Jesus and Witches

This is a stupid misleading title as usual. Thanks Newsweek for showing us who you are voting for. I didnt hear dam Amercia i heard bless and make us right and keep from evil. She is being prayed for to keep from corruption even if you dont believe the fact that she is trying to avoid is goo and it wasnt a stunt to get Christian votes it was 3 years ago. She is more seasoned as a cical servant and closer to the people who give there children and money to keep this country from slavery and oppresion which reeks through the rest of the world. Mcain Palin in 08 at least i can just come out and say it and not be chicken.

How sad that our country has journalist that do not believe in the way that Sarah Palin believes and this suddenly makes them the authority on Biblical knowledge. I would encourage the writers of this article to stick with the knowledge that you know, if there is any, and do not tample with the faith that you do not know.

It's funny how John McCain said that he would not make Rev. Wright an issue and now the liberals are attacking Sarah Palin and her church. I know that it was mentioned on FoxNews that some Republican organization was going to start up about Wright even if McCain said he would not. I guess the liberals had to get a jump on them.

One nation under God, yes. One nation under Jesus, no. Members of the government need to keep their religous ideals to themselves. We have enough different issues dividing American citizens & don't need the specifics to candidates faith thrown in our face as another way of dividing us even farther. As someone who is not a Christian but also not an Atheist I do not want those elected to govern basing their decision on their faith. As an elected official it is your duty to represent your constituents and that means voting based on how your constituents would want you to. Not just voting along party lines or based on what you believe is in line with your religous beliefs. There is a reason why we have separation of church and state.

Please, please, please get off Sarah Palin. Why are your journalists (big question here if they can be called that) harping on one thing and one thing only throughout this campaign. Last time I checked there are TWO parties and and TWO sides that should be reported. Why is it that you seem to not be able to do any digging or reporting that might bring Obama's beliefs into question? Seems llke bias to me. Don't believe that I real read Newsweek again. Not very accurate.

I have read many of the post here and so many of them, from the extreme religious right, have proven what I have believed in all along and that is there is little love and tolerence from them. Only hatefullness and fear preaching. No other opinion or idea is respected by those. If you don't believe in the way they believe, then you're dead wrong and will burn in hell. And yes, if Sarah Palin ever gained any kind of power at all, it would be without equal rights for all in our great country. That kind of thinking would take away constitutional rights and further promote a hate-mongoring, judgemental society. Palin and McCain say they want less government? Only when it fits their beliefs, it seems. But they certainly would have the government jump right in there in restricting equal rights for EVERYONE.
It's not important to me what Sarah Palin's religious beliefs are, but more importantly whay kind of knowledge she has and she has proven time and again she just doesn't get it. She continues to mistate words from other people, twisting her information to her views...ie. Madelin Albright. It just seems the fanatics are all to eager to defend Palin. If a person's religious beliefs are so strong and sure, then why do they continually have to defend themselves? Isn't the basic Christain belief supposed to be one of love and tolerance...forgiving and being non-judgemental? I guess not, as it shows thru on so many of these post.

Teresa001, It's unfortunate that you do not yet understand God's Grace. I would encourage you to seek God's truth about becoming a Christian and your subsequent walk with God. Our "good works" have nothing to do with going to Heaven and therefore your comment about doing enough to make it to heaven is sadly wrong. Christ's gift of salvation is just that, a gift. No one has earned it and no one can. To say that any of us and our works are good enough to get into heaven is to say that God can accept some sin and not other sin. The fact is that God cannot be in the presence of any sin ant that is why we are washed from it when we accept Christ. My contention is that when we accept the gift of salvation, we are new creations in Christ and assured of our place in heaven. As a result of this transformation, we will bear good fruits or as you like reference good works. Doing good enough is not an avenue to salvation, but rather a result, or product of being saved and walking with Christ. I don't mean to preach, but rather share what God has revealed to me through scripture and prayer with others. We also know that the bible is 100% truth and completely accurate. This means that thus far everything in the bible either has come to true or will. No one has been able to deny this, or we would hear about it all the time. Therefore when the bible says certain things will happen in the "end times" I believe it without reservation. The author of this article mocks Mrs. Palin for her beliefs and mocks "crazy end time scenarios" . This is yet another example of a prophecy that is coming true in that Christians will be persecuted for thier beliefs. Our success as a nation has been a sole result of creating system of Government based on Christian principles strait out of the Bible. Not to mean that our government be run by a particular denomination "seperation of church and state" but that our leadership and direction was historically guided by our belief in God. Do you think it is a coincident that the moral degredation of society and our own democratic system is coming unraveled in direct proportion to our denial of God and shoving him out of our schools, court systems, and government branches. No, we should worry about those government leaders in power who do not seek guidance from God rather than ridicule those that do.

Oh please! Can't you people do yur job and find out what Obama is hiding with The L.A. Times? This is another desperate move on the extreme, left-wing media's behalf. Just like FactCheck--who is owned by......none other than the Annenberg's!!! We smell a huge rat.....or a pig. Soon this country will be a monarchy and you will be bowing to your King Hussein. disgusting. Oh-btw-How is that Sand Sculpture in Barcelona coming?

Your comments on the religious beliefs of Palin disgusted me. Not about her but about YOU. We as the American public are not as stupid as you think that we are. We know the tricks that you journalists play. Especially when you have an adgneda. It is a known fact that the things that have been spouted from the pulpit of the church that Obama has frequented have been all over the news as well. Your article is obviousely an attempt to down play that in the media. The truth is that it is not Obama's religious beliefs are in question but the political views that are stated in those sermons. It stuns me that you can find an ounce of contempt for the fact that Palin actually prays for our country. I for one pray that the people that are in the offices of our government DO pray for our country. I am not even close to having the same religious beliefs as Palin but I am a Christian that belives that the Bible is the word of God. The Bible undoubtedly contains scriptures about Jesus himself casting out evil spirits. God is an unchanging God. If there were evil spirits back in Biblical times, then I am certain that they exist today. I am not saying that I agree with the way that her church goes about dealing with it or if they are even qualified TO deal with it, but that is none of my business and it's not yours either. The last time I checked we lived in a country that we were free to believe how, where, and what we may!

What's wrong with this? You've got to be kidding me. She fell just short of calling the current Iraq war a religious war .... having state that the war is a mission from god. The last thing we want to incite in the middle east is just that. Of course radical muslim groups already view it that way, but we don't need leaders of this country acknowledging that radical view point and throwing more fuel on a delicate state of affairs. There is a seperation of church and state in this country for good reason and our leaders have to acknowledge that top to bottom in any kind of diplomacy that takes place. Sarah Palin the pipeline in your state is not the will of god, the Iraq war is not the will of god. Religion is a personal thing and it needs to stay out of government .... lest we have a president that moronically escalates the wars in the middle east to a full blown Jihad.