Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy
Her faith views are strong and sometimes controversial. Her aides say she seeks to share but not impose her faith; her critics say she has 'a fine-tuned sense of how far to push.'
By Stephen Braun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs. Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,".......
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My head is far from being on totally straight but to talk with someone who believes the world is only 6000 years old is like talking with a two year old child. I knew one guy in the National Guard who had all sorts of magical (at least to me) explanations of how people lived so long in the days after Adam, where the water came from for Noah's global flood, and how the dino's didn't make in on the ark. One day when I feel like delving into it I'll write about those beliefs.
Oh yeah, Wiggles declared herself a vegetarian (she is six years old now) and appears it is based in her concern for the welfare of cows and chickens. I have no idea where this came from or how it manifested itself enough for her to take a stand but her concern is genuine. Now she also won't eat shrimp but its less over concern for the little critters and more because she thinks shrimp is yucky. That is something else I will write more about.
hell, i didn't commit until i was about 18. yeah, that's MANY years ago but...........
i know how she feels. i didn't grasp it like SHE did though. i couldn't articulate it at 6. i knew i had a hard time eating it back then (i could NOT eat anything with a bone. i couldn't even let something like that touch my plate).
even though i had issues (i'm ONLY talking about food here THIS TIME) since i was a child, my point of clarity was when i saw a documentary called 'meat'. it was in black and white and that was for a reason. i never looked back
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