Here is a video of Palin saying the Iraq war is God's plan and the Alaska pipeline is God's will and what have you. Now I know people of faith believe God has his hand in every detail of our lives and I am totally fine with that. I too have moments where I feel like I am actually watching God's devine presence, but saying this sort of stuff... well, it doesn't go over very well. Besides, assuming to understand God's plan? Isn't that also a no no?
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That's not what she's saying at all, but I can see why people may understand it the way you seem to be.
She's praying (and she's asking the congregation to pray) for God's will in all areas of her life, her state's decisions, or her country's decisions, whether it be the oil pipeline, the war in Iraq, etc.
She's not saying that any of this stuff IS God's will. She's praying that God's will be shown via our actions, and that God show his will overall. Maybe he does not want the pipeline. Maybe he does not want us in Iraq. Over time (if you believe God has His hand in this stuff) His will will be shown. Maybe we lose in Iraq. Maybe the pipeline does not happen.
Or maybe the pipeline goes through, and in the process good things happen. Or maybe the war in Iraq goes as well as possible, and good things come of it.
Or maybe its some combination of outcomes.
But no matter what the outcomes, she's also praying that the Christians involved be mindful of asking God for his will, not their own. That during the process of any of this stuff (pipelines, a war, talking with your Mom, eating lunch, whatever) each Christian be mindful of being Christ-like, which means putting God's will ahead of yours and accepting good and bad.
That's really what she's talking about when she's praying for God's will in the pipeline project and the Iraq war. She's not stating that it IS God's will. She's asking that God show his will overall (what the overall outcome is, no one knows) and that people be mindful of God's will in their daily lives.
Hope that makes sense.
Doesn't matter much what she means, the message is clear and most Dems and borderline Republicans could do with a little less God in their representatives. This is bad. You can kiss swaying any hillary voters good-bye. They're a Godless lot if ever there was one.
So it doesn't matter if Obama is a Muslim or a Black Theology church member, but it matters if the VP choice is a Christian?
That's right, it doesn't matter if the Dems are all those things.
I see what you are saying, BVM and I think it is a good point and since I don't have the religious background you have, I will assume you are correct. But many people, myself included although not as much as I used to, would compare the christian right to the radical left. Both groups, in a lot of people's minds, are fanatical kooks. Jesus Camp is a common example people use when pointing to christian kookyness
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