I was struck by this passage in Palin's interview with wingnuttia media personage Hugh Hewitt yesterday:
"Do you think the mainstream media and the left understands your religious faith, Governor Palin?" Hewitt asked.
"I think that there's a lot of mocking of my personal faith," she said. "And my personal faith is very, very simple. I don't belong to any church. I do have a strong belief in God, and I believe that I'm a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God's hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me. What else do we have but guidance that we would seek from a Creator? That's about as simple as it gets with my faith, and I think that there is a lot of mocking of that.
Now, this seems weird to me. She belongs to no church. We all know she left that Wasilla Assembly of God church, the one where she was shielded from witchcraft and such.
But not belonging to a church? A darling of the religious right? Is that cool? So she just, like, prays at home? I really think that if I were deeply religious, the possibility or seeming likelihood (by this account) that she doesn't go to church would really bother me.
Needless to say, if she were a baby-killing socialistic nanny-stater, obviously the fact that she didn't belong to church would condemn her for eternity in the eyes of the very people who now get goo-goo eyed just looking at her. The hypocrisy of it is at once flabbergasting and so banal that's barely even worth dwelling on. So I'll stop here.
