{"id":210,"date":"2008-08-31T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/08\/what-kind-of-christian-is-pali.html"},"modified":"2008-08-31T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T13:06:16","slug":"what-kind-of-christian-is-pali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/08\/what-kind-of-christian-is-pali.html","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Christian is Palin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The always-shrewd Jeff Weiss at the Dallas Morning Newsy characterizes her as <a href=\"http:\/\/religionblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/more-about-sarah-palins-religi.html\"><\/a>a post-denominational Christian.<br \/>\nDoug Weed, a Bush friend, notes that Palin not only helps with evangelicals <a href=\"http:\/\/dougwead.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/29\/what-is-sarah-palins-religion\/\">but with Pentecostals <\/a>in particular, who have been especially cool to McCain.<br \/>\nHe also raises a very good political point: if Democrats start attacking her as a Creationist yokel, it will un-do much of Obama&#8217;s faith outreach.  In fact, this is almost inevitable that some liberal bloggers will do just that and the Republicans will gather up every one of those Christian-mocking quotes to prove that the Republicans respect them and Democrats don&#8217;t.  For Obama to avoid this fate, he&#8217;s probably going to do a Sister Souljah on those Democrats who mock Palin, specifically coming to her defense on matters of faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The always-shrewd Jeff Weiss at the Dallas Morning Newsy characterizes her as a post-denominational Christian. Doug Weed, a Bush friend, notes that Palin not only helps with evangelicals but with Pentecostals in particular, who have been especially cool to McCain. 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