Thoughts in a Haystack

• spy on citizens' emails and phone calls without having to worry about an earthly judge looking over your shoulder;
• exploit a captive audience at local county council meetings and pray for your buddy’s guidance even if a federal court already said it was illegal to do;
• insert the latest version of the Adam and Eve tale (called Intelligent Design) into our science classes; use your position on the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration to tell women that premenstrual syndrome can be treated with Bible readings, to denounce birth control and to assert that "abstinence" should be the government policy instead; and
• argue in American courts for the authority of the Pope over the wishes of the husband and next-of-kin on the issue of the right to die of a comatose woman in a persistent vegetative state.

Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the bloodiest war Americans ever fought, because it was the one they fought among themselves, knew better than to proclaim that he was a bosom buddy of the Lord:

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

If any man at any time had the right to claim the justice of heaven, it was that man and that cause. And yet he did not. Instead, he invoked malice toward none and charity toward all.

But he was a giant . . .

Link - Posted by John Pieret @ 4:15 PM