Daily Kos Attacks McCain’s Faith Claim
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If you don’t believe in something - you will fall for anything
John McCain’s Web site has responded to an attack from what it calls the “most vicious corner of the Internet” that impugns his memories of his prisoner of war years.
According to the site, “liberal bloggers at the Daily Kos” have accused McCain of plagiarizing from Russian writer and Gulag denizen Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who told of a prisoner who drew a cross in the dirt in a Soviet prison camp. McCain told of a guard who drew a cross in the dirt in a Vietnamese POW camp.
McCain’s site points out: “The only similarity between the two stories is a cross in the dirt, but it is hardly an unlikely coincidence that there were practicing Christians in both Russia and Vietnam, or that in the prisons of those two Communist countries the only crosses to be found were etched in the dirt, as easily disappeared as the Christians who drew them.
“But those desperate to discredit Senator McCain’s record will have to impugn his fellow prisoners as well.”
The site refers to Orson Swindle, who was held as a prisoner of war along with McCain. He told the McCain Report that he heard the cross in the dirt story from McCain as early as the summer of 1971, “when we first moved in together.”
The article on McCain’s site, headlined “Smears the Left Can Fight For,” observes: “It may be typical of the pro-Obama to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others…
“As Swindle said, this is a ‘desperate group of people trying to make something out of nothing.’”
Since the earliest days of Christianity the faithful, suffering vicious persecution have found such ways to show their faith to others in the most desperate circumstances. It is unlikely that those absent such faith but clinging to militant faithless secularist views would understand or even admit to anyone taking such risks for their faith.
