Sarah Palin will never be mistaken for a deep thinker. While she may be more of an idiot than she is dangerous, she is now appealing to some of the most horrific historical aspects of Christian imperial brutality.
“Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” – Sarah Palin with one of the most theologically offensive statements I’ve ever heard. #Torture
— Greg Hillis (@gregorykhillis) April 28, 2014
Really? Yep. Here it is:
Video of the speech: http://t.co/bssYAFvbSF #Torture
— Greg Hillis (@gregorykhillis) April 28, 2014
And she is standing by her lunacy:
I asked Sarah Palin about her water boarding remark. "Would I make it again? Why wouldn't I, yeah, absolutely." http://t.co/R8ki8v5YYF
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) April 28, 2014
Some of my favorite responses:
A Christian who can equate the sacrament of baptism with a barbaric form of torture is not a Christian: http://t.co/1CwDlwioSg
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) April 28, 2014
RT @chrislhayes: This liberal says Amen http://t.co/vw435qTpNT
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) April 28, 2014
Of course, there also has to be the sarcastic liberal Mormon response:
Baptizing for the dead is how we baptize terrorists – mormons
— Kyle (@KJinSLC) April 28, 2014
While Palin is likely unaware of the extent to which this comment evokes images of the Crusades, she is showing a dark-side of an American political and religious ideology which combines zeal with a disdain for depth and intellectual thought. We see it everywhere. Palin just doesn’t try to hide it.
So I guess napalm in Vietnam was the equivalent of the holy spirit decending at Pentacost? I could keep going with the jokes, but I’m serious making myself sick.
Seems to have been a bridge too far for a lot of conservatives too. Twitter’s been abuzz slamming her. i.e. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sacrilegious-sarah-palin/
The ProfB tweet above is sharing the Dreher essay.
I am afraid that there are too many with impaired grey matter that mistake her for a thinker, and, what is even more despairing, for a follower of Christ http://spurgeonwarquotes.wordpress.com