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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/11/2008 : 02:48:34
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And here we have it: The more theocratic elements of the Religious Right have a disturbing habit, (more like a practice) of invoking "imprecatory prayer" -- a call for God to literally pour his wrath down on those they consider to be his enemies. Last year, for example, Rev. Wiley Drake, then a Second Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention made news when he called on his followers to pray for God to smite members of the staff of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. (Drake was angry that the organization had reported Drake to the IRS for endorsing Mike Huckabee on church stationary, among other apparent abuses of his church's 501(c))(3) tax-exemption.)
The most recent target of theoractic imprecations is none other than Republican presidential candidate John McCain. They hope that an act of God will make Sarah Palin president.
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This then, is the sort of back-stabbing scumbags that the Republican party has sold it's soul to. They yearn to take the world back to to the happy, old pre-Renaissance days when the Church had enough power that it was, in essence, the ruler of Europe. They think that Sarah Palin will lead them there, gimmie an Amen!
Those thirty pieces of silver depreciate by the day.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2008 : 10:22:06 [Permalink]
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| Only one step removed from declaring a fatwa on McCain.... If, FSM forbids, the GOP wins, how long till some deluded fool interpret himself to be God's instrument to realize this prayer? |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
 Posted - 10/17/2008 : 13:05:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
And here we have it: The more theocratic elements of the Religious Right have a disturbing habit, (more like a practice) of invoking "imprecatory prayer" -- a call for God to literally pour his wrath down on those they consider to be his enemies. Last year, for example, Rev. Wiley Drake, then a Second Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention made news when he called on his followers to pray for God to smite members of the staff of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. (Drake was angry that the organization had reported Drake to the IRS for endorsing Mike Huckabee on church stationary, among other apparent abuses of his church's 501(c))(3) tax-exemption.)
The most recent target of theoractic imprecations is none other than Republican presidential candidate John McCain. They hope that an act of God will make Sarah Palin president.
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This then, is the sort of back-stabbing scumbags that the Republican party has sold it's soul to. They yearn to take the world back to to the happy, old pre-Renaissance days when the Church had enough power that it was, in essence, the ruler of Europe. They think that Sarah Palin will lead them there, gimmie an Amen!
Those thirty pieces of silver depreciate by the day.
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And if their god existed and their god really wants what they have faith he wants then we would be in the happy old pre-Renaissance days. What don't they get? By only a casual look at the reality of human civilization and a little reasoning, they can deduce several possible natures of their god:
#1. He does not exist.
#2. He exists but he doesn't want what their faith says he wants.
#3. He exists and he does want what their faith says he wants but he values free will and refuses to force it on people who reject it.
#4. He exists and he does want what their faith says he wants but he's weak and incapable of making the world in the image he wants and so must depend upon them to do it for him.
The only conclusion that can justify their nuttiness is #4 and what's the point in serving a weak god? Perhaps it's not a weak god at all, but Satan or one of his followers. Fools.
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-Chaloobi
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| Edited by - chaloobi on 10/17/2008 18:14:32 |
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O Lord, please kill John McCain…
