1) Mainstream Christianity is predominantly Catholic in America. Which does not share the dual covenant idea with Palin.
2) Obviously her devotion to Israel is rooted in her version of Christianity. Not unlike Hagee, Palin believes we do God's work when engaged in war that ultimately helps Israel, hence her policy with Iran and the like. This even though Korea is far more of a loose cannon to the world than Iran. This even as communist China gets stronger and stronger.
Palin:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country” and pray “that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure we're praying for: that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan.” What does she consider God's plan? I would like to see God's map of the Middle East. What would it look like?
Sarah Palin displayed an Israeli flag in her governor’s office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative. She believes he blesses those who bless Israel. What does it mean to bless Israel? Does that mean her salvation is directly connected to the state of Israel? To me America becomes a means to an end.
I think her radically religious foreign policy is that she will get a free pass to the afterlife by using America as the war machine that will rebuild the MiddleEast in a matter which is consistent with her biblical belief that she shares with Hagee.
Ohhhh, so thats it! I was wondering what her radical christian foreign policy was too. So you differ with her on the issue of support of Israel. And the reference to Korea only makes sense if she was abandoning Korea to focus on Israel.
By the way,,Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3% of Christians in America, Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, is the largest individual denomination. So how does that make Catholicism predominant in America? There are double the number of Protestants.
But for arguments sake, accepting your premise that Catholics are dominant, i was not aware that they were anti-israeli anymore.
I am Catholic, but not all Catholics are Republicans, let alone conservative Republicans, or even conservatives, so that would seem to put your argument on shakey ground, in that Catholics in the mainstream, as you put it, do not vote pro-life as the Church directs.
You’ve cited her prayers. Have you considered that her prayers are “prayers” and only prayers? I also pray nightly for Bibi and for Israel. A tracking of my posts will reveal that much. I also stand firmly with Israel.
As for North Korea, that nutcase is mild by comparison, to the flaming Muslim madman in Iran, who has time and time again threatened to blow the Jewish state off the map, once he obtains the means to do it. He doesn’t give a rip about his own people either. He would be happy to blow them all to bits -— dual nuclear extermination. It would all be for Allah.
I think you’re projecting a lot of your thoughts onto Sarah Palin when it comes to you saying she will conduct her foreign policy as a way for her to “free pass to the afterlife.” I think that’s “absolutely nutz!”
That's quite an interesting take on Palin's possible foreign policy. If we suppose she actually believes that stuff, then I suppose it would be interesting to speculate what she'd do if somebody managed to convince Commander in Chief Palin that some Middle Eastern battle or other was a fulfillment of end-times prophecy.
But of course, all that assumes Palin actually buys into that particular brand of end-times hysteria. I think it makes for fine campfire ghost stories, and like any of us Ms. Palin might well get a delicious thrill from the thought that it's true.
But I seriously doubt that she believes it enough to try to act on it in real life ... and it's highly unlikely that Congress would allow her to get away with it in any case.
Looking at it a different way, there's an interesting parallel between Palin and the beliefs we can impute to her from her choice of churches; and what beliefs we can impute to Obama because he attended Rev. Wright's church. I suspect that although they both have a general affinity for the tone and beliefs of their respective churches, neither of them fully buys into the rhetoric coming from the pulpit.
In a nation that was founded as Protestant, with over 98% Protestants, and that is still majority Protestant, mainstream Christianity is predominantly Protestant in America. That is why the Republican party and conservatism manage to survive.
You are a little loose with quotes also.
“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 U.S. soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.”