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9.17.08 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Jeffrey Lord's Bashing God by Dissing Sarah:

For sixty-two years my grandfather and grandmother lived together as husband and wife. Each Thanksgiving the children, then the grandchildren and eventually the great grandchildren gathered at the dinner table. My grandfather first carved and then paused to taste the turkey my grandmother had roasted. And each year before serving the rest of us, he remarked, "Florence, I believe this is the best tasting turkey you have ever prepared."

Jeffrey, I believe "Bashing God by Dissing Sarah" is the best column you have ever prepared. I have enjoyed Jeffrey Lord's work -- it seems forever. This piece should be offered for reading to every single person who claims to believe in God. It will separate those who do from those who simply want us to think they do.

Enough said...
-- Mark Merritt
Fiddletown, California

The divisive tone of this article is both ignorant and insulting.

Ignorant of the fact that one can have a liberal social view and still believe in god. And insulting that the author is so closed minded and cynical that he labels good Christians as atheists. While the rest of the country is moving in the direction of hope and faith, right-wing extremists like Mr. Lord continue to desperately cling to the fear and hate speech of the wedge politicos. After he's done reading his White House press releases, how about giving him a time out?
-- M. Hans Liebert
P.S. If she's anyone's Joan of Arc, she's Alaska's. Country First? Tell that to her comrades in the AIP.

Jeffrey Lord's "Bashing God by Dissing Sarah" is truly a great read. It is so hard-hittingly good in my view that if it somehow got to those outside of the regular TAS readership, it would probably create apoplectic fits. This now is truly a remarkable election you're putting on for the world. It's a real fight with real global long-term consequences. I know who I would vote for, in the blink of an eye, if I could!

God bless you America.
-- G. Constable
Sydney, Australia

Thank you for the article. Many of the same ideas expressed in the article have been floating around in my head for some time now, but not as eloquently phrased.
-- Bob Schwartz
Buffalo, New York

What a beautiful piece! I am so happy to be reminded of WFB's statement. Is that from God and Man at Yale?

One small error. I understand that she has for 6 years been a member of an independent Bible Church, no longer Assembly of God. (I've heard she said the AofG was getting a little weird.)
-- H. Hardcastle
Maine

Jeffrey Lord's article struck an eternal chord. Not only is it, as Lord quotes Buckley, a "duel between Christianity and atheism," but also, a more defining spiritual battle between God and His forces and the ones so bitterly in opposition to Him -- Satan and his minions. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Ephesus made the astute and divinely inspired observation that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, ...powers, ...rulers of the darkness of this world, ...spiritual wickedness..." (Ephesians 6:12). For those of us who are orthodox Christians, this is a basic and accepted scriptural tenet. This then makes the Sally Quinns, Matt Damons, and Andrew Sullivans of the world unwitting agents of spiritual darkness and, ultimately, Satan himself. Unfortunately for them, this is a notion they would deride as much as they do Sarah Palin.
-- Jeff Vowell
Memphis, Tennessee

Thank you very much for Jeffrey Lord's latest; I could not agree with him more that the U.S. culture war is, indeed, being fought between believers and unbelievers. The fury and disdain exploding forth from liberals over the candidacy of Gov. Sarah Palin is a bracing reminder about what we believers are up against as we attempt to persuade the country that abortion is wrong; that the U.S. military has been and is a force for good in the world; that same-sex relationships should not be normalized through marriage; that schools should teach our children traditional virtues; and so forth.

I am, surprised, however that Mr. Lord didn't connect one last set of dots.

Just one week ago, he wrote a piece that introduced us to Sally Quinn -- doyenne of the smart set in Washington, D.C., a woman who first got ahead by sleeping with one very powerful man. Her adulterous liaison with Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post, apparently breaking up his marriage, worked wonders for her career and social life -- but is not the kind of thing that churchgoers tend to look upon kindly. The reason? Our God -- as revealed through scripture -- teaches that such behavior is sinful.

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