The Force of Good

In Charlie Gibson's ABC interview of Sarah Palin, he played a clip of a segment of a speech that Sarah Palin made in church:

"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right, also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God - that's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is plan and that plan is God's plan. So bless them with your prayers, your prayers of protection over our soldiers..."

The quote above is the full quote. The mental midget Charlie Gibson skewed the comment in his question below:

GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?"

Naturally Sarah answered the question beautifully - explaining that she was quoting Abraham Lincoln. Read the transcript here.

Here's what scorches my cookies - Left-wingers, apparently Charlie Gibson among them, desperately try to paint Christians as equatable to our radical islamist enemies. They think Christians are crazy for believing in things like Creation (listen to Matt Damon's tirade about the age of the dinosaurs). They have the most difficult time believing that God could possibly be on our side. Wasn't God on our side when the North won the Civil War and slavery was ended? Wasn't God on our side (and the side of all members of the Allied Forces) during WWII when we stopped the evil of Nazism? Wasn't God on our side as we brought about the end of the Cold War and halted the spread of Communism, an ideology that has killed more people than the Nazis? Isn't God on our side now as we depose murderous dictator Saddam Hussein, give the Iraqi people rights and control of their own nation, fight the evils of terrorism all across the globe to make the world a safer place? What is the presence of God if not a driving force of everlasting Good that inspires mankind to act?

Liberals will interpret Sarah's words as more crazy talk from Christians hell-bent on conquering the world and spreading their religion. In Charlie's words, "starting holy wars". (Sounds like our enemies, right?)

Conservatives know that when we pray for God to be on our side, we are praying for God to lead us down the right path, to support us in doing what is right, in doing his will. We believe, as our forefathers believed, that God had a hand in the creation of this great nation and we have a responsibility to God to always do what is right and just.