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Dear Sarah,
Prayer is one thing. I’m not religious or anything, but I do know that prayer is helpful to people who are religious in that it gives them comfort or makes them feel like they are taking action.
Praying that someone comes up with a solution is ok. Praying that someone will find a way to keep the oil from spilling any further is ok. I have no problem with any of that.
But divine intervention? Seriously? You wanted to be vice president of a country and you’re spouting nonsense about divine intervention?
Let’s be realistic here, Sarah. How many times have people asked for divine intervention to stop some sort of disaster, be it personal or a national emergency. How many hurricanes have devastated cities? Earthquakes? Floods? Did God stop any of those things from happening? No. You know why? Your God is not interventionist. No God has ever stopped a disaster - man made or natural - from occurring, nor has one stepped in to stop a calamity that has already started.
What about just regular every day people, Sarah? People who are dying of cancer. People who have been in car accidents and are bleeding out in their vehicles while waiting for help? What about children who are being beaten and neglected by their parents? There is no divine intervention for them. What makes you think your God is suddenly going to say “Hey, maybe I should do something about that oil spill. I’ll just reach down there and magically make it stop!” What makes you think divine intervention will occur when it has never, ever happened before and never will?
My real problem here, Sarah, is that you are a public figure. You are a public figure who had a run at the White House. You have thousands of people looking up to you as a role model, a figure head and a leader, though I can’t for the life of me understand why. You are spouting absolute nonsense and that scares me because there are people who take you very, very seriously and I’d hate to think that there are any people who today are on their knees begging God to come down and fix things because Sarah Palin told them to do that.
Then again, I wonder if you really believe any of the pollutants that spew out of your mouth. I wonder if you’re just saying what you think your followers want to hear because you’re on an ego trip sustained by their adoration. I wonder if you don’t get some deep thrill out of the whole tea party thing, knowing how easy it is to get blind faith people to hang on your every word.
You’re Jim Jones without the Kool Aid. Koresh without the compound. You’re a dangerous woman, Sarah Palin. It may seem like a stretch for me to connect the dots from asking for divine intervention to being a cult leader, but that’s the road those little dots seem to take.
Oh, I’m not going to tell you to stop talking. Freedom of ideas, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, you know all that stuff. But I am going to hope that people stop listening to you.
Have a nice day!
Love,
Me
