The Washington Post’s “faith” writer (and former author of “The Party” column until she penned a column airing her family’s conflicts and after complaints by her own family was demoted to writing on faith) and beltway hostess Sally Quinn says that Norway murderer Anders Breivik is a Christian because doggone it, he says he is!

“Well I say the guy’s a Christian! He talks about Jesus Christ our Lord, he actually says ‘I am a Christian …’”

To borrow from the “Merchant of Venice,” “Even the Devil can cite Scripture.”

Quinn launches into a bizarre monologue about terrorism and Christianity and Oslo and who knows what else; honestly, I began losing interest when O’Reilly demanded that she produce a Breivik quote on Jesus and Quinn had to shuffle through her talking points.

Had Quinn perhaps skipped a party or two and did her due diligence on her subject she would have learned that not only is Breivik most emphatically not a Christian, but he’s also an environmental-worshipping socialist — the absolute opposite of what the progressives and the Soros News peddled in the press before the bodies of Norway’s fallen had grown cold:

The Judeo-Christian religions played an important and influential role in building the once mighty West but we also discovered that these religions contained aserious flaw that has sewed the seeds of the suicidal demise of the indigenous peoples of Western Europe and our cultures. This flaw was identified by the brilliant German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who described it as “an inversion of morality” whereby the weak, the poor, the meek, the oppressed and the wretched are virtuous and blessed by God … pg. 391

A pragmatic approach, which involves acknowledging the primal aspects of man for the purpose of preparing him for a martyrdom operation, should always take precedence over misguided piety … pg. 1434

Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers -already, you see, the world had already fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing Christianity!-then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. pg. 231

I’m not going to pretend I’m a very religious person as that would be a lie. pg. 1344

Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christian. pg. 1307, 3,139

A “cultural Christian?” Such a thing doesn’t exist in Scripture. There is grace through faith and a relationship with Christ, grace that one does not achieve alone. What Breivik preaches is humanism, not Christianity. He believes he can achieve grace alone, thus a relationship with Christ is unnecessary. The lowliest pseudo-scholar would recognize this if they are true to their intelligence, which Quinn is not, either by choice or pure ignorance.

Quinn has spent the better part of her “faith-writing” taking partisan jabs at conservatives.

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She was once a star reporter for the Style section. Then she made the big career move and married the boss. Today Sally Quinn is the “doyenne” of Washington, a celebrity in her own right and a fixture of the D.C. social set. And although she’s never had an original thought in her head — by the time Quinn gets around to it, it’s long since solidified into conventional wisdom –

– alas, she also still writes.

About “faith,” no less, having once bellied up to the communion rail in a Catholic church and partaking of the Eucharist, even though she’s not Catholic. (Her “co-moderator” of the “On Faith” column is none other than Jon Meacham, the man who drove Newsweek into a ditch, where it was recently auctioned off for a buck plus parts.)

A mosque near Ground Zero? Who’s going to pay for it? Where are they getting the money?

This is the cry of the conspiracy theorists who claim that the mosque will be built with suspicious money, including charities possibly connected to terrorism. Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are intensely opposed to the mosque. They want it to be moved. I have a great idea. Why don’t they find a new property and personally raise the money themselves to fund the $100 million community center? They could call the project The Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich Foundation for Religious Freedom. It has a nice ring to it. I think they should put their money where their mouths are. Nothing could be more patriotic or American; it’s what this country is all about. It would take, especially with Palin’s popular following, probably 20 minutes to collect the amount needed.

Even by the current low standards of excellence that obtain at the kiddie-corps-run WaPo, this is breathtakingly fatuous. By now, it’s clear that the denizens of the Beltway look upon Sarah Palin the way the inhabitants of Constantinople viewed the Muslim hordes during the final siege of eastern Christendom.

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