Soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-04-13 06:51pm

If I were a soldier, I'd be praying that the C-in-C pulls his head out of his ass.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-04-13 11:42pm

That's it! Can we please get rid of this right-wing nutcase before it's too late?![/i]

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-04-13 11:45pm

JME2 wrote:That's it! Can we please get rid of this right-wing nutcase before it's too late?![/i]

I think its already too late Muslim fundies are chanting "Death To America" louder now.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-04-14 12:35am

"Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding"

Doesn't that basically mean that they're saying the president is an idiot? After all, he shouldn't be relying on his own understanding.

h0rus · Post by **h0rus** » 2004-04-14 01:06am

"The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches."

Nice touch by that link. 'his God'. Finally someone who clarifies that it is merely his belief.

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2004-04-14 01:20am

I'd just like to point out that the linked article is over a year old.

I remember hearing about it, and the outrage, back then.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-04-14 01:39am

neoolong wrote:"Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding"

Doesn't that basically mean that they're saying the president is an idiot? After all, he shouldn't be relying on his own understanding.

No, it means they should go with whatever gut feeling they get after praying instead of making a rational decision. After all, only godless fools use their own understanding. Why not just elect a prophet? That way we could skip the middleman and put God's very own sock puppet in power.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-14 01:49am

Theocralicious!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-04-14 01:53am

Lazy Raptor wrote:
neoolong wrote:"Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding"

Doesn't that basically mean that they're saying the president is an idiot? After all, he shouldn't be relying on his own understanding.
No, it means they should go with whatever gut feeling they get after praying instead of making a rational decision. After all, only godless fools use their own understanding. Why not just elect a prophet? That way we could skip the middleman and put God's very own sock puppet in power.

I know, I just found it funny that they basically, ignore your brain.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-04-14 02:04am

neoolong wrote:I know, I just found it funny that they basically, ignore your brain.

It's funny to outsiders and followers of different faiths, yes. But fundamentalists really, really do show a mixture of pity and contempt for people who rely on rational thought.

Sometimes I wonder how a philosophy so totally foreign and alien to the status-quo can somehow worm its way into every facet of civilization...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-04-14 02:09am

Okay, that should say, "basically say."
Perhaps the reliance on not thinking is really appealing to some people.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-04-14 09:53pm

Why are so many people here automatically assuming this crap came down from Shrub himself? Sure, Bush is a rabid fundie, but the article gives no indication that he had any involvment with this leaflet...

BTW, here is the website of the organization that concocted that filth.

+http://www.intouch.org/

In Touch Ministries is run by a certain Rev. Charles Stanley, whose church is in Atlanta, Georgia.

My (fundie) father, mother and sister watch his broadcast religeously (pun intended) every Sunday at 8:00PM (the same time I am watching The Simpsons down here in the basement

).

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-04-14 09:59pm

Ma Deuce wrote:Why are so many people here automatically assuming this crap came down from Shrub himself? Sure, Bush is a rabid fundie, but the article gives no indication that he had any involvment with this leaflet...

BTW, here is the website of the organization that concocted that filth.

+http://www.intouch.org/

In Touch Ministries is run by a certain Rev. Charles Stanley, whose church is in Atlanta, Georgia.

My (fundie) father, mother and sister watch his broadcast religeously (pun intended) every Sunday at 8:00PM (the same time I am watching The Simpsons down here in the basement ).

"SINNER" watching the Simpsons when you could watch high quality brainwashing television