Sarah Palin can dance around the issues all day, but the fact of the matter is she said one thing and now she is saying that she meant quite another. The plain language of her comment is quite clear. She believes that God ordained the war in Iraq. Really? Did he also ordain the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001? Did he ordain slavery? Did he ordain the murder and beheading of Daniel Pearl?

Sarah Palin’s theological views are decidedly dispensational and out of step with traditional Christianity. The scary part of this is that 80% of the Christians in America who see this interview will take her at her word that she was paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln. My guess is that Abraham Lincoln would be rolling over in his grave if he knew that Sarah Palin had concocted such an awful paraphrase.