Wednesday, September 24, 2008

SARAH PALIN... Why We Like Her And Why They Hate Her

From the moment John McCain announced Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, a cataclysmic shift occurred in Barack Husein Obama’s race to become President of the United States. In the blink of an eye, the media’s self appointed savior and presumptive 44th President was in a tailspin from which he has not yet fully recovered. Equally as fast, the Republican Party came to its senses and mended the broken bridge with its evangelical conservative base. As Obama’s V.P. selection was scooped by the media in the early morning hours, McCain’s selection was as secretive as it was surprising.

Now, the political pundits from both the left and the right struggle to explain and understand how this once obscure woman from Alaska could have reinvigorated a party in decline and given birth to such an overwhelming groundswell of excitement, interest and support. In the midst of it they all seem to miss the obvious.

She is unlike any other political candidate before on the national stage. There is a directness in her approach and a sense that the words of patriotism and faith are not just words in her life but a part of her. The very portrait of her family speaks volumes of a family that has weathered the challenges that God sometimes sends our way and through it all, you see a family that is bonded together by love that is not contrived or superficial. Without doubt, it is a family like yours or mine that is imperfect and at times has failed to be all that it could be, but to any honest observer it is clearly one that is held together by love of one another. At its center, her family is most like ours with its disappointments, achievements and heartaches; therefore, when the attacks come we feel their hurts and take offense at the insidious evil which for political gain so ruthlessly seeks to destroy this woman and her family. In the end, most of her supporters come to recognize that she is most like us...the people.

This is why the level of attacks against her are beyond the pale and unprecedented. In the final analysis the left’s insincere political correctness, esoteric words, grandiose notions of fairness and claiming to help the weak are abandoned with their all encompassing desire to be in power "by any means necessary." They hate what Sarah Palin represents in general because it is a clear portrait of us and our beliefs which they despise above all.

On another note, as a Christian these attacks should be eye-opening since her beliefs and views as an evangelical are drawing the most vicious attacks from the left. Any Christian who has ever doubted that we could see physical persecution in America should take note of the attacks, ridicule and hatred directed at Sarah Palin. Although it is directed at her personally this time, it is not hard to see that the feelings and hatred that are driving these attacks are pervasively at Christians in general.

3 Comments:

At 2:41 PM, Blogger Kat said...

Ouch. That last bit hit pretty close to home. I think you are right that we should take note of the hatred. Jesus did warn that the time would come when even family would betray one another to condemn His followers, and believe they were performing a service to God. While I grant that has already occured in the 1st century, history is not done yet, and we live in very "interesting" times.

I think it could grow increasingly tempting for believers to keep our Christianity on the quiet side. Right now it's simply easier than fighting the tide of political correctness and risking offending our neighbors, but as time goes on one wonders how far we are from open hostility. I'm not talking about current persecution--anyone who lives in China or the Middle East would laugh at such a thought regarding American Christians--but I do see the seeds of intolerance and ridicule toward true Christian beliefs being planted and tended.

It is such a disconcerting thought. I think about European Christians hiding Jews in their attics and basements during the Holocaust. Is it really that impossible that someday it could be us needing a place to hide? Maybe not in present-day America, but we really are no longer a Christian nation, and the way things are going... I wonder.

 
At 10:25 AM, Blogger Ishmael said...

Who are they? Many people of faith don't care for Palin either. The comments concerning the oppression of “Christians” in the United States are scientifically indefensible.
1. The vast majority of Americans are Christians.
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris.pdf
You might not believe most of this 80%+ of Americans, but I am almost positive that your opinion doesn't change their faith.
2. Polls indicate that Americans would not vote for an openly non-religious person. So how can you make one part the God party when we know that an atheist/agnostic/etc. candidate would not be voted into office?
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/02/24/6002
A question: would Jesus join the Republican party if he came to Earth today? We all know he would not join a political party. He didn't join one when he was on the Earth, and there were plenty to chose from.
The comments concerning European Christians hiding Jews as analogous to "these times" is preposterous.

 
At 12:43 PM, Blogger Jay said...

Cliff,

The "they" I refer to are those leftist and secular forces composed of the "mainstream media," "liberal left" and anti-christian forces comprised of muslims as well as other groups.

Regarding your "preposterous" that any christians in America are now or could be in the future subjected to persecution, I simply post one news story from last week that confirms that there is and continues to be an anti-christian bias at work in our culture which has and continues to ramp up.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=286900
Just because you've chosen to ignore the fight and change your mind about "everything" doesn't change the reality.
As a clarification, neither I or Kat were inferring a "present tense" level of persecution on christians in America that rises to the extreme of Hitler's Germany, but within our present time there are numerous christians across the world that are openly persecuted with hostility to the point of death for nothing more than their religious convictions and beliefs. ie. Sudan, India, Indonesia and Turkey.

 

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