Susan K. Smith, senior pastor of Advent UCC on Columbus, Ohio writing in the Washington Post/Newsweek On Faith site reminds us of some of the amazing things religious and political leaders have done saying that God wanted them to. She is especially concerned with Gov. Sarah Palin’s approach on this, concluding her post with
Should Sen. McCain win, and something happen to him during his term, this fundamentalist woman, who believes in the divine endorsement of the Iraqi War, will be our president. I would imagine that as she would fight to end all abortions, and stop same sex marriage, as well as allow more and more people to carry guns, probably without background checks, that she would do so with the mantra that "God" was telling her to do it.
Whose God?
The judgmental, evil-endorsing God of the governor is not the same God I have come to love. The God I know would never have told us or any nation to provoke a war based on lies. The God I know would be weeping at what we, God's children, do to each other.
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