Palin: Jesus Returning Soon-"During My Lifetime"

[kpete]

Palin was an avowed young earth creationist in 1997, according to Philip Munger:

As the ceremony concluded, I bumped into her in a hall away from other people. I congratulated her on her victory, and took her aside to ask about her faith. Among other things, she declared that she was a young earth creationist, accepting both that the world was about 6,000-plus years old, and that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. I asked how she felt about the second coming and the end times. She responded that she fully believed that the signs of Jesus returning soon "during MY lifetime," were obvious. "I can see that, maybe you can't - but it guides me every day."

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-sixten-palins.html

[truebrit71]

1. Bets on whether Charlie Gibson will pursue this in his interview with that Wolf Killer?

...any takers?

Nah, I don't think he will either....

:eyes:

[rurallib]

5. I am thinking Charlie will ask her how she does her hair

and other hard-hitting questions.
Oh, and her views on taxes on capital gains.

[liberal N proud]

I would bet one question he does asker is:

What is it like being a Governor and now Vice Presidential Candidate and a mother of a special needs child?

That is the type of bullshit questions he will ask her.

[DefenseLawyer]

18. "Everyone in the country says you are truly great. Is that tough on you?" n/t

[Barack_America]

2. So she can't commit to serving a full term?

What happens if she's raptured out of her office?

What happens if McCain dies and she happens to be sitting in the oval office at that time?

She believes this is a real possibility and I'd like to hear her responses to these questions (preferably during a prime-time interview. :evilgrin:)

[Mme. Defarge]

9. "What happens if she's raptured out of her office?"

Now THAT would be a deus ex machina!

[TwilightGardener]

3. Oh good God, make the craziness stop.

[1corona4u]

4. Someone should ask her where the fuck he's been

for the last 2000 years....

[DCofVA]

7. Maybe she's running against him.

:hide:

[1corona4u]

21. She's running against Joe Biden...

technically speaking....so are you saying....

;-)

[Arugula Latte]

27. Wasn't he "supposed" to come back within the lifetimes of the very early Xtians?

Funny how these egomaniacs like Palin think they're so special that OF COURSE Jesus has been waiting around to reappear just for them.
Seriously, the mindset of people who think that just boggles me. Hell, it boggles me that millions of people really think this guy is coming back at all, but that's another thread.

[EnviroBat]

6. She truly is from the Land of the Lost

Here's a picture of Sarah Palin in her younger years...

[BeyondGeography]

8. Sarah's fundy looney tunes...the hits just keep on coming

Will the Murkans notice or even care?

[secondwind]

10. when is the interview already? It's Wednesday already..........

BRING IT ON!




:mad:

[Hepburn]

Run as fast as you can...

...this woman is fucking DANGEROUS!

The nuts like her believe that Jay-zeus is gonna come back somewhere in the ME ~~ or so I have been told by a refored Jesus freak ~~ and that is why IMO Palin is mega dangerous. Look for WWIII to break out in the ME if she and McBush are elected.

[alsame]

33. I have a fundie cousin who believe the same thing. Every time

there is a natural disaster in the world (hurricane, tornado, earthquake, etc), she sends me an email about how this is all part of the prophecy and brings us even closer to the return of Jesus in the ME.:crazy:

[Eric J in MN]

11. I don't want her to control nuclear weapons...

...if something happens to the next president.

I'd feel safer with Joe Biden in control of nuclear weapons.

That was my main reason for giving another $300 to Obama after I had thought I was done donating for the year.

[azmouse]

12. well isn't she special!

Even the Jesus himself doesn't know when he'll return (it's in the Bible) but SHE knows. wow....

[Metric System]

13. She is truly one of the most frightening politicians I've ever seen, and that's saying something

after the last 8 years.

[yardwork]

14. Aaaaaahhhhhh!

[Phoonzang]

15. If this is true, someone needs to f'ing HIT her on this.

Not just sit there while she's turned into the second coming herself.

[kurth_]

16. Which is why we must BOMB Iran ASAP to hasten his return

Stupid Fucking Nut.

[Shine]

17. Yikes! That is some scary shit.

:scared:

[PATRICK]

19. Guides her every day

In her helicopter with her rifle.

Waiting.

[The Night Owl]

20. No surprise here. We are talking about someone who has prayer sessions with people who believe...

...that witchcraft is real and must be fought against...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3947504&mesg_id=3958859

[Starry Messenger]

22. Another Land of the Lost fan for Christ. N/t

MPK

[gblady]

23. her extremist, fundamental religious views...

are the single most frightening thing about Ms. Palin...
She's been at that Pentacostal church since age 10...
Those views are totally ingrained in her being.

[elocs]

24. How about this one: "We're closer to the Lord's coming than ever before".

Well, duh. That's pretty obvious if you believe in a second coming. We're also closer to the election on 4 November 2008 than we have ever been before.

That aside, anybody who really believes in a second coming or a "rapture" of believers will hold to the possibility of it happening at any moment, especially in their lifetime.

I have a personal story about the whole rapture and snatched away thing. When I was in my middle 20s I attended a very strict Pentecostal church that taught that women had to wear their hair long and always wear dresses, and also no tv or movies or other worldly entertainment. Eating to excess, though, is something they seemed to encourage. They were big believers in the rapture and the possibility of believers being snatched away at any moment.

I was friends with a family who had a 10 year old son. They were fairly recent converts to the church, so this son was not born into the church, but he really believed. The family was loathe to give up all the worldly entertainment and would simply throw a blanket over their tv (like nobody could figure it out when they visited them). Their son was upset by this hypocrisy, but he was also tempted himself since he had grown up with tv and movies. Well, one Saturday he went with some worldly friends to see the new Superman movie even though he thought it was wrong. When he got home nobody was there and he could not find anyone. He tried calling people and couldn't get through to anyone from the church. By now he was in a near state of panic because he thought that the rapture had happened and that he had been LEFT BEHIND because he went to see a movie. It sounds funny now, but he really believed that then.

His family left the church only a few years later. Today he is 40 and works as a comedian in the Twin Cities of MN and I think he has worked that story into his act over the years, but I remember when it really happened (actually, it was funny to me then too, but this is how they beleive).

[EmilyAnne]

25. Bumper sticker idea:

"In case of Rapture, the office of VP will be vacated."
They slap it on the straight talk express.

[ima_sinnic]

30. I like that! (nt)

[chatnoir]

26. And the very first comment at the blog

"Sometimes I get furious reading your site because you seem over the top, but having met you, I know that you are not. You are consistent and you tell things how they are, maybe a bit too direct for my taste, but you call a spade a spade and sometimes you just get material that throws itself in your lap and what can you do? You are not soft on Democrats, either.

I don't know how I will vote, but I am glad that you blog and share what you know "


:wtf: How can you in your right mind read sth like that and still NOT know how you will vote?? HOW?? :banghead:

[vanderBeth]

28. I think she confused Jesus with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

because they are who would come if she ever became president.

[saltpoint]

29. She's right, but sad to say, she missed him.

Jesus was already here and has since gone back to the Next World.

We happened to run into him coming out of the 3:45 showing of IRON MAN a couple weeks ago.

He liked it, and said he thought it was great that Robert Downey Jr. finally caught a break at the box office.

[Rob H.]

31. Great. Another whackaloon who thinks

"The Flintstones" was a documentary. Just what we need. :eyes:

[OneGrassRoot]

32. McCain-Palin: The Theoconservative Party

Destroying the Constitution One Prayer at a Time

[theothersnippywshrub]

34. If God had meant republicans to vote He would have given them candidates. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. Nobody Knows The Date Of The "Second Coming"

But the belief there will be a "Second Coming" is a staple of main stream Christianity...I don't think we want to be in a position of mocking all of them...

[denem]

37. Agreed, But who wants a president looking for "signs of Jesus returning"

guiding her every day?

[libnnc]

36. Whack-A-Doodle

:crazy: