Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Mrs Clinton admitted that she prayed but surmised that there was a lot of "rolling of eyes" from God given the "trivial and self-serving" requests her prayers entailed. "I take my faith personally and seriously," she said. "I come from a tradition that is perhaps a little too suspicious of people who wear their faith on their sleeves . . . so a lot of the talk about faith doesn't come naturally to me," she said.

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Her conception of a snarky, impatient, somewhat passive aggressive deity is awfully familiar. It's not unusual for people with an immature and dishonest approach to see the divine as an extension of themselves. Her false modesty gambit in expressing a reluctance to discuss her alleged faith doesn't do much to cover that up. In context, it comes across as yuppie omerta and paranoia. The accidental honesty of confessing to trivializing God with self-serving "requests" doesn't help either. If you respect someone or something, you simply don't do that. I can easily see her petitioning with several thousand page volumes of carefully hedged, thoroughly mendacious and ultimately meretricious legalisms -- perhaps along the lines of that HillaryCare farce. It would be a real coup for her to drag down something so grand and so important to many people. I don't think she can help herself, quite honestly. It's not what I would call evil per se, but it's a banality of the soul and a core contempt for anything good that puts evil well within her reach. In an effort to satisfy the dime's worthers, I would call it a "lesser evil" than Bush's full blown psychotic relationship with the divine and will happily admit that her's has had a lot more thought put into it.