Mrs. Palin is WRONG.

Call me a Right-Winger if you want to. After all, I do agree with a lot of the conservative rhetoric. However, when it comes to religion and the governments involvement in it....awe, heck no!

Governor Palin was on the O'Reilly Factor talking about the National Day of Prayer, but she went a bit further than her usual party line of calling America a Christian Nation. "I think we should keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant," she said. "They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 commandments, its pretty simple."

Well....THERE GOES THE SABBATH.

Let me reiterate that. The 10 commandments strictly forbids working on the sabbath. This would mean that there is one day of the week in which there would be no doctors, no nurses, no EMT's, no firefighters, and no police working at all. If you are raped, robbed, or have a heart attack on this day....oh well. This would also mean that gas stations would be closed, and anyone caught mowing their lawn on that particular day would get hung.

But lets look at this even more logically...lets ignore the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom and pretend that the first amendment was based solely for the religious freedom of Christians. So now we have to ask....which Christians? Every Christian, even those who attend the same church, interprets the Bible differently. This was the cause of much consternation in Europe well before the American Continent was discovered. It was the reason why the pilgrims and puritans came here in the first place...because someone deemed that they weren't the *right* type of Christian. When it came to ratifying the Constitution (with its making a test of religion for office illegal) and the bill of rights (with its strictness in individual religious liberty) , they were, again, an extreme minority...so they whole heartedly accepted the fact that there would be religious freedom.

But lets look at a current example of religious interpretation....Israel is the perfect example. Its obvious that Judaism is the national faith, and that Jewish laws are observed. Unfortunately, people who do not follow the Hasidic (fundamentalist) interpretation are often finding themselves the victims of such law interpretation. As an example....an orthodox Jewish woman was beaten and kicked in the face because she refused to give up her seat for several ultra-orthodox men....even though it was not one of the busses that segregated the men and women. Not to mention that the particular Jewish law these men are claiming to follow only demands that women sit in the back of the synogogue, not the bus. So who is right? The attackers, or the victim?

Of course, I never heard of such a law among the Christians. But lets take prayer for example. The same people that Mrs. Palin is pandering to (in other words, trying to get their vote) are the same ones who want prayer put into the school ciriculum. However, I happen to be one of those who follows Mathew 6:5...only hypocrits pray in public. Would I or my children be beaten because we refuse to pray in public?

Is this what you want for the United States, Mrs. Palin? Where Christians come to blows because of interpretation? Where a Baptist child is paddled in school because he believes paying homage to the flag is idolatry? Where a half-Jewish child is attacked by an adult because his mother simply asked for the teachers to be sensitive to the needs of children who do not practice Christmas? Because this is what you are asking for. And yes...these two latter incidents did occur right here in the United States in the past 10 years.

And I guarantee you...if you attempt to create a state-run (or even state-sponsered) religion, these incidents will increase. Is that right? Is that Christian? No, its no more Christian than getting thousands of people to believe the lie that our Founding Fathers were Puritans and wanted a Christian Theocracy. In fact, the latter act breaks at least TWO (if not three) of the 10 commandments that these liars claim to hold so high. (They, like most Christians who vehemently defend the 10 commandments, probably can't even repeat more than one or two).

But more than this....I don't WANT the state telling me what to believe, or how and when I should bend my knee and bow my head, and to whom I should bend and bow to. After all....is it really Jesus the state is promoting? Every time a puritan-faithed preacher or senator is caught with drugs, caught not paying their taxes, caught with female prostitutes and male prostitutes...it diminishes any thought that these people have our best interest in heart when they preach from the pulpit or the town hall meeting. It just drives home the fact that these power mongers are using our faith against us to gain more money and more power.

Please, people...don't let these whore mongers prostitute your faith. Follow the law and the faith as God tells you to follow it. Never let another human use your faith against you, or stand between you and your God. And rebuke any religious leader who wants you to do the opposite. Chances are, they are being paid to change their theology to what the state demands them to.

Okay....so now I'm a liberal for wanting the state to stay the F*** out of my beliefs as well as out of my underwear drawer. *Yawn*. Whatever. Go eat some grass.