency, compassion, modesty, personal integrity, a respect for knowledge, and a concern for truth) that are pleasing unto Me and which ought to constitute the character of the righteous woman.
You are not just a bad candidate. You are a bad person. I only hope you will awaken to this fact, acknowledge the error of your ways, and take steps to atone for these transgressions before the Day of Judgment, when I shall be forced to render a decision concerning your eternal fate.
Yours in Me, etc.,
God
cc. Jesus Christ
Crossposted at What HE Said.
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Ellis,
That was great reading.
I have a piece on Palin examining her behavior and determining how many of the Seven Deadly Sins she may have committed. It's titled "Sarah Palin's Capitol Sins." (sic)
Here's an excerpt:
....But if she loses, the scrum of handlers, the mosh pit of reporters and the throngs of panting fans will quickly recede, and Palin will be left alone in that long, dark Alaskan winter to pick up the pieces of her family’s shattered and ransacked lives, and there will be plenty of time to ponder both her past behavior and her future place in this world.
Win or lose, Palin should take the time to introspect. Other statesmen who are professed Christian believers, like Huckabee and Obama, have done it, and they are broadly popular without being dismissive of others or intentionally divisive. They have demonstrated it is possible to resolve the conflicts between public service and service to one’s god by putting one’s intellect to the task, and then conscientiously conducting oneself in a way which doesn’t forsake one type of service for the other.....
Let me know if you, or anyone, wants to read the whole thing. It's a Word doc 4500+ words long.
PeterAndrew
Speaking as a Christian, I thank you for your imaginative letter from the Almighty. Other than some metaphysical quibbles (e.g., I'm not sure God would call Palin completely "evil"), you have struck the right note by getting divine priorities straight. And, Jesus clearly stated, "My kingdom is not of this world." He was not interested in seizing temporal power but in fulfilling God's purposes by serving others, even when it meant dying for them.
As someone who (unlike Gov. Palin, apparently) actually has read the Constitution and studied it a bit, I also would like to say that the press (unless it is an outlet run by the government) can't violate anyone's First Amendment rights--it's a legal impossibility. Only a government entity can do that. Here is an explanation by the State Department; you can read more at http://usi
"The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that 'Congress shall make no law...abri
Sarah and the Republican Pharisees. Jesus indeed had little good to say about them. From Matthew 23:
Mat 23:27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
Mat 23:28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Sarah you can get the Bible in mp3 format. It would be perfect to listen to in your many travels. Otherwise, you might find God saying, "Sarah, stay off my side. You're not helping!".
thank you! In my mind, God is up there, somewhere, saying no, no, no, that isn't what I meant. I didn't mean for you to be so hateful in my name...
Wow! I appreciate your detailing the anti-Christian, anti-God behavior of Sarah Palin. I would add the part about Jesus's admonition to love your enemies and to do good to those that willfully and spitefully use you.
Officer Wooten is deserving of forgiveness, just as we are to forgive you. Right, Sarah?
Leave it to Otts to nail it. Any follow-up from Him?
The closest I've heard to the voice of the Almighty is Dr, Ralph Stanley, and he endorses Obama
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O brother! What a great article. I love your "medium" trope. I often ask, where do fundamentalists think we get the Bible, a downlink straight to printing presses?
And Lefties are the same about capital-S science, only that comes via a downlink from Vulcan.
cc: Jesus Christ
Is that "corporeal copy," or "co-existant copy," maybe?
God, that was good.
This letter could be have been addressed to all those so called God fearing Christian who are part of the Republican Party...Th
Ellis, haven't you heard?
Sarah Palin's already had direct contact with God....
http://www
I agree with this article, however, there is a part of me that cannot help but feel sorry for Sarah. In my heart I want to believe that the speeches she is given are straight from McCain/Carl Rove's play book. That the words are not her own and she cannot believe them. Then I wake up. You cannot make someone into something they do not have it in their heart to be.
But I think it goes much deeper than that. I had an obviously conservative right-winger, at seeing my Obama button I always wear, tell me that Democrats are to blame for our current financial crisis because they have been in control for the past two years and that if Obama is President "we" (meaning the only person in the room who matters, her) will be paying for everyone.
Her and her husband both were wearing Christian Camp t-shirts. For these republicans, a Christ-like attitude stops at their check books.
'I am a born-again Christian and I endorse this message!' ... No, seriously, I do. It's word-perfect from beginning to end in laying out the core points of Ms Palin's violation and distortion of the basic principles ordinary Christians strive to live by every day.
Just so you know, most of us are NOTHING like her. And, yes, based on His Word, God's very likely not happy with her behavior either.
(Sigh.)
See Stefan Sirucek's Profile
"Absent in body, but present in spirit."
1 Corinthians v. 3.
"Nifty in body, but empty in head."
Palin, v. 08
Thanks for a great piece! I agree with Itchybiscuit in that a candidate's faith or lack thereof should be irrelevant in an American political race. I disagree, however, that it is totally irrelevant in palin's case for the following reason:
If you say: "Vote for me because I can stuff twenty eight hamburgers in my mouth at once", and then it turns out you can't, I'm gonna say: "You liar, I can't vote for you, not because you eat an awful lot of hamburgers, but because you are lying about a totally irrelevant qualificat
LOL. Amen!
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