I once asked the Lord to find my missing cat, but I was like 10 years old. He didn’t answer my prayer. I got the message. Some people never do.
A Mississippi Tea Party official opened a meeting this week with a prayer calling on God to “be violent against” establishment Republicans.
“We ask for your blessing upon the conservatives in this state, that they might stand strong and firm,” said the state’s Tea Party chairman, Roy Nicholson. “Father, we even ask for you to bless our enemies, and Lord they are truly our enemies that head the Republican Party and the whole political establishment.”
Nicholson then clarified the request, according to the Jackson Free Press.
“We’re asking, Father, for two things,” he said. “We’re asking, Father, that you would expose them, set division amongst them, set them one against another, bring confusion and fear into their camp, into their thinking, for the purpose of pulling them down, for casting them down out of their high offices and reducing them, Lord, to having no power in this state.”
“So, Lord, that you might raise up and seek the righteous in the positions of power that this state might once more be a state that honors you in all that it does,” Nicholson concluded.
The “righteous” in this case are the people who oppose letting the former slaves participate in the political process in Mississippi. And we all know what God thought about enslavers.
Right?
These are the same folks who insist on prayer at football games and public meetings as “essential to preserving our morality and our civilization.”
Lord, deliver us from these infantile publicans. (Church folks will understand what that says.)
Here’s one that you can share:
“Dear God [or Thor]
Lightning bolt.
You know who I mean”
.
○ Brazil presidential candidate Eduardo Campos killed in plane crash
(Buenos Aires Herald) – A private jet carrying candidate Eduardo Campos, who was running third in polls ahead of Brazil’s October’s presidential election, crashed today in the city of Santos.
The plane, a Cessna 560XL, lost contact with air traffic control as it was preparing to land, according to an Air Force statement. Television images showed smoke billowing from the crash site in a residential area of Santos.
Media reports confirmed the 49-year-old politician died in the crash.
“Bring confusion and fear into their camp”? Why do they have to talk like they’re olde-timey (like 4th century) Christians?
Old timey?
Old Testament-y.
They know better than to bring Jesus into it, since Jesus was just a dirty fucking hippy well ahead of his time.
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
~Susan B. Anthony
That’s interesting considering that the fundies are behind the “pro-life” group Susan B. Anthony List.
Which only on the most superficial level can we say she was opposed to abortion, in a time when abortion was forced on women against their will. Oh so you mean the common concept here has always been about “choice”? You don’t say…
“We’re asking, Father, for two things,” he said. “We’re asking, Father, that you would expose them, set division amongst them, set them one against another, bring confusion and fear into their camp, into their thinking, for the purpose of pulling them down,
Well, the establishment right now can’t get or can barely get what would otherwise be slam-dunk bills passed like immigration reform and farm subsidies and the IE bank charter renewal. Because of their fear of Teahadists. So… score one for imprecatory prayer?
One of my favorite MASH episodes concerned a patient who believed he was Christ. Father Mulcahey asked him if God answers all prayers. The patient answered, “Yes. Sometimes the answer is no.”
In the case of these folks, the answer should be a resounding, “Hell no!”
That and we know how the “Father” feels about gaining knowledge from various sources, such as snakes or fruit.
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.