Heh, the freepers have an "election prayer thread."

[Craig3410]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1731268/posts

Yeah; just keep praying; don't bother going to the polls. Jesus'll take care of that for ya.

[aquart]

1. Jesus is.

[American Jesus]

6. Verily, I am working on it.

But Satan owns the Diebold machines, so people still have to show up and vote.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. *lol*

[populistdriven]

17. /.

[XboxWarrior]

20. hmmmnnnnnnn......

A Prayer for national leaders:

Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

posted on 11/02/2006 9:20:16 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

Pretty sure they don't even read this crap.......or get the obvious humor!

[C_U_L8R]

2. They need it

hahahahhaha

[BurtWorm]

3. "Please, if you feel so moved, join me in a prayer vigil through Tuesday evening

for the upcoming elections. And please ping anyone you think might be interested in doing this."

:rofl:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. Right now, that's all they have left.

[Earth_First]

5. A prayer is about all you've been reduced to...

I wouldn't hold your collective breaths for too long over there at FR.

...On second thought...

[Totally Committed]

7. Like, "Dear Lord... please make our lies and deceptions work

again come Tuesday. And, if they can't please, Lord, help Diebold do it's holy job on our behalf. You know we are righteous. Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, the poor... they all drag America down. And, we know all Muslims are terrorists. We promise to hold them down for you if you just answer our prayers at this dire time. And, please Lord, keep those taxcuts in place forever and ever. Amen."

Like that?

Charming.

TC

[melody]

8. that's exactly what my fundie uncle told me in email today

That and things will only get worse "no matter whom is in office", and then the "church will be raptured".

I think we should encourage that kind of laid-back religious attitude. They should just stay home and keep
watching all the Jesus shows. Let us heathen liberals vote. :)

[MADem]

9. Well, you know who helped ginn up that 'Prayer Team' idea, doncha??

http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_Info

Michael W. Smith, Joni Eareckson Tada, Senator Jon Kyl, Bill McCartney, Thomas Kinkade, Jack Hayford, Jerry Colangelo, John Maxwell, Henry Blackaby, David Jeremiah, Paul Cedar, Ron Blue, and Ted Haggard are among those putting their names behind The Presidential Prayer Team and its goal to encourage millions to pray daily for the President, the Cabinet and the nation.




Photo of Ted Haggard courtesy of The World Prayer Team.
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_Archive_030521

[EFerrari]

12. These are the people Junior called "The Nuts".

How can you continue to pray for someone who calls you a "nut"?

That's faith, baby.

:rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

21. Is this the same Thomas Kinkade, as in "The Painter of Light?"

[MADem]

32. Yep, and he's a creep, see below! NT

[CitizenLeft]

22. Thomas Kinkade? Painter of Light???

He's gone into the darkness. Damn glad I thought twice about spending $150 on one of his paintings.

Thanks for the info, I won't forget.

[MADem]

31. Ugh, he's an awful, schlocky artist--thank heavens you were saved!!!

About the only 'art' worse than his drek are those large eyed cartoon creatures that were all the rage during the Nixon era!!

These folks improve on his work a bit: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1918 http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1928

Sample:



Brutal stuff!!!

Apparently, he ain't such a nice guy,either...

Today's LA Times has a character-assassinating cover story on Thomas Kinkade, the guy who paints scenes of woodland cottages with windows that seem to glow.
First, the Times discusses Kinkade's alleged shady business practices, which have driven at least on gallery owner to ruin. Next the article launches into Kinkade's alleged pattern of drunken and belligerent behavior.

In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.
And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.....


http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/05/la_times_rips_into_t.html

[louis-t]

10. Are they praying Rove can steal enough votes?

Are they praying that their flyers saying "Dems vote on Nov. 8th" work?
Are they praying that Repug Secs of State can stop Dems from voting?
Are they praying for GOTV workers to throw away Dem registrations?
:shrug:

[FairVotes4all]

11. Dont they realize that Jesus stood for what they are against?

Jesus wasn't anti-tax (render unto Caesar what is Caesar's)

Jesus wasn't pro-war (Live by the sword, Die by the sword)(Turn the other cheek)...etc

Jesus was definately not for the rich

Jesus was against Merchants in the temple (Megachurches)

Jesus was against forcefully spreading his teachings (if your town wont believe, shake the dust off your feet at them and leave)

Jesus never mentioned Homosexuality in any of his gospels, and said always love your neighbor

Jesus taught against prosecuting the forigner

So.. maybe its not Jesus they are praying to...

[renate]

23. Bingo!

If only these people would read their Bibles....

[NJCher]

14. I needed some amusement on a Sunday afternoon

Partly through the prayer thread, laughing my head off all the way. It's getting pretty fervent over there. Pretty soon they'll start typing in tongues.




Cher

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I Pray That Every Republican Goes Out And Votes On Wednesday Like Satan Was On The Ballot

eom

[rockymountaindem]

16. I won't mock them for that

I did some praying of my own yesterday.

[Selatius]

18. There is no God where the Freepers are. n/t

[NJCher]

19. when all you've got is a hammer, the world looks like a nail

I snickered at the post that said "Prayer is our greatest weapon ." Man, these people are right in step with Fearless Leader. Everything's a war--war on drugs, war on terror, war on heathen Democrats. And if it's not a war, it's a weapon.

Why do they choose such violent metaphors?




Cher

p.s. edited to add this one:

Listening to the news lately is like dwelling in the valley of death. . Many big amens to all your and others prayers on this thread. As we seek the Lord, He will deliver us of all our fears.

Hey, now you know how we felt after 9/11 when Fearless Leader was being hailed as the second coming.

[Dob Bole]

24. Yeah? So?

"My intentions are that the Lord's will be done, that corrupt acts be brought to light and those who do wrong on election day be found out, and that a fire be lit in the hearts of all to cast the right vote."

I completely agree with the Freepers' prayer thread. I hope that all corrupt acts ARE brought to light. Furthermore, there are probably people on FreeRepublic who pray, even though they are freepers, and who read the Bible, even though they are Freepers. They have every right to, so I'm not sure why it's supposed to be such a big deal. Congratulations on directing a bunch of traffic to FR.

[Lexingtonian]

25. Cultism like that

is just so 2004.

Watching this variety 'Christians' misread and selectively quote the Hebrew Bible to fit their paganisms and occultisms and recapitulations of Ancient World heresies is one of the dreary spectacles of Middle American life. "Justice, justice shalt thou seek" is not the verse they remember when voting for the Party that condones torture, legalizes murder, and annuls and disenforces 14th Amendment rights to the weak, abused, poor, helpless, and wrongfully treated generally.

What ever happened to the Law of Love? The Sermon on the Mount? Why all the lip service to the certainty and memory and teachings of the Christian mystics and saints and Hebrew prophets, and zero actions in their spirit?

The most bizarre thing is how they never look at the theology of the Republican Party in practice. For all the 'seminary training' and whatnot, they can't see how literally that Party manifests the Martin/Levinas triad of dogmas of the occult (The Astral Plane, Doctrine of Analogy, and Omnipotence of the Will)- which the GOP ran on in 2000, 2002, and 2004 respectively. They are blind to that occultisms always see Death as the face of the Deity that is embraced: and what is the GOP running on this election other than a dogmatic need to embrace more death, destruction, and dissolution as a Divine desire?

"Choose life, not death" is a warning in Deuteronomy about a mortal danger in the spiritual life, and it's one these people have blinded themselves to by choosing a political and materialistic misinterpretation of it. But that variety of fundamental error is sadly par for the course, given their pre-Christian pagan worldview.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. There's nothing wrong with prayer, but...

They are hypocrites. They have a daily "Pray for pResident Bush" thread. I don't remember any for President Clinton. If they were really into praying, they would pray for all presidents and not just the ones they like.

[Mountainman]

27. They pray that God's will be done. If we win is that God's will or will they say the devil

got into the hearts of voters?

Stupid freepers, read the sermon on the mount, blessed are the peace makers etc. It doesn't say blessed are those who back preemptive war based on lies.

[devilgrrl]

28. Our they sacrificing a goat in the process?

eom

[DeepModem Mom]

29. Actually, DU has traditionally had one, too, before elections --

people have been asked to pray, or send good vibrations, or good thoughts, or whatever they wish to do.

[crim son]

30. We all know how well it worked for Terry Schiavo.

Let them pray if it makes them feel better; it won't affect the elections one way or the other :shrug: