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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

2012 The Power of Prayer

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM

The idiocy...

I wonder if your praise-loving, prayer-needy God has other things going on in His mysterious mind....

Tropical Storm Isaac neared hurricane strength early Tuesday as it swirled through the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, pointed toward the fragile lowlands of south Louisiana and the ever-vulnerable city of New Orleans.

Yes, your God seems to be raising the ghost of Katrina...

Party officials and convention planners are increasingly anxious about a different and possibly more damaging scenario: a split-screen broadcast of Republicans partying in Tampa alongside images of serious storm damage in states such as Louisiana and Mississippi.
Some Republicans here worry the juxtaposition of events could revive memories of the disastrous 2005 storms — Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — and the government’s terrible handling of them.
Public outrage over the George W. Bush administration’s response to those catastrophes — Katrina especially — shadowed the president and the GOP for years.

The absence of the former Republican president might be filled by the presence of this ghost. If God loved your praying so much, it would have been better that He hit Tampa (sympathy) and spared New Orleans (memory).

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Does this mean that people in New Orleans can sue her for any damage Isaac causes in N.O.? Because clearly, she sent the storm there with her "powers". If she is willing to claim responsibility for moving the storm, she should be held responsible for its damages to the people she moved the storm TO.

Posted by SeattleKim on August 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM

I liked the original tag line ..fucking idiots!

Posted by ruthw on August 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM

I wish somebody would don a voodoo witchdoctor mask and follow these twits around shaking a rattle at them.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on August 28, 2012 at 9:07 AM

Lemme get this straight: you prayed to God to have a hurricane wipe out some other people instead of yourself? And that prayer was answered? And that's a good thing?

Did Jebus draw them eyebrows too?

Posted by Fnarf

on August 28, 2012 at 9:08 AM

@2, i did not know the post was live while composing it.

Posted by Charles Mudede on August 28, 2012 at 9:11 AM

NPR did a short segment this morning on popular youtube videos in which they called google for input. The PR guy there said one of the current trends is informational/science videos, one of the hottest being one in which Bill Nye talks about the fallacy of creationism and the dire importance of teaching evolution.

To borrow a phrase from Dan, "We are Winning."

Posted by mikethehammer on August 28, 2012 at 9:13 AM

Everybody KNOWS that the God that loves the GOP isn't the same God that loves the people of New Orleans - how could He be? Most of the people in NOLA are poor, black, and vote Democrat.

Posted by COMTE

on August 28, 2012 at 9:17 AM

This is the problem with so many prayers. The vast majority are, at their, core, selfish requests for some unfortunate event to befall someone else besides the one praying. It becomes some twisted competition...whoever can pray the hardest is spared, while those who fail to pray with enough frequency or sincerity are left to suffer. No wonder the Jesus freaks gravitate toward the Republicans; the right's "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" narrative fits perfectly with this dog-eat-dog world of Christian prayer-offs.

Anyway, I feel sorry for that woman. To wander this life in such a profound state of delusion...my sympathies go out to her.

It's tragic that such a hugely misguided and disturbed person is merely one of millions, all engaged in a Darwinian (oh, the irony!) pursuit of God's favor.

Posted by schmacky on August 28, 2012 at 9:58 AM

As a callow youth I once tried to solve my unibrow problem with tweezers, didn't know when to stop, and got a result much like hers.

Posted by gloomy gus on August 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM

@8,

I have a similar beef with people who credit God for their success. The disgusting thing to me is that people who do it probably think they're showing humility, when in actual fact they're claiming to be so special the creator of the fucking universe went out of His way to make them successful. He had nothing else better to do that day I guess.

Posted by keshmeshi on August 28, 2012 at 10:42 AM

@7 One more "good" storm, and maybe they'll at least be a majority of the pearl-necklace Democrats, not the poors-loving faction. Republican Jeebus would consider that a step in the right directions, eh?

http://thegrio.com/2012/08/28/new-orlean…

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on August 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Keep in mind that, with this storm, other areas of Louisiana will likely be hit harder than New Orleans - areas full of white, wealthy, fundamentalists.

Perhaps God is punishing them instead.

Posted by Sheryl on August 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM

Reverend needs some false eyelashes intervention. I'd love to sit in on one of her sermons. It'd feel like a drag show.

Notice she didn't pray for God to dissipate the hurricane - just to move it somewhere else. Please, God, don't rain on us Republicans.

Sound Republican to you?

Posted by Bauhaus I on August 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM

Every couple of months or so, there’s a prayer post like this where so many of you express astonishment and outrage. It certainly isn’t anything new, so why the outrage? The way people pray goes from the discreet and subdued, to the woman like this, to talking in tongues. And their requests of God and how they think they’re being answered needs no commentary or evaluation as its totally subjective. Being ouraged over these posts is like being “outraged” every time you have to stop at a stop sign.

It’s our culture.

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