Illumination

I think I can offer light to both of your posts... 1) I know where the "You're not letting people be blessed by helping you" thing came from, it's from a very popular Christian book out called "90 minutes in Heaven". Don't take offense. I've seen his flavor of person many a time, what he's trying to do is just inappropriate familiarity. He figures since he's your brother in Christ, he's qualified to support you and give you counsel, etc. Which is true, to a point... there is a reason we are called to fellowship. BUT I agree, he's over the line. Again, appropriate behavior in a friend or someone who was in your small fellowship group, or even in your church if you had a small enough church. It's not just among Christians that people try inappropriate familiarity to make friends or show that they are friendly people. (Culturally this would be I guess Texan or Southern? It's not really Californian, but I can see as a Canadian/Mennonite that it would freak you out totally).

As for the conservative Christians and Palin, they fall into two camps. One is the camp that is just so happy to see someone living SOME of the morals they say that they live by (and abortion is a huge huge deal here) that they'll ignore the whole "woman in power" thing, if in fact they have it on the radar at all. Mostly I think they don't have it on radar. (On radar-in their awareness field).

The other camp can be found in plentitude here: http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/
They give much the same arguments that you do.

I don't think it's as much logic as trying to sell yourself the lesser of two evils, for those who are Christians in politics. And of course we can't be so anti-PC as to say that women can't be in charge... nope. ;)

Insofar as I'm concerned, a woman is free to exercise temporal power over men, but not over her husband. I'm not about to obey some random man just because he's MALE. No thanks. My spiritual concerns with Palin would be more the ethical questions and uses of power that seem to be cropping up. (So she's good on abortion, but what about everything else?). And if she DID end up as President, what about her hubby? (I would be much happier if she was 20 years older, widowed, and didn't have the ethical questions - I think I'd be quite enthusiastic about her in that case).

It doesn't matter who I vote for for President, the electoral college system ensures that all the votes in Cali will be going to Obama anyway. (sigh)

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