Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Blaming God, Society or Obama for Newtown Massacre - Not Gun Owners

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God is a Gentleman and Wouldn't Enter a Public School to Help Little Kids
Bryan Fisher of American Family Association via TruthOut
The question is going to come up, where was God?,” Fischer said. “I thought God cared about the little children. God protects the little children. Where was God when all this went down. Here's the bottom line, God is not going to go where he is not wanted.
“Now we have spent since 1962 -- we're 50 years into this now--we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost, telling God we do not want you in our schools, we don't want to pray to you in our schools, we do not want to pray to your before football games, we don't want to pray to you at graduations, we don't want anybody talking about you in a graduation speech...
“In 1962 we kicked prayer out of the schools. In 1963 we kicked God's word out of ours schools. In 1980 we kicked the Ten Commandments out of our schools. We've kicked God out of our public school system. And I think God would say to us, 'Hey, I'll be glad to protect your children, but you've got to invite me back into your world first. I'm not going to go where I'm not wanted. I am a gentlemen.”

Because Obama Aborted So Many Babies
Victoria Jackson on Facebook, via Digital Spy
"Obama dramatically wiped a tear as he said, 'The majority of those who died today were children - beautiful little kids... They had their entire lives ahead of them - birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own...'

"YEAH OBAMA. SAME AS THE MILLION BABIES YOU HAD ABORTED THIS YEAR. ARE YOU CRYING FOR THEM?"

Jackson suggested to The Huffington Post earlier in the week that her remarks were justified.

"I don't regret anything I have said," she insisted. "I meant that the grieving I feel for the Newtown children and parents is the same grieving I feel for aborted fetuses."

She continued: "Obama is milking this for political reasons. We need no more gun laws but should rather enforce the ones we have."

The War on Manger Scenes, The Gays, Smartphones and Heterosexual Divorce
Radio Talk Show Host, Mike Huckabee
“It’s the fact that people sue a city so we aren’t confronted with a manger scene or Christmas carol … Churches and Christian-owned businesses are told to surrender their values under the edict of government orders to provide tax-funded abortion pills.”
. . . We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children. We diminish and even hold in contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a family.” He also railed about how “our kids would rather have ear buds dangling from their ears, fingers attaching to a smartphone, and face attached to a computer screen” and “we teach that God was not involved in our origins, that our very lives are biological happenstances.”


Moral Decay, and Everything Else (except Guns and Rock & Roll, of course)
Ted Nugent in Washington Times
...The heart of the matter is that our Humpty Dumpty culture has taken a great fall.

Like an iceberg, we only periodically see the psychotic manifestation, the tip of our shattered culture, but what lies just beneath the surface is a gigantic cultural cancer that is rotting America from within.

The ugly and dangerous truth is that we live in an embarrassing, politically correct culture that exalts and rejoices in the bizarre; aggressively promotes an “anything goes” value system; and vilifies, condemns and mocks traditional societal values and customs at every opportunity.

We’ve embraced a culture of contempt that attacks the very institutions that make for a healthy and strong society, and then we’re shocked when it spirals out of control. The only thing I’m shocked about is that anybody is shocked.

More laws and more restrictions won’t fix our culture. The problem we face is much deeper and more insidious. What ails us is a spiritual bankruptcy of cultural values that actually matter. More laws and restrictions can’t cure that.

. . . Meanwhile, somewhere in America, another bug-eyed young man is planning the next massacre.

It Was God's Loving Judgment:
Pastor Bill Eliff of Summit Church in Arkansas, via Right Wing Watch
We look at what has happened recently here in the school shooting and the so many things that have happened in the past few years. If we put all of those in biblical context and surround it with the Scripture we would come to different conclusions about what was happening. I was thinking the other day that God has instituted pain in our body, you know when you get a rusty nail that goes up to the sole of your foot that’s a real good thing that you feel pain because it causes you to make an adjustment. God’s judgment is like that. It’s a loving God saying to us when judgment comes to a nation it is God saying, wake up, you have walked away from me and I have loved you and I have so much desire to protect you but when you walk away you forfeit that.

There is No Meaning, except for King Herod and the Pennsylvania Indians, who were Just as Bad as the Media
Mark Steyn on National Review
I will save my own personal theories, no doubt as ignorant and irrelevant as everybody else’s, until after Christmas — except to note that the media’s stampede for meaning in massacre this last week overlooks the obvious: that the central meaning of these acts is that they are without meaning. Herod and the Pennsylvania Indians murdered children in pursuit of crude political goals; the infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow act of public suicide. Like most mass shootings, his was an exercise in hyper-narcissism — 19th-century technology in the service of a very contemporary sensibility.



Wednesday, September 5, 2012

GOP Theocrat Hypocrites Bash Dems as Godless

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I think it’s rather peculiar. It’s not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. I’d guess you’d have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government. I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of God.
~ Paul Ryan on Fox News Via Politico

God bless you, and God bless America.
~ First Lady Michelle Obama at the DNC

“Mitt Romney has so little economic patriotism that even his money needs a passport. It summers on the beaches of the Cayman Islands and winters on the slopes of the Swiss Alps. In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.
~ Ex-Gov of Ohio Ted Strickland on Day One of DNC

He might also have quoted Matthew 23:27, which encapsulates Mitt's character and his little buddy Lyin' Ryan::" Woe unto ye, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For yes are like unto a whited sepulchre, which is pleasing on the outside, but within is full of dead men's bones and everything unclean."
~ comment by Phil Weltner on Talking Points Memo

"Nature's God" and the word "Creator" each appear once in the Declaration of Independence. The word "God" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
Those are the founding documents.
This guy's a pathological liar!
~ comment by risejugger on Washington Post

Democratic Platform Section on "Faith":
Faith has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history. We know that our nation, our communities, and our lives are made vastly stronger and richer by faith and the countless acts of justice and mercy it inspires. Faith- based organizations will always be critical allies in meeting the challenges that face our nation and our world – from domestic and global poverty, to climate change and human trafficking. People of faith and religious organizations do amazing work in communities across this country and the world, and we believe in lifting up and valuing that good work, and finding ways to support it where possible. We believe in constitutionally sound, evidence-based partnerships with faith-based and other non-profit organizations to serve those in need and advance our shared interests. There is no conflict between supporting faith-based institutions and respecting our Constitution, and a full commitment to both principles is essential for the continued flourishing of both faith and country."


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Why do I feel like I have suddenly been transported back to the Puritan pilgrim era?????
Personally, I am willing to bet that most people who are not always parading their so called faith 24/7 are less hypocritical and kinder than these CINOs - Christians in Name Only.
Ryan needs to live more by the Golden Rule. The US is not and was not meant to be a theocracy
~ comment by LabelQueen on Politico

Special note: A political party is not a theological discussion group or priesthood. Please take off your hair shirt Mr. Ryan, it might make it easier to recognize the truth.
~ comment by Bruce H. on Politico

This constant liar and hate monger has the audacity to call himself a good Christian. Jesus must be very sad that this Ryan pretends to be his representative.
~ comment by Larnan on Politico

How quickly Ryan swept his Randian views under the rug
~ comment by progressivepants on Politico

Why doesn't Ryan believe in helping the poor?
~ comment by brg on Politico

Platform = Policy. You can't make Religion a Policy in pluralistic, freedom of religion society, Mr. Lyin Ryan!
~ comment by Gorette on Daily Kos

God was IN every speech too... every time someone spoke about feeding the hungry, helping the needy, housing the homeless GOD was in the speech... every time loving thy neighbor and caring for families was spoken about GOD was in the speech... every single person who spoke about WE instead of ME was speaking of God's teachings
Jesus clearly said keep God and Gov separate... render unto God that which is his domain... and PAY YOUR TAXES so the poor can eat and the homeless can have shelter and the less fortunate can find comfort
to Demand that a specific number of meaningless references to a Deity was absent from the Dem convention was the ultimate GODLESSNESS the gop lives by.
God was attending the Dem Convention last night... at the GOP convention there was nothing but an empty chair.
~ comment by KnotIookin on Daily Kos

I will donate $1,000 to Karl Rove's Super Pac if anyone can find the word "God" in the US Constitution.
~ comment by Blicero on Daily Kos

It's One Thing To Blab About God Constantly, it's another to actually "love one another as I have loved you" & "you are your brother's keeper".
Dems don't just talk about God, they actually are charitable.
Wonder how many times "abortion" appeared in the Republican platform?
Obviously, they are green w/ envy over the way last night went. As Arianna Huffington said "it made Tampa look like amateur hour".
~ comment by snapples on Daily Kos

It's no wonder the Republicans pray so much. They have more to atone for than you can shake a stick at.
~ comment by Stephanie P. on Think Progress

and the RNC never once mentioned our troops! what's that about?
~ comment by Barbra Gail G. on Think Progress

Although the right wing nuts think they have a monopoly on God, it's just more proof of just how tone deaf and self-centered they are these days.
~ comment by Kim C. on Think Progress

By the way, the Republicans are attempting to create a fascist state. All indications are there: merging church and state along with creating a corporate state.
An anti-woman, anti-gay Christo-fascist Dominionist America. No different than the Taliban.
~ comment by Brianna A. on Think Progress