She said her “date” was “on the altar.” If that means she was giving up the booty to a priest, that is news.
My objection was not to the use of the word “altar,” by the way, but to her characterization of it as “Satanic.” There is no “Satanic” anything in neo-paganism, so either she was making it up or she wasn’t paying attention.
It’s also possible that it was one lone idiot just making stuff up trying to impress her, and built his own altar, I guess, and she turned one anecdote about a weird date into “I dabbled in witchcraft and saw a Satanic altar.”
I have already conceded that this is possible, but in that case it’s still dishonest for her to say she “dabbled in witchcraft” if she literally never learned the first thing about it.
Remember, too, that O’Donnell is a Catholic-turned-Evangelical. The born-agains LOOOOVE this kind of thing. Half of the “witnessing” you hear from them consists of how awful and wicked and evil they were before their conversion…drugs and sex and witchcraft and buggery and puppy-kicking abound.
ETA: And it’s usually some juicy tidbits, too. You almost never hear someone confess to having been an embezzler or a tax cheat or having eaten a hot dog on a Friday during Lent. It’s always sordid, trashy, soap-opera stuff. Conversion-porn, if you will…
i am sure it was in the context of the fundamentalist belief that all pagan religions are from Satan. I am sure she thinks Islam is Satanic for the same reason. The fact that the adherents don’t actually worship Satan is irrelevant, because they are being deceived by Satan. Judaism gets a pass, because it’s in the bible.
This is true. Some of the revival services and other witnessing events I’ve seen practically turn into a contest over who was the most wild and reckless character before they got Jesus. For the guys, it almost comes off like a backdoor way to do impress chicks with the bad boy" thing without really having to be one. They were all running their own gangs and were drug lords on a par with Scarface. They all had sex with thousands of women non-stop and were total bad asses who were feared by other criminals, etc.Then they got Jesus and that turned them into the soft little putzes standing before you now.
And they were all atheists, too, of course. And they could all out-debate Christians about it before they got Jesus.
More to the point, Judaism gets a pass because the Biblical literalists require the Jews to return to a resurgent Israel in order for the Second Coming to happen. The fact that the Jews then have a convert-or-fry-forever Hobson’s choice to make is just a delicious bonus for the Biblits…
People, the reason for this is obvious. The right always claims to want smaller government, yet have never accomplished this even when in power, so they have decided on another tactic. Elect the stupidest people they can and once there are enough of them in power the government will collapse, and shrink, all on its own because of it.
I don’t think the witchcraft thingy will get any traction, and trying to parse something she said 11 years ago about what she did when she was in high school is a fool’s errand.
She’s got some pretty heavy baggage in other areas, though, concerning how she got her degree and what she did with past campaign funds. Then, there’s her ultra-social conservative agenda in pretty middle of the road Delaware, and she’s got some work cut out for her. The GOP PR machine is going to have to get cracking if she is to have any chance of winning.
I can’t see her taking much, if any, of the spotlight off Palin nationally. She’ll have her moment in the spotlight, and if she loses the election, she’ll be toast. Maybe Look for her on Dancing with the Stars, which seems to be the new Hollywood Squares.
It is SO unfair of you you to hold a nitwit like her normal standards of honesty and dishonesty. She probably believes Jesus actually speaks to her, while you and I know that, at best, it’s a chemically induced hallucination.
The point of the witcraft dabbeling thing is that she has shown herself to be an attention whore; someone who will say anything to keep the camera on them and then say it was all just for kicks. Think about it; could you see George W going on a live nationwide show in 1982 talking about his drug and alcohol abuse? And then having the nerve to run for any political office? This biatch is an attention whore.
The fact that O’Donnel wasn’t prepared for this type of crap enough to go on the talk shows and defend her position without having to meet with her coven of spin masters first shows that she dosen’t have what it takes to be in any political office; let alone the US Senate.
If O’Donnell loses, the Tea Partiers will see it as more proof that the mainstream media and liberal elites are against them. That will convince them how just and right their beliefs are. This will cause them to put forward more candidates, in more elections, promising more tax cuts.
The same thing will happen if O’Donnell wins and America doesn’t become (their kind of) paradise.
She probably believes Jesus actually speaks to her, while you and I know that, at best, it’s a chemically induced hallucination.