Tea Party official opens Miss. meeting with prayer asking for violence against Republicans

[arcane1]

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.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/tea-party-official-opens-miss-meeting-with-prayer-asking-for-violence-against-republicans/



Well, at least they aren't wishing for our deaths for a change.

[packman]

1. Delicious -

Don't you just love that Old Testament Fire and Brimstone shit being piled on the party that hugged them to their bosom. Reminds me of that old fable of a man finding a frozen snake , thawing it out then it biting him. When the man asked of the snake as he lay dying , "I saved your life, why did you bite me?"
The snake replied, "It was my nature and why I exist".

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I do not see a call for violence ...

I do, however, see a request for god to intervene on one side of a political matter.

But this always brings me back to a question I asked a particularly political "man of god" ...

Rev. XXX, you just prayed that your XXX be defeated and you ended the prayer with "your will be done" ... Has it ever occurred to you that god has already weighed in; has already expressed his will?

I was invited to leave that particular church.

[TlalocW]

4. I've pointed this out to conservative friends

In regards to the GOP presidential candidates always claiming God is on their side. Since they didn't, I posit that it must be God was pulling for Obama.

They don't like that.

TlalocW

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. And, not to offend anyone ...

(But if anyone is offended, I will delete this) ...

But if god is omnipotent, does he really had the right's help to do anything?

[freshwest]

3. The Tea Party Goes To Church:

The Stranger gives voice to what they are really requesting:

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

That's how I feel when I hear the preachers of the Tea Party. They do openly admit what they'd do with their savage selfishness. They're the American Taliban, or if they had enough power, the American ISIS.

As far as not going after Democrats, we're still on the list when they've finished off 'moderate' Republicans. They only hate them because they are blocking their aim in the free fire zone they are training themselves to burst forth from. They are the death of civil society and equality.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Well...