Posted on 05/02/2014 9:50:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
ormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has come under fire from Catholics and other Christians over her "blasphemous" and "sacrilegious" comments comparing waterboarding to baptism.
The 2008 Republican candidate for vice president said at a National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis over the weekend that if she were in charge, "waterboarding is how we'd baptize terrorists."
Edward Peters, a professor on canon law at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, attacked Palin in his blog, "In the Light of the Law," saying that even if "her words only meet the lesser standard of 'irreverence' toward God or holy things, they were wrong to utter and wrong to applaud."
He continued, "Whether one is a left-wing looney who becomes unhinged upon simply seeing this woman who loves her family and her country or is a right-wing yahoo who looks on her as some sort of high priestess of traditional values, Sarah Palin's statement … should shock the conscience.
"I think Palin's guardian angel wept at her comparing baptism to waterboarding."
Deacon Ed Kandra, of the Brooklyn diocese in New York, pointed out on the website Patheos that "equating torture with baptism is extremely offensive — and, in fact, blasphemous."
Kandra said that waterboarding "degrades human life" and that Palin "made a mockery of the foundational sacrament of our faith."
He wrote, "As someone who calls herself 'pro-life,' she should understand that we are called to respect life in all its forms, at all times, from conception to natural death. Pro-life Americans should be appalled."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I guess these same “Christians” have no problem with Obama DRONING people
I didn’t realize some group out there had taken the role of speaking for me.
Get a sense of humor, you dolts.
I never assume that so called “Christian leaders” are actually Christians…..
Democrats are false christians who support infanticide and homosexuality. Yet they feel superior to judge others. The story is a fabrucated lie.
She did not “compare” baptism to waterboarding, she used “baptism” in a way commonly done for decades, i.e., as an analogy for doing something for the first time, or being exposed to something for the first time, or being initiated into something, as in the common phrase “baptism under fire.”
I hope these “Christians” put as much effort into saving their churches from collapse from the left, because they mostly have been sucking some serious holy water at stopping that.
these tards do know it was a joke right??
Where were they when they filmed The Little Colonel baptism scene with Henry Clay who got dunked until he really repented? ;-)
I expected better from NewsMax. They quote two liberal Christians and then post a headline that suggests ALL Christians are slamming Palin?
Edward Peters, a professor on canon law at Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Deacon Ed Kandra, of the Brooklyn diocese in New York
Rod Dreher, editor of The American Conservative
Joe Carter of The Gospel Coalition
Mollie Hemingway, a Lutheran
James Arnold, editor of Alliance Alert at Alliance Defending Freedom
....The [Catholic News Agency] reported that although Palin was baptized Catholic, she was raised to attend a nondenominational ecclesial community.
I wonder how many of them supported her in 2008?
She often ends a speaking tour by leaving the media and the opposition with something to chew on. She did the same on the last day of her NE tour with the Paul Revere comment. The media chews on these remarks for weeks, driving home the point that she was trying to make, that if she were in charge that she would be a tough and principled leader.
The remark itself was heard by only a few thousand but the media has spread it far and wide. Sarah’s new “likes” on Facebook increased 27.5% over the previous week as a result.
When they realize that the remark is a net gain for Palin, then they clothe their criticism in choir robes hoping to pry away the most fervently religious supporters who the detractors actually detest the most.
The word baptism is at times used as a metaphor for someone’s introduction into some reality. “Baptism by fire.” The word has meaning other than the Christian ritual.
Palin was clearly using the word as a metaphor, unless these whiners and cheap shot artists want to make the case that she actually mean to baptise terrorists into the Christian faith, which cannot be done except through acceptance by the baptisee.
Hell, she has a ten year lease!
So, the religious organization that allow abortion loving Pelosi and Biden take communion condemns Palin. And one is so in touch with the All Mighty that he knows what Palin’s Guardian Angel is thinking.
And the Christian organizations that law down and let the federal government run them over because they’re afraid they’ll loss their tax exempt status condemns Palin.
I say they’re all frauds.
anyone remember when Morton Downey Jr. baptized the atheist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IIkOwd7GY
32:35
Other people use the term “baptism by fire” in a non-religious way and nobody gets their panties in a wad over it.
Not only "baptism". When Palin and the Tea-party used the word "target", that word was suddenly the one and only military term anyone ever had used in any political discourse. To use the expression "blood libel" related to any non-Jewish person was antisemitism squared. And now, suddenly, no one has ever heard of the term baptism by fire.
These so called intellectuals are turning out to be less than semi-literate.
Most of the people commenting haven’t read much of the Bible. Apparently this guy has no idea there were church authorized executions and many wars in the Bible. I didn’t know all Christians and Catholics are called upon to be pacifists.
Makes me want to ask this sanctimonious ass if he’s ever used a Neti pot. Waterboarding is not torture, except in the eyes of whiny crybabies and lefties.
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