Tue
Dec 22 2009
08:48 pm
By: Factchecker
This may be a modern day John Bean, but it's pretty darn funny. Then again, it's hard to tell with today's Republicans. Might just be a new centrist in the Palin party.
"How hard did you pray because I see one of our members was missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? One of our members died? How hard did you pray senator? Did you pray hard enough?" he continued, his voice breaking.
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Praise the lord!
That's hilarious. I often drive through Waycross, and it's a fairly depressed looking town, but there's a big billboard over the main road proclaiming the local citizenry's opposition to the United Nations and One World Government.
Maybe we aren't quite that insane here in this neck of JeezuzWorld.
Did you hear what came
Did you hear what came first? They prayed that Sen. Byrd would die! Who the hell were they praying to?
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To Yahweh, of course!
They were praying to Yahweh, the vengeful god of the Old Testament. Conservatives never seem to have made it all that far into the New Testament, with its peace and love and good poor folks and bad rich folks, etc. Plus there's this JC guy who seems to be some kind of dirty hippy.
Better to stick with that more authoritarian deity who digs on Shock and Awe.
NOT!
Those of us who only believe in what you call the "Old Testament" sure don't see the actions of these narrow-minded zealots the same way you project it to be! And I would bet if you ask those who attended the prayer vigils, all would profess to be devout followers of the JC to whom you refer.
The Torah...
The Torah is filled with vicious awful immorality, and much of it comes direct from god. Yet somehow Jews have managed to moderate the awfulness of that content and escape from it to modernity. (OK, not all Jews, not the ultra-Orthodox who stone cars in Jerusalem.)
Some Christians (especially in America and especially in the South), despite scripture that is far more accepting, merciful, and forgiving, have somehow managed to return to the us-against-them kill-the-Samaritan tribal theology of the Israelites.
Both seem to me to be reinventions of god in their own images.
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The really weird thing about
The really weird thing about this is that the Republican senator isn't the least bit phased by someone praying for someone else's death. Guess it's routine business.
. . . all would profess to
Devout indeed
from Matthew 6 (King James Version)
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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This call was clearly a
This call was clearly a hoax. "Tea Partiers" do not refer to themselves as "teabaggers" or as members of a "tea bag group."
The Senator from Wyoming is nonetheless remiss for not chastising the caller for praying (allegedly) for his colleague's demise.
Eventually...
... I came to the same conclusion.
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