Posted on September 16, 2010

Wow, the Tea Partiers just make it so damned easy to ridicule them. Just when you thought nobody could make Sarah Palin look informed by comparison, along comes Christine O’Donnell, the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Delaware, she of the “masturbation is a sin” school of evangelical Christian silliness. O’Donnell is such an extreme religious whack-a-doodle that she actually thinks it is always wrong to lie, including LYING TO HITLER ABOUT HAVING JEWS IN YOUR HOUSE during World War Two. That’s right, O’Donnell would apparently think the folks who hid Anne Frank and her family were being “deceptive” and “disrespectful” to the Nazis by not being honest.

But just to make sure everyone knows that she isn’t really on Hitler’s side in the scenario, she offers her spin as to how she could get out of the dilemma (cuz, ya know, it’s a dilemma: lie to a mass murderer and his henchmen or tell the truth and get people killed, hmmm…what do I do?): namely, she would rely on God…because, in that situation, GOD would naturally come to her aid, and show her “the way” out of the jam.

OK, Christine, so let me get this straight: God would intervene to protect YOU from having to tell a lie. But apparently, God wouldn’t and didn’t intervene to actually STOP Hitler in the first place?!? So your precious integrity means more to God than the lives of millions of people? This is the bottom line: those who believe they have angels on their shoulders and that God is their co-pilot and all this other crap are seriously giving any potential deity a bad name. Because if God really operates the way Christine O’Donnell suggests, then God is a real asshole. Period.

* After initially titling this entry with the word “crazy” instead of “stupid,” several folks brought to my attention a very reasonable criticism that the wording, and certain other references in the original text were ableist with regard to mentally disabled folks. I think they were right. I have thus changed the title and removed the offending text. I appreciate the input.