Chris Matthews is scared. Scared that the U.S. (The same U.S. that just elected a radical left quasi-marxist abortion proponent who thinks that babies are punishments and sin is violating his own beliefs) is on the brink of Theocracy. I kid you not.
Chris is shocked by the “troubling” mention of God, in public! In PUBLIC!
What has Matthews’ drawers all twisted? Well it is this quote from budding ayatollah, Sarah Palin.
We are gonna have a 2012. I don’t know who’s gonna be a part of it. You know I, I, faith is a very big part of my life and putting, putting my life in my creator’s hands. This is what I always do in life. Okay God if there is an open door for me somewhere – this is what I always pray — I’m like don’t let me miss the open door. And if there is an open door in ’12 or four years later and if it’s something that’s gonna be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.
Yup, that’s it. That is the money quote. This is Matthew’s hysterical (in more ways than one) reaction. It is truly something to behold.
Is, is this commentary about theocracy and going to God for approval. We’ve been through that with President Bush who said he, “didn’t take advice from his father, he got it from another father.” And we’ve been through this sort of Joan of Arc period. Are we gonna get another piece of this where God’s leading candidates to run for president? I mean that sort of keeps us out of the conversation doesn’t it? I mean, seriously, I mean God is telling her to run? And she’s saying it openly on a secular television show? This isn’t the religious hour.
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Talking about God, in a political setting is troubling to a lot of people. If you’re talking about a big tent, this looks more like the church tent, not the big tent.
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She said she was waiting to get the okay from God. Now I have nothing wrong with prayer, I pray all the time.[Ha..haha…hahaha…] But to talk about that in secular environment. To talk about that in a country which is so broad in its different views of Jesus, in fact, is that a good political move? To talk about God and whether you should run getting the okay from him? Didn’t we have enough of that in the last eight years? God leading our politics? Self-selected views of God?
Chris Matthews is a lunatic. Pure and simple. She said that this is at least four years away, let’s see where we are then. If God opens that door, perhaps I will give it a shot. My life is in God’s hands. That’s it. Newsflash Chris, this is how normal people of faith think and talk, even in public. She never said that she was waiting for God’s ok, she said four years is a long time, let’s see what happens. It’s in God’s hands. This hysterical hand wringing, claiming a Joan of Arc syndrome, worrying openly about theocracy, all because she had the gall to mention God in public and actually mean it.
You can come out on TV, you can admit affairs on TV, you can cry on TV, and you can lie on TV and the Ordinary Ministers of the media woudn’t bat an eye. In fact, they would talk openly about how such candor would likely help your candidacy. Mention God and mean it, and you are branded a wild eyed religious lunatic unworthy of public office.
Chris, really, this is how people who actually believe in God think. This is how people who actually believe in God talk. She is a normal person who understands that her journey here could end tomorrow. It is in God’s hands, always has been. She understands this as simply true and is thus not the least bit embarrassed saying so in public.
One piece of advice Mr. Matthews, since you pray all the time, ask God for some perspective. You lost it somewhere along the way.
ht to Newsbusters
November 12, 2008 at 4:00 am
Maybe Chris’ prayer is for all the people who pray to God and publicly talk about it to shut up and go away. The fact that it’s not being answered must be interfering with the tingles going up his leg, causing a neurological short circuit.
November 12, 2008 at 4:27 am
You can yell “G** D***n America” and they’ll ignore it, too.
November 12, 2008 at 5:35 am
Chris really is out of his mind. He took a simple statement of faith and twisted it into something practically evil. There might just be a backlash to the rampant secularism of the media in four years, and the Chris Matthews of the world will have only themselves to blame.
November 12, 2008 at 8:03 am
I actually saw this today in one of the few times I now watch MSNBC (actually just wanted to see how CM would piss me off) and I caught his “What??!!” statment after the footage of Palin’s interview. I immediatley blocked that ridiculous channel from my cable box. MSNBC and CM is dead to me.
November 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Matthews declares himself one who prays in a public forum! I am shocked and offended that someone like Matthews in the public eye would see fit to shove his religion down my throat.
November 12, 2008 at 2:12 pm
that’s a good parry gleb. Nice one.
November 12, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Maybe Chris should get his bible out . . .
Matt 10 :32- 33
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.
But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.
November 12, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Maybe someone should break it to Chris Matthews… but God is not particularly interested in preserving a secular environment.
November 12, 2008 at 5:06 pm
He was educated at Holy Cross, not a Catholic college. Ya can’t expect much in the way of theology from him.
November 12, 2008 at 5:36 pm
In an interview with Cathleen Falsani President-elect Obama said he “has an ongoing conversation with God.” Whatever you think of Obama, or his faith, we people of faith can say that this is a good thing, right? But Matthews isn’t ranting and raving over this, is he? And so we have arrived at the real issue. It’s not about faith or secularism or the separation clause, it’s about party politics . . . and insanity 😉
November 12, 2008 at 11:01 pm
If Chris doesn’t want to get out his Bible (assuming he has one), how about a copy of the Declaration of Independence (assuming he has one)? It is the founding document of the United States, and defines our nation with more authority than any other written or spoken statement. It clearly states up front that our right to exist as a nation derives from God, our Creator. So how is referring to God inappropriate in our political discourse? It is not inappropriate and we have that in writing. Kit.
November 13, 2008 at 12:19 am
You havn’t heard the best one yet:
SENATORIAL RUN IN 2010 for the Alan Specter Seat in PA!
November 13, 2008 at 2:28 am
I can’t even listen to Matthews anymore. I think he has completely gone round the bend, and that was BEFORE his leg started tingling.
The only reason to watch MSNBC is Joe Scarborough’s Morning Joe program, in which he generally has a balanced cast of commentators, including Pat Buchanan. Scarborough really hammered Matthews recently when the latter said he thought it was his job to help make the new president a success:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/11/06/odd-job-matthews-says-his-role-make-obama-presidency-success
What a yo yo. I can’t believe Matthews actually thought he was a good candidate to fill Tim Russert’s shoes.
Not. Even. Close.
November 13, 2008 at 3:00 am
May the God bless you all!!!nice post about god!
November 13, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Yet another exemplary Catholic….