Palin may be disappointing when it comes to Russia but what a cultural Rorschach test.

I find I have as little regard for the theonomic/hard right “women should be back in the kitchen” approach as I do the left’s venom against Sarah Palin. I remain hopeful that she will be our Maggie Thatcher. Only time will tell.

Thoughts on current events re: Voting and Palin

I have yet to be excited by politics in America.

It’s one and the same. That’s the point.

Re your invitiation around the world, yes, I know, that’s also the point. I am not so sure how Americans can at once blame “radical Muslim fundamentalists” for making those connections but go all misty when a guy who wants to lead us tags Jesus as his favorite philosopher. Is spoken theocracy really any different than a silent one? I’d feel better if it were admitted that it really has more to do with self-protection than a flimsy doctrine of church/state separation.

If you think religious confession has *nothing* to do with governing, I have some countries around the world I’d like to show you.

Seems we agree that one’s theology can affect one’s politics, but just what that means is where it gets interesting. My theology tells me that, as roundly un-Presbyterian and fairly Methodist as it may be, it matters very little if a man tags Jesus as his favorite philosopher. He may even wear funny undergarments. My point about Caesar was that I am not so sure we 21st century American religionists, who assume governing and theological belief ought to be complimentary, appreciate well just what the implication to render unto him really seems to suggest: religious confession has nothing to do with governing.

If we think rapturism is a problem in American-Israeli politics, try swallowing the pagan beliefs of Caesar.

Yes, it’s very surprising, but one’s theology can affect one’s political choices. If I believed that, in order for the Rapture to occur, the nation-state of Israel had to be protected at all costs, and if I held the most powerful political position ever … well, it isn’t too hard to guess what choices I might make.

Pantagruel, McCain’s theology is Bush’s, because polytheism is the de facto state creed right now. If Palin does not pay lip service to it, then she will take serious heat. So don’t expect her to become President so easily, unless she joins the CFR and publically proclaims the validity of a myriad of religious beliefs.

Why not? Would that mean you couldn’t pull the trigger on Paul, being all Baptist? What about Romney? I guess I am wondering what tongues, end-times flow charts and golden plates have to do with governance. After all, Jesus himself told us to render unto he who thought he was–gulp–divine.

It is highly unlikely that Palin will play the Dick Cheney role to McCain’s Bush. It is also unlikely that she will win the Presidency after McCain’s term(s) is over, since the last two VPs to do so were George H.W. Bush and Martin Van Buren. Palin is also a Pentecostal and a dispensationalist, which is not exactly what we want to be the face of “conservatism’s future.”

Most importantly, the top of the ticket still says McCain. *That* is the face of conservatism’s future, always creeping leftward, rejecting traditionalism in favor of open borders, international governance, and abstract rights.