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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Larry Thornberry
Liberals are so ceaseless in countering conservative extremism, intolerance,
and incivility with informed and principled inclusiveness, it's hard to
keep up with all the fine examples of their ministry. This one took place at
the recent Democratic séance in Charlotte. Word of it has just reached me.
Mark Alan Siegel, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Palm Beach County,
peeled himself away from the Star Wars Bar long enough to educate a naï
ve reporter under the impression that Christians who say they support Israel
do so because, well, they support Israel and wish the best for Israelis.
Maybe not. Here's Siegel's measured response to a reporter who asked if it
weren't the case that many Christians were friends of Israel: "The
Christians just want us to be there so we can be slaughtered and converted
and bring on the second coming of Jesus Christ. The worst possible allies
for the Jewish state are the fundamentalist Christians who want Jews to die
and convert so they can bring on the second coming of their Lord. It's a
false friendship. They are seeking their own ends and not ours."
Wow. Who knew those Southern Baptists and the happy clappers at the
unaffiliated evangelical church down the block were so Machiavellian? The
gospel according to Mark Allan appears to be that these sneaky folks are
trying to obscure the fact that Israel's real friends are politicians like
our rookie president, who so recently blew off the prime minister of Israel
in order to campaign in Las Vegas. (What happens in Israel stays in Las
Vegas.)
Offensive? Yes, but even more silly. Mark Alan's grip on theology is as
tenuous as Todd Akin's understanding of physiology. So we can take this Palm
Beach wisdom with more than a fistful of salt. How can one not suppress a
smile recalling those scores of Palm Beach County Democrats in November of
2000 who were too dim-witted to follow voting instructions at the level of
complexity of "punch a hole here," and so were forced to vote for Pat
Buchanan. |
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