President Bush said Thursday that America's history is inexorably tied to prayer.
"In my travels across the great land, a comment that I hear often from our fellow citizens is, `Mr. President, I pray for you and your family.' It's amazing how many times a total stranger walks up and says that to me," Bush said. "You'd think they'd say, `How about the bridge?' Or, `How about filling the potholes?' No, they say, `I've come to tell you I pray for you, Mr. President'."
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A Nation of Prayer: most are praying for Bush to go away!
Nice words
wonder who wrote them?
Josh Bolton I would guess.
junior's low poll numbers tell ya that his prayers aren't being listened too!
Are they sure he didn't say "nation of payers"
He's sometimes difficult to understand, you know.
"Praise the Lard"?
And we thought it was just the accent...
A nation of prayer does not wage war.
We bomb; we invade; we exploit. If not directly, then we do it indirectly through dictators and surrogates. Then we move on and do it again to another weak, poor country. If that's the definition of a nation of prayer, I'd hate to see what a nation does when it doesn't even bother praying at all.
Bush speaks blasphemy.
Dear Jesus
Edited on Thu May-04-06 02:55 PM by maseman
I know all humans are your children. But what happened to GW? Was he dropped on his head as a child or did some wires just get crossed somewhere when he was a baby? I would never pray any harm on anyone. I just pray that GW goes far FAR away very soon. Mars would be nice. Heck, even Iceland would be OK for me.
Oh, and Jesus, please take Richard Cheney with Bush. And don't give him any guns or quail to play with either.
Your faithful servant...
"all humans are your children." Not according to what Jesus said.
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. 43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? 47He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
FYI
"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 shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with hurricanes 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 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 the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
(From The War Prayer by Mark Twain)
All men are created equal*
*except women, blacks, non-Republicans, illegal immigrants, non-Christians, and especially gays
Welcome to Bush's "new and improved America"
That's the spirit!
The sooner we establish who's really in charge, the sooner we can all get on with the business of being righteous, God-fearing Americans.
Didn't you know that God blessed America and no other country? Yup, we're the chosen people. I believe the bible was written here by early Americans, and I think Bethlehem is a little town in Pennsylvania. :sarcasm:
btw - Our beloved leader talks about how people come up to him all the time and say that they pray for him. Gee, this wouldn't be due to the fact that anybody who gets within' earshot of the guy has been highly screened, would it? Mr. President, if I had a chance to come up to you and tell you something, you can bet your sweet ass your ears would be burning.
A recent study indicated that prayer made little difference when
applied to relatives for healing from medical conditions, as compared to no prayers for a controlled group. It could not be measured, because apparently it has no effect.
Speaking of potholes, I suppose it would be similar to the effect of prayer on the pothole on the street in front of your house.
Please, I pray to you, President Pothole, send some one to fill the pothole on my street.
(Alfonse D'Amato was known as Senator Pothole for making sure the potholes were filled in his neighborhood.)
He doesn't mind being included in their prayers, since he thinks he's God.
My mistake, I didn't think we had a prayer w/* in office.
Of course, the people who actually get within spitting distance of him are screened and have rifles pointed at them. That way there is no issue of all those people who would come up to him and call him an asshole.
Ugh.
It's called separation of church and state. One of the basic principles of our government. And he just shat on it yet again. Asshat.
The morans who look up to this shnook as "a man of faith"
Any American who votes for someone on the basis of that politician's self-alleged religious beliefs has disgraced and insulted the efforts made by the Founders.
More and more that shithead is sounding
like your crazy Uncle Mumbles who babbles on in cliches. Oh, and this isn't a knock on cliches or prayer; it is just that I am concerned when we have a president who thinks reality is a Norman Rockwell painting from 1956.
Oh, and that "stranger" who sort of wanders up to the President and says "Mr. President, I pray for you and your family." First, I've always wondered how said stranger got past the Secret Service. Second, what that citizen never quite got to say was "I pray for you because you have so fucked up the country and the rest of the world that there is no place in hell deep enough for you. So I pray that you get impeached as soon as possible, and I pray that Jenna and not-Jenna can live down the shame.
How many "total strangers" just "walk up" to Bush?
They'd be arrested. Or tasered. Or shot.
How about a Day Of Rational Thinking?
Nah, that would never work with this bunch.
"In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all."
Since I'm proud to be an Angry Whackjob Atheist, let me translate that for you:
"We know a few of you Commie Atheists are out there somewhere...mostly in New York City and Los Angeles. But you notice I only mention you on our Big National Day Of Collective Kneeling To The Sky-Fairy. In case you haven't guessed, that's a good Xian way of politely telling you to Cheney off. Pretty funny, eh?"
Did Stephen Colbert write his lines? Updated at 4:17 PM
This really cracks me up.
"It's amazing how many times a total stranger walks up and says that to me," Bush said. "You'd think they'd say, `How about the bridge?' Or, `How about filling the potholes?' No, they say, `I've come to tell you I pray for you, Mr. President'."
Whenever a "Christian" prays for me, they are not doing out out of kindness, they are doing it to illustrate that I'm so terrible even their prayers can't help me.
Three of my self-righteous, "born-again" brothers they included in a grace over the family Christmas dinner a request that God find a way to save my soul. I asked them how I could be saved, and they explained about getting converted, and in answer to further questions agreed that that meant you were absolutely bound for heaven after that, no matter what you might do in the meantime. It absolutely ruined their Christmas when I told them in that case they had nothing to worry about, I was "saved" at a revivalist meeting when I was 11 years old.
The poor blokes blanched could hardly swallow a mouthful after that. The idea of the little sister they had sexually abused and labeled a liar, a slut and a harlot to stop anyone listening to her, and who's attempted murder they had happily gone along with, being in heaven with them was more than they could bear.
We're a nation of prayer, that's for sure.
We pray the monarch won't start another war. We pray our families won't get sick because we have no health insurance. We pray the gasoline for the car lasts the entire week. We pray for warm winters so we don't freeze to death. We pray there's a sane (and brave) person somewhere in the administration who will not allow a nuke to be dropped. We pray another natural distaster doesn't hit our country and we pray we never again see our fellow citizens stranded on roof tops or abandoned in sports arenas. We pray the unchecked containers arriving in our ports do not contain radioactive hazards or deadly diseases and we pray there are no bombs in the bellies of our planes. We pray for jobs, we pray for education, we pray for clean air and water. Most of all, we pray for November.
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