What Does God Need With a Political Starship?

Faith and politics are not strangers in America, but this is coming at it a tad high. Did we as a people learn nothing from Star Trek V?

“Returning from a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, I asked the pilots of the Marine One helicopter if I could photograph from the cockpit as we approached the White House.” 7 March 2014 Official White House Photo by Pete Souza via White House Flickr stream [Public Domain]

With the President’s fortunes in the election, in court, and just about everywhere else going poorly, there has been an upswell in his supporters making appeals to a higher authority to try change the tides of fate.

“We seriously, sincerely cry out to you,” former Congresswoman & presidential candidate Michele Bachmann prayed on a tweeted video: “We ask you, O God, for deliverance, that our country may continue to know freedom. Would you deliver these races in Georgia, O Father? Would you deliver various local and state races, Father … and O God, I personally ask, for myself, Michele Bachmann, Lord, would you allow Donald Trump to have a second term as president of the United States?”

Faith and politics are not strangers in America, but this is coming at it a tad high. Fearing that many of those who heard his words of reconciliation in his second inaugural address would not heed them, Abraham Lincoln wrote, “Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them”. He was proven right, although he wouldn’t live to see it. And apparently…