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Clinton Trivializes Faith

By Al Schumann on Friday June 8, 2007 02:08 AM

Mrs Clinton admitted that she prayed but surmised that there was a lot of "rolling of eyes" from God given the "trivial and self-serving" requests her prayers entailed. "I take my faith personally and seriously," she said. "I come from a tradition that is perhaps a little too suspicious of people who wear their faith on their sleeves . . . so a lot of the talk about faith doesn't come naturally to me," she said.

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Her conception of a snarky, impatient, somewhat passive aggressive deity is awfully familiar. It's not unusual for people with an immature and dishonest approach to see the divine as an extension of themselves. Her false modesty gambit in expressing a reluctance to discuss her alleged faith doesn't do much to cover that up. In context, it comes across as yuppie omerta and paranoia. The accidental honesty of confessing to trivializing God with self-serving "requests" doesn't help either. If you respect someone or something, you simply don't do that. I can easily see her petitioning with several thousand page volumes of carefully hedged, thoroughly mendacious and ultimately meretricious legalisms -- perhaps along the lines of that HillaryCare farce. It would be a real coup for her to drag down something so grand and so important to many people. I don't think she can help herself, quite honestly. It's not what I would call evil per se, but it's a banality of the soul and a core contempt for anything good that puts evil well within her reach. In an effort to satisfy the dime's worthers, I would call it a "lesser evil" than Bush's full blown psychotic relationship with the divine and will happily admit that her's has had a lot more thought put into it.

Comments (2)

op:

i agree completely
with this understatement

" It's not unusual for people ....
to see the divine
as an extension of themselves "
even if their's no "real "belief or faith "
or hope let alone charity

mother clinton's god
now that's a fearsome almighty
the great mommy dearest in the sky

and her revelations about
private pray requests for
self improvement and strength no doubt
ghastly all

where we part scruggs....

give me georgie's god
of the dry high ball
anyday

at least he's
furious and howlingly
unfair ...a cyclops

no chance of deep inwit guilt
for any of us
at HIS judgement day

just slipshod slaughter
come what may


if we had to elect a god
for the next for years
who's god would get your vote
st hill's
or the present decider in chief's ???

Scruggs:

"if we had to elect a god
for the next for years
who's god would get your vote
st hill's
or the present decider in chief's ???"

Babylon and evil dichotomies go hand in hand, don't they Owen? There'd be no purple finger for me in that particular contest.

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