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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Antiabortion militant and all-round theocratic activist Jay Rogers of Florida, whose blog is called The Forerunner, writes:
Pray for John McCain's salvation and speedy death. (Google The Forerunner's articles on Imprecatory Prayer if you think this is harsh.)
And then there is this guy, a self-described Christian Reconstructionist whose blog handle is Ixion, and is apparently from Tennessee:
McCain's VP choice, Sarah Palin, suddenly made me want to vote for him, as long as the LORD smites him while he's in office. She's consistently conservative on all the issues, and if she's good enough for The Forerunner, she's good enough for me. The Forerunner agrees with me that McCain must be smitten, as well, so I'm obviously not alone in my viewpoints.
Prayer for death/bad luck to happen to John McCain (or ANYBODY) is evil. Don't these people know that karma will come back and bite them in the ass? Who was the "minister" prayer it would rain on Obama's acceptance speech? Well, the weather was beautiful for Obama's acceptance speech, but we missed the whole Rebublican Convention (I know - poor me - NOT!) because Hurricane Gustave came and all of southern Louisiana was evacuated and we didn't have power during the whole convention!
This is the kind of people that are excited about Sarah Palin. What does that say about her?
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/3/11483/34706There is another good article about this at
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/09/so_how_are_evangelicals_and_fu.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellinkThere is a lot to be concerned about if the media continues giving Palin a pass on all her lies, etc. and just continues to paint her as a working mother than women can relate to. I just had to get this off my chest. :rant:
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