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left on green only

(1,484 posts)
2. For awhile there......
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 01:58 AM
Mar 2012

I thought she was speaking in tongues. Just before she started talking about the devil and Jebus. Good spot for an unsanitorum exorcism to be happening.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
3. BEST comment on the YouTube page
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 02:25 AM
Mar 2012
and the lord spake from on high saying "FUCKING RUN YOU INBRED FUCKS ITS A GODDAMED TORNADO!!!"

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appleannie1

(5,067 posts)
4. That is just plain stupid. But you can bet she is telling everyone her prayers saved her home even
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 02:43 AM
Mar 2012

though at no time did the tornado touch down.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
5. Unfortunately there are way too many
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 05:03 AM
Mar 2012

in this country who believe she was doing the correct thing... Had it been a Tsunami..this video would have ended rather quickly.

Son na baka na ..hontou desuyo.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
6. On the news last night, the reporter showed this bit and said the video was
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 06:03 AM
Mar 2012

taken outside of West Liberty, KY which was hit hard by that storm.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
7. The real problem with this...
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 06:09 AM
Mar 2012

It's not fatal NEARLY often enough. Hence natural selection doesn't kick in.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
8. Translation: Lord, smite some other person with that there tornado, not us..
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 06:15 AM
Mar 2012

Mark Twain points out in "The War Prayer" that prayers can have a spoken and an unspoken part, if we pray for rain for our crops it might cause a flood that inundates our neighbor's home.

me b zola

(19,053 posts)
9. I see a distinction between religious people who refer to themselves as "strict" rather than "devout
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 06:17 AM
Mar 2012

My parents referred to themselves as devout Catholics and you never would have heard then pushing their faith on others or making a spectacle of their spiritual views by praying in public.

It is those that refer to themselves as "strict" christians who make spectacles of their faith and try to impose their beliefs on others.

Of course this is a generalization, but i have found this to be fairly universal.

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