Why is Sarah Palin attacked so viciously for her faith in God?

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Francis W. Porretto answers that question beautifully at Eternity Road, and he does it without even mentioning Sarah Palin's name. Here's the Cliff Notes version:

American left-liberals are violently hostile toward Christianity. As Ann Coulter noted in Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right, politics for the left-liberal is a religion substitute, and they can't abide competition from the real thing. Christians worship God; left-liberals worship power, most especially its instantiation in government.

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Yet 74% of Americans describe themselves as Christians of one denomination or another.

Granted that not all self-described Christians live in perfect fidelity to the Commandments. Yet the proscriptions of the Christian ethic... constitute a code of law that makes all other law unnecessary. Were it our secular law code, all our legislatures could permanently cease operation...which is why they who worship power cannot abide Christianity and the Christian ethic: It renders them superfluous, and reveals their aspirations as foolish and self-aggrandizing.

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Thomas Paine and Daniel Webster both wrote of government as a necessary evil: a thing made necessary by the failure of some among us to abide by the Christian ethic. The State's justification, in other words, arises from the evil that men do...which is why power-worshippers prefer that evil men predominate over good ones.

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There's a lot of loose talk about "rights" these days, almost all of it spewed by left-liberals anxious to promote a scheme of assertive rights: Smith's rights to things Jones must provide at his own expense, on pain of punishment. But if there exists even one assertive right, there can be no defensive rights, for one who chooses not to comply willingly must be coerced into submission by any means necessary. If he should be killed for resisting, what of it? He violated someone's assertive right to health care, or to a "free" education, or to be supported in indolence, or to the approval and acceptance of everyone despite his licentious or degenerate conduct. Off with his head!

The Founders understood this. Christ made it as explicit as He could. Which is all the explanation we need for left-liberal power-worshippers' deliberate obfuscation of the Founders' Constitution and their abjuration of Christ and His teachings.

This is what Sarah Palin meant when she sat down with Billy Graham and said that this nation should return to the humbleness of the founders, who sought God's blessing, protection and guidance for the new nation they had established.

- JP