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Originally Posted by Flasch186
Because not everyone in our country is a Christian and the things in parenthesis are not mutually exclusive to Christianity.
As an example, Palin saying that the "Iraq Mission was a mission from God".....thats scary shit to a lot of people man. Maybe not Christians (although I think a lot of Christians are able to take the blinders off) but to a majority of the people who aren't Christian or perhaps aren't any religion, that is some seriously scary shit.
But having one side fighting a "jihad" (and Im not using Iraq in this statement) and us saying we're the moral high ground but then have "leadership" (a General made similar statements) state that we're fighting on a mission from god, or "jihad" equivalent is super duper scary shit.
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But the mutually exclusive thing is my point - do you really think Palin is in favor of the war exclusively to please god, or do you think there's overlap with her own foreign policy views?
I'm sure politicans talked about World War II as being some kind of holy war of good v. evil. But the war wasn't really fought to please god. When someone invokes religious/spiritual rhetoric after the fact, I lump it in with the general, American, bland, "Christianity" where god has to do with everything. Palin (like most politicans on both sides), supported the war at first (and like a much smaller number, still does). I don't believe that that opinion really has anything to do with god.
Compare it to say, if Bush decided to invade Norway tomorrow because God told him to, and he found some code in the bible that said it was a just action. That's be a tad scary, because there's no non-relgious reasons to invade Norway.
Do you think McCain, or any presidential candidate, would wage a "jihad" war? That seems like a pretty unreasonable fear, and just fearmongering by Obama supporters. Is the Iraq war about jihad? I haven't heard even the biggest Bush opponents claim that.