I talk to God all the time. I pray for the health and safety of my friends and family. I pray that certain situations resolve themselves favorably. Yes, I do consider myself a religious man, yet, I have never been so arrogant, or insane, to claim that I know what God wants. Or what God has told me. I may be able to interpret what God would want. I may even take certain “signs” or subsequent events to be an answer to my prayer, or to be representative of God’s thoughts on a particular subject. Yet, even then, I realize it is only my subjective determination of what God wants, so I would be a fool to declare publicly that I have talked to God and thus know what he wants. Unlike Kent in the movie Real Genius, I have never heard God’s voice.
However, Norm Coleman apparently has heard God’s voice..
When asked about the recount and how it is affecting him personally, Coleman said he starts every day with a prayer and that he knows “God wants me to serve.”
George W. Bush also conversed with the Almighty and was ordered to end the tyranny in Iraq.
Of course, God didn’t want to go to war in Iraq, Bush did. God doesn’t want Norm Coleman in the Senate, Norm Coleman does. These two losers are so desperate to get what they want, that either a) they think God wants what they want, and/or b) they are using God’s supposed wishes as a last and unquestionable justification for getting what they want. For the record, I don’t know what God wants. He may very well wanted Bush to go to war in Iraq for whatever reason. He may very well want Norm Coleman to serve in the Senate. I must say though, that if God really wanted those things, He doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence, given the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and given the fact that Norm Coleman lost the election. And God may in fact oppose all violence, and thus be against going to war in Iraq. Or He may enjoy the comedic stylings of Al Franken and wished to see him in the Senate. Who the hell knows?
Norm Coleman sure doesn’t. His false invocation of God’s will is but one more reason to deny him the Senate seat he rightfully lost in the election.