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NoahJ 
Steal a religion? How does one do that exactly?
In Christianity's case I suppose it merely co-opts the Holy Scriptures of a religion thousands of years older and lumps them together with their own new ones and gives the whole thing a new name after changing bits it doesn't like.
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As for the anthropomorphic question, whether or not this is true (and not being a scholar of Judaism I cannot say), they were called on their overzealous rules and regulations. To say that God has hands would follow us being made in his image. The Bible, both Old and New Testament speak to of God having physical characteristics of holding us in his hands in multiple places. So no, I do not accept your interpretation of what is blasphemous.
You might want to try veering away from the literal too while you are about it.
I have heard it said that the literalist mindset is a rather limited one. The Taleban would certainly bear that out and their fundie-Xian counterparts don't do much better.
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What is unbelievable is that you find this worthy of getting worked up over. If she had claimed that God himself wrote it on her hand, perhaps....
Not really worked up. Palin is not worth it it's true....what she stands for IS though I think...bit like when they had segregation...people couldn't see what people were 'worked up over' then either...happens now today too now I come to think of it with torture and 'frat-house hazing' which brings us full circle as that is pretty much the sort of view Palin has - with or without bring God into it (which, you're right, is a blasphemy when speaking of her ilk).
