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Christian Writer Blasts My "Sarah Palin: Dinosaurs Coexisted With Dinosaurs"

By Robert Paul Reyes

In seems like Sarah Palin's highly lauded acceptance speech at the Republican convention was eons ago, but it was a scant few weeks ago.

After disastrous interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric, Palin's support has eroded, even a few conservative columnists have turned against her with a vengeance.

However, Palin's support with her evangelical base remains rock-solid, as evidenced by the feedback that I received when one of my anti-Palin articles was mentioned on a Christian Web site.

I recently wrote an essay for NewsBlaze entitled "Sarah Palin: Dinosaurs Coexisted With Dinosaurs", and it elicited a few comments, most of them positive.

My Palin essay was recently referenced by a writer for a Christian-oriented Web site: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=271028 The writer, Jim Brown didn't provide a link to my column, nor did he provide my email address or name the Web Site that published my editorial. Nevertheless, I received over twenty emails from irate evangelicals blasting me for attacking a woman of God.

In addition to the emails I received several comments were posted on the site lambasting me and supporting Sarah Palin. This is a sample of one of the comments:

"Internet columnist Robert Paul Reyes who branded Palin a 'religious fanatic' with a 'Neanderthal faith' needs to visit the Creation Museum in Ohio to see for himself how many of us "fanatics" there are! I visited the museum this past summer. It was standing room only! I felt as though I was at a concert trying to get through the sea of people who attended. And, unlike a concert, everyone was polite, kind, and respectful to one another. It was an amazing experience and a terrific opportunity for my daughter to get the other side of this story."

It's scary that there is a museum dedicated to the notion that dinosaurs and human beings coexisted. It's even more scary that when the media points out the shortcomings and inexperience of Palin, it also serves to energize her evangelical base.

I will never convince Palin's evangelical supporters that she is the most unqualified candidate ever to run for vice-president, but hopefully I have opened the eyes of a few persons who don't support Palin simply because she's an evangelical Christian.

Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.