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[Zimbochick]

[Mr. Roboto]

The Christians are being persecuted by the gays. So much that they felt the need to hold a rally, and roll out all their best creeps. 

 

 

Then, just moments later I received this PM in my "other" box on Facebook. I guess she read a post of mine, and felt she must tell me about God. 

 

HI Jason, My name is Madeleine. Nice to meet you. Interesting post on HONY. You said that this lady didn't pity you if she was honest. Well I'm being honest and i will tell you, that I do not pity you at the moment. But if you should say that you do not believe in God and your eyes are focused on this passing world and this never changed and you didn't believe in Jesus before death then i would pity you. I have seen huge miracles and heard many others...of course we ourselves and this world which God made is beautiful....but this is not where we will stay....its passing.

 

Look around you for a moment...everything you see will pass away just as it clearly states in the bible (which when being read with the gift of the holy spirit and prayer is incredible). So keep your eyes on worldly things which will soon all be dead - all you experience with your senses....or keep your eyes fixed on the things which can only be seen with your spiritual senses which is promised to last forever. The gift God gave you of free will and therefore the choice is yours. So no I don't pity you as I do not know you so it would be wrong to judge you. But i pity anyone who chooses the world. It's as stable as the stock market on a bad day. In prayers. Madeleine

 

 

 

Apparently she was concerned that I believed my thoughts were greater than god's, so she went on. I love when they quote the bible, like it means something. 

 

God loves you. 

If you believe that your thoughts are greater than God's and therefore you disagree with His existence, then I put this to you...

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?

Tell me, if you understand.

5 Who marked off its dimensions? 

Surely you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its footings set,

or who laid its cornerstone—

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors

when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment

and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 when I fixed limits for it

and set its doors and bars in place,

11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;

here is where your proud waves halt’?

12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,

or shown the dawn its place,

13 that it might take the earth by the edges

and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;

its features stand out like those of a garment.

15 The wicked are denied their light,

and their upraised arm is broken.

16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea

or walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been shown to you?

Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

19 “What is the way to the abode of light?

And where does darkness reside?

20 Can you take them to their places?

Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

21 Surely you know, for you were already born!

You have lived so many years!

22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow

or seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 which I reserve for times of trouble,

for days of war and battle?

24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,

or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,

and a path for the thunderstorm,

26 to water a land where no one lives,

an uninhabited desert,

27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland

and make it sprout with grass?

28 Does the rain have a father?

Who fathers the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb comes the ice?

Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

30 when the waters become hard as stone,

when the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 “Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?

Can you loosen Orion’s belt?

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]

or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?

Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?

34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds

and cover yourself with a flood of water?

35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?

Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[f]

or gives the rooster understanding?[g]

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

Who can tip over the water jarsof the heavens

38 when the dust becomes hard

and the clods of earth stick together?

39 “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness

and satisfy the hunger of the lions

40 when they crouch in their dens

or lie in wait in a thicket?

41 Who provides food for the raven

when its young cry out to God

and wander about for lack of food?

 

 

 

SMH

[artcinco]

Doesn't she have some "War on Christmas" post to start sending out?

[Mr. Roboto]

I wanted to write her back and tell her about the awesome drag show we saw last night. Shania Twain was kinda hot to be honest. 

[Mr. Roboto]

The woman who disrupted the first ever Muslim prayer service conducted at the National Cathedral claims she was sent to protest the ceremony by God after reading about it on the Drudge Report.

 

In an interview with World Net Daily, Christine Weick, 50, said she read about the event on Drudge and became enraged, saying, “My blood began to boil as I read the comments of how this is to be such a wonderful event and how religious tolerance can, for the first time, be shown in our nation’s capital.”

 

Friday’s prayer service was just beginning when Weick stood up and began walking towards the front of the cathedral shouting.

 

“Jesus Christ died on that cross. He is the reason we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior,” she said. “We have built …allowed you your mosques in this country. Why don’t you worship in your mosques and leave our churches alone? We are a country founded on Christian principles.”

 

According to Weick, she expected to get arrested but was instead politely escorted from the cathedral and handed from police officer to police officer before being conducted to the street.

 

“They never said a word to me. Two guys came up and got me. I remember one large man in a suit taking me by the arm, very strongly but he did not hurt me,” she said.

 

After being ejected, Weick said she got into her SUV and began the 400-mile trip back to Tennessee where she  says she lives in her car after being disowned by her family  because she took a stand against same-sex marriage and other “moral issues.” According to Weick,  her husband divorced her last year “over a spiritual conflict.”

 

Speaking of the prayer service, Weick said she knew in advance that the event was for “invited guests only.”

 

“That’s when I knew I had to be creative, and so did God,” Weick explained. “I was driving there on my way from Tennessee, and I’ve got a lot of doubts in my mind: Am I going to make a fool of myself? Am I going to be in jail for the weekend?”

 

During her long drive to the nation’s capital she saw what she believed was a sign from God.

 

“There’s this woman stepping out of her vehicle on the side of the road, clapping and giving me two thumbs up, and I’m like, ‘That was the strangest thing,’ ” she said. “The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘That’s my confirmation right there.’ That’s all I needed, and from that point on I knew this was something I’m going to do; and that was the catapult that moved me to keep going towards Washington.”

 

Weick also credited God with getting her past security.

 

“It was a God thing how I got past all that security in the beginning. They never ID’d me, and I had brought my ID with me just in case, and I thought that would be my downfall, being from Michigan, that they would say, ‘What is she doing here?” Weick explained. “According to reports, this was a heavy security event. They checked every bag and every person that walked in there. I bet some security people are in big trouble today.”

 

After slipping into the cathedral, saying she felt like God had made her invisible, Weick said she was appalled by what she saw.

 

“Then it hit me… I had such an angst come over me. Seeing these Muslims sitting on their rugs ready to bow to a god, causing such an abomination in the house of the Lord,” she said. That was when Weick spoke up and was subsequently ejected

 

“I took a very strong stand on something last year. My husband divorced me over it. It broke my heart. I have a lot of heartache back home, a lot of hurt,” she said. “And I felt the Lord telling me, ‘You are going to go from place to place for me.’”

 

As for her future plans, Weick said she doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her situation.

 

“Don’t be sorry for me. I have a very nice SUV. I go out to eat, I have a bank account,” she told WND. “I am just too Dutch to pay 60 or 70 bucks for a hotel every night when I can spend my nights in my car. And I travel every night from place to place, and that is what I was doing when I saw the story in the Drudge Report.”

 

Watch the video below from WND:

 

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[artcinco]

Funny, God told me through the Drudge Report that I need more coffee.

[Zimbochick]

[Mr. Roboto]

[Mr. Roboto]

All hell breaks loose!

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Shit is gettin' real down in Texasland..

 

[Mr. Roboto]

GOD had a busy week. Alabama alone was a heavy lift, what with all those God invocations by state leaders trying to cast out the demon of gay marriage, then London called as well. Scott Walker was on a trip there, and he tugged God into the picture when he was asked about evolution and declined to answer, as if embracing it would be a heathen outrage.

 

In a subsequent tweet, Walker insisted that there wasn’t any conflict between “faith & science,” which, he wrote, “go hand in hand.”

 

That’s debatable. This isn’t: Faith and government shouldn’t be as cozy as they are in this country. Politicians in general, and Republicans in particular, shouldn’t genuflect as slavishly as they do, not in public. They’re vying to be senators and presidents. They’re not auditioning to be ministers and missionaries.

 

No one told that to Rick Perry as he ramped up for the 2012 presidential race and gave God a workout to be remembered. I’ve certainly never forgotten it. He was then the governor of Texas, and in April 2011, as wildfires ravaged the state, he signed a gubernatorial proclamation denoting one 72-hour period as the Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.

 

The following month, reflecting on the array of problems confronting America, he said, “I think it’s time for us to just hand it over to God, and say, ‘God: You’re going to have to fix this.’ ” And three months after that, he gathered some 30,000 people, most of them evangelical Christians, in a Houston stadium for an event called The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis.

 

As Manny Fernandez noted in his coverage of that rally in The Times, Perry used “his office’s prestige, letterhead, Web site and other resources to promote it.” I don’t see much of a separation of church and state there.

 

Remarkably, none of this was a drag on his aspirations for the Oval Office, not at all. He remained a serious contender for his party’s nomination until a debate performance that was less than celestial sent him tumbling to earth.

 

Faith is a serious matter, and an important one, but it’s trivialized when it’s toted too readily and stridently into the political arena.

 

And while a creed can rightly be a personal compass, it’s wrongly deployed as marching orders or a governing strategy. Politicians’ religions — and I use the plural on purpose, because there’s no one religion that gets to trump the others — should be a source of their strength and of their empathy, not of their agendas.

 

But that’s not the way it works out in this country, especially not among Republicans, who can’t quit their fealty to the religious right and who, because of that, drive away many independent voters who are otherwise receptive to an ideology of limited government, personal responsibility and muscular foreign policy.

 

These voters just can’t stomach all the moralizing that comes with that ideology. They can’t take the placement of divinity above Darwin.

 

And there’s a heavy dose of divinity.

 

Mike Huckabee, who is an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist church, put God in the title of a new book that he wrote and just released on the cusp of what may be another presidential bid. He ran previously in 2008, when he won the Iowa caucuses.

 

The book is called “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.” These are a few of his favorite things.

 

During a recent appearance on a Christian TV program, he explained that he was mulling a 2016 campaign because America had lost sight of its identity as a “God-centered nation that understands that our laws do not come from man, they come from God.” The way he talks, the Constitution is a set of tablets hauled down from a mountaintop by a bearded prophet.

 

HE later added that “the only thing worse than not being elected president would be to be elected president without God’s blessing. I can’t think of a worse place in the world to be than in the Oval Office without God’s hand upon you.”

 

Last week he injected religion into politics in a different way, recalling President Obama’s recent reference to the Crusades and questioning the president’s respect for Christianity. Huckabee said that Muslims are “the one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support.”

 

That’s ugly and absurd. While I agree that Obama’s digression into history was ill-timed and unnecessary, I’m offended by Huckabee’s extrapolation.

 

 

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Huckabee is an extreme case within his party, but the Republican courtship of the religious right and its fear of giving offense to Christian fundamentalists are pervasive. Republican presidential candidates, even relatively moderate ones, run from the subject of evolution as if it were a ticking bomb. And they routinely polish their religious bona fides.

 

But we should be wary of politicians who are too eager to talk of religion, which is an easy rallying cry and, frequently, a diversion or even a disguise. It can cover up private misdeeds.

 

It can put a rosy glow on political calculations. Obama, for example, framed his past opposition to gay marriage as a deeply personal matter of faith. But as David Axelrod’s new book, “Believer,” makes clear, it was a deeply expedient matter of evading some voters’ wrath. He more or less supported gay marriage, at least when he was away from the podium, all along.

 

We should be even warier of politicians and other leaders who wrap policy in dogma, claiming holy guidance. That’s a dangerous road to take. At the far, bitter end of it lie theocracies and brutal extremists.

 

We should listen hard to what’s being said in Alabama, where opponents of gay marriage aren’t merely asserting that it runs counter to what Alabamians want. They’re declaring that it perverts God’s will, which was the position that some racists took about integration.

 

Last week, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party wrote that the state would “reap God’s wrath if we embrace and condone things that are abhorrent to God, such as redefining marriage.”

 

And in an interview with the CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore — the man who once put up a granite monument to the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial System building — said, “Our rights, contained in the Bill of Rights, do not come from the Constitution, they come from God.”

 

“That’s your faith,” Cuomo replied. “But that’s not our country.”

 

Cuomo’s right, and God should be given a rest. Even in Genesis he got one.

 

[freedom78]

Ugh...didn't like that.  Poorly written and full of vague, unsupported statements.  And he ends on a point that's just fundamentally incorrect.  When Roy Moore says that our rights, meaning civil liberties, come from God, he's actually much closer to the notion than is Cuomo or this article quoting him.  The premise of freedoms is based in natural law, which many philosophers attribute to God.  Regardless, Moore is actually correct to say that freedoms do not come from the Constitution.  The Constitution assumes rights, and simply restricts government from taking them away.  If they do not come from government, from where do they come?  This is where the God/Natural Law angle comes in.  You don't have to believe in God to believe in freedoms...you just have to believe that most freedoms reflect some truths about the natural human condition.  My "right" to free speech is based in the fact that it's very hard to prevent me from talking if I really want to; all you can do is punish me after the fact. 

[artcinco]

Walker needs to get his pat answers for all the gotcha questions down now if he is serious about running.

[freedom78]

Wouldn't it be nice if they could all just tell us what they believe, why, and what they plan to prioritize in office?  I could give two shits about his beliefs on evolution, for example, if his priorities are national defense and immigration.  But if they're science and education, then we're fucked.

[artcinco]

No politician would ever play it straight. See Mondale's "I will raise taxes" gaff that gave Reagan a 49 state landslide.