Ben Shapiro - God to Palin: 'You Go, Girl'

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Here are some choice morsels from Ben Shapiro's Wednesday Townhall.com column:

Over the weekend, former John McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt told "60 Minutes" something shocking about McCain's former running mate, Sarah Palin. It seems that when Schmidt met Palin after McCain selected her, he was surprised that she was so calm. Schmidt apparently asked her how she could remain so tranquil in the face of such a monumental life change. She responded, "It's God's plan."

Naturally, the media went bonkers over this revelation...

But the lamestream media's foot soldiers always freak out when they encounter any one of the majority of human beings on the planet who believe that God takes an active part in in our lives:

The truth is that it is a common article of faith in virtually all major religions that God guides the footsteps of each and every human being. Benjamin Franklin, a not-so-religious theologian, said that the American Revolution could be successful only with the direct help of God. As he put it, "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

When conservatives point out, says Shapiro, that God is in control, it scares the living daylights out of the left, because they are the ultimate control freaks:

If the media elites are wrong -- if God is indeed a driving factor in history -- then things may not go as the media elites plan. Sarah Palin may indeed meet with success rather than media-ordained failure. The tea parties may indeed become a mainstream movement, rather than the fringe movement the media wishes them to be.

And that scares liberals. Because in the liberal view, no divine presence can be directing things. For the left, the only gods behind history are the gods of economics (see Thomas Friedman and Karl Marx), multiculturalism (see John Dewey), genes (see Richard Dawkins) and environment (see Al Gore and Jared Diamond).

But again, Shapiro's point is that Sarah Palin's religious views are actually consistent with those of the great majority of the earth's population. People of different religions and denominations the world over agree with the former governor that God has a plan, and each of our lives is but a small part of that plan. So when liberals mock Palin for her belief in a personal God, they are mocking an overwhelming majority of Americans at the least. The last time we checked, liberals represented only about 20 percent of the country's population. That makes them a very vocal minority, but a minority nonetheless.

- JP