Posted by
Longplay on Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:16:01 AM
With the aghast tone of this AP report, "Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'", the media once again displays its total disdain for Christianity. It doesn't even seem to have an inkling that to most Christians, and even many non-Christian Americans, the content of this prayer is not all that odd, much less alarming.
The odd thing is that Ms. Palin was not even the one doing the praying, but was prayed over by a guest pastor, Bishop Thomas Muthee, someone from a different culture, and a man "of color". Usually the left falls all over itself for such a spiritual person. Desmond Tutu could perhaps have given this prayer.
While Pastor Muthee's Word of Faith church is thought by some Christian scholars to be "outside the pale" of Christian orthodoxy, praying for protection from satan (evil) and praying for financial support for a mission in life, having fellow congregants lay their hands on you, is commonplace and seems rather innoucuous.
In trying to paint Palin as scary because of this prayer, the left only points the other three fingers back at itself, for Barack Obama's spiritual mentors are far outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy, and his poloitical philoshophy mentors, mostly Marxists, are far and away outside of the the Founder's beliefs, American beliefs.
Now for the kicker. Bishop Muthee is from Kenya. I wonder if he knows Barack Obama's brother?