Apparently, God can not will McCain to win this election alone.

This weekend in Iowa, Arnold Conrad – a former pastor, declared in an invocation prior to a McCain rally that ...

"There are millions of people around this world praying to their god -- whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah -- that his [McCain's] opponent wins [Obama], for a variety of reasons..."

Okay, leaving aside this man ignorance, both Hinduism and Buddhism are religions, not names of deities. Furthermore, while Hinduism recognizes Jesus' divinity, Buddhism can be practiced without supernatural beliefs and is conditionally ATHEISTIC. Yes, that's correct, no belief in God is required to be a Buddhist. (In some cases, even I qualify as a Buddhist.)

In the case of Islam, Allah, is an Arabic word meaning "the one" and is not a name, and is the same God of Judaism and Christianity. Christians believe that Christianity replaces Judaism. Muslims believe that Islam replaces both Christianity and Judaism. Abraham is the patriarch of all three religions.

How is McCain a liability to God? The pastor explains...

"And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation because they're going to think that their god is bigger than you if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day."

Oh my. This erection... I mean this election, is a matter of whose God is bigger! The implication, of course, is that Obama is an outsider as are his supporters, because they pray to different gods.

Xenophobia anyone? Is seems that Conrad is continuing the McCain campaign tradition of stirring up unnecessary divisiveness. In the United States, religion is a more effective wedge-tool than politics.

By the way, what country does this pastor live in? Americans are overwhelmingly Christian in heritage as Obama is a practicing Christian.

Anyone with a little Biblical instruction can read between the lines in this sermon. What are good believers instructed to do when someone "serves other gods?" Chapter 13 of  Deuteronomy instructs that you should "surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword"  and "utterly destroy" it while re-asserting again that should it be done at the "edge of the sword."

Conrad speaks in the language of religious warfare. If McCain does not win, God is diminished. **

After the election, perhaps former Republican Presidential candidate, Bob Dole, can give God a hand with a product he used to "pitch" for.

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** "Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."  (Champan Cohen)

Currently, there is friction over a building site where tradition affirms as the site of the last supper. The evidence?

"In chapter two of the Acts of Apostles, Peter describes the place, mentioning that it is near David’s Tomb"

It's on the paucity of this evidence alone that has justified belief about this site for centuries.

 

 

The site now has Jews and Christians at odds.

“The construction work going on at the site raises the suspicion that someone is trying to Judaize a Catholic site and prevent freedom of religious expression.”

What about Jews freedom of religion? It's fine and dandy in the mind of the Christian for the Christian, but a Jew? No. It's a good thing there is a modern court system in Israel, otherwise, there would have been rioting in the streets.

Incidentally, I wonder about the mind of Christian Zionist in this situation. Israel for the Jews - until you mess with our perceived religious priorities.

For a secularist and atheist like me, this is just one more unnecessary division between people, made necessary by religious priorities - all of which, utterly false.

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