Minister delivers divisive invocation at McCain event. (Updated with audio)
Minister delivers divisive invocation at McCain event. (Updated with audio)
The Iowa Independent reports that a minister who spoke at John McCain’s rally in Davenport, IA today injected a divisive statement into his invocation. Here’s what Pastor Arnold Conrad said:
I would also add, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and election day.
UPDATE: Listen to Conrad’s remarks here:
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holy crap.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pmHindu is a god? Bad enough he’s confused about the Buddah, but “Hindu”? Who’s that?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pmFirst of all Buddha and “Hindu” (??) are not gods. Second Allah is just the Arabic word for God. Third pastor Conrad, you’re a God damn idiot
October 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pmI never realized that the Christian God was so insecure,that it was worried about its size or reputation. My inbox is full of offers to increase one’s potency that I could forward to the Lord if that would help.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pmWhy do these people hate our country? The Founders wanted a seperation of church and state, and yet these freaks want to create a theocracy.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:25 pmI didn’t realise the Christian god was a Republican, and that he cared so deeply about the outcome of the elections in the US.
With an entire universe to keep track of, you’d think the Christian god would have bigger things to worry about.
Petty gods are for petty people.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pmFrom “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain in 1904. Nothing’s changed, apparently.
Oh, and help my football team make the playoffs…
October 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pmBush/Cheney all way down to Rumsfeld have always thought this was Christian vs. Muslim. If they only knew how scared and weak they look they would quickly see why only a few idiots respect them.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:30 pmGreat Frybread King Says:
Why do these people hate our country?
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Because they’re frightened, ignorant people who’ve convinced themselves they’ll be kept safe by appealing to the mythological character of their choice. There’s always been a strain of this in American politics… the Know-Nothings are back.
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0233110-00
Know-Nothing Movement
Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. It was organized to oppose the great wave of immigrants who entered the United States after 1846. Know-Nothings claimed that the immigrants—who were principally Irish and Roman Catholic—threatened to destroy the American experiment. The Roman Catholic church, they charged, was subservient to a foreign prince (the pope), it was growing in power, and it potentially could exert political control over a large group of people. Such nativist sentiments had long existed among many Americans, but they had never before been expressed in such powerful form.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:32 pmMinister delivers divisive invocation at McCain event.
- - Pastor Conrad just blew his argument for Intelligent Design.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pmGregor Samsa Says:
I didn’t realise the Christian god was a Republican, and that he cared so deeply about the outcome of the elections in the US.
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Got narcissism?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pmHe threatens God like a child who wants a toy.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pmI’ve said this before and I will say it again: If the destiny of a nation (from the election of its leaders, to the decisions made by said leaders) is determined not by its people but by a god, what is the point of having elections at all?
What is the point of experience, when all a leader-to-be needs is to have the favor of the gods?
Better let the gods make all the important decisions, while we sit in front of our TV sets, watching American Idol -or some other mind-numbing show.
ChristoFascists are such a medieval, superstitious, self-centered lot.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pmI have some bad news for them:
Liberal. –In the King James version of the bible, “liberal” is a good word. The word “conservative” appears nowhere in the bible.
“The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” (Proverbs 11:25) “The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.” (Isaiah 32:5) “But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.” (Isaiah 32:8) “Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men . . . Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.” (II Corinthians 9:13-15)
Do they even read the bible?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pmlurker Says:
Do they even read the bible?
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Hey… hume skoolin’ werks jest fine…
October 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pmIs he telling God what to do? Is he saying that if God doesn’t do what he wants then God is a failure?
doesn’t mcchimpy know any normal people?
No offense, but cindy looks, talks and acts like a lying crackhead, plain is a lying dimwitted floozy, too much make-up, clothes are too tight.
the repug party time is up. they can call themselves anything they want, it will still remain the garbage party.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:40 pmIn football, this sort of gesture is called a “Hail Mary pass” and is only attempted when you’re sure you’re going to lose unless something miraculous occurs…
October 11th, 2008 at 3:42 pmHopefully the God that didn’t rain on Sen. Obama’s acceptance speech is still available.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:43 pmWhat kind of “god” has to worry about its reputation?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:43 pmWhat kind of utter fuuking stupidity is going on here?
I give you Epicurus of Samos, circa 300, BCE:
The Republic of Stupidity Says
Yea just like “abstinence only”.
I think that all thoes how believe the bible is without
October 11th, 2008 at 3:46 pmerror bla bla bla 6000yr old earth bla bla should have to use the only “approved” healing pratice in the bible which is:
“Anoint with oil and pray”
lurker Says:
Do they even read the bible?
Man, they not only read it, they freekin’ STUDY the stupid thing. They quote it, like the Koran…er…
October 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pmI got it the first time I read it.
It’s not that hard.
Plus, if God wrote it, there’s only one right way anyway.
Right?
So once is gotta be enough…
The world was a better place when GOD was DEAD.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pmSomeone please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Allah, Jehovah, YHVH or whatever the heck you wish to call Him… aren’t they the same “God” with different followers?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:50 pmHe is appealing to his god, to take off the gloves and fight the other religion’s gods.
Is this an advertisement for Bill Maher’s movie, Religiousity?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pmDesparation has now officially hit the McDepends/Flailin campaign.
Where are all our trollies to rise up and defend this great Repug god fest?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pmI get your sarcasm but would add that what you said also explains why there are so many just christain sects….they don’t agree on much.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pmJust remember, all you God-fearing right wingers out there, if Obama wins, it’s God’s will.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pmThere are some other fundies who are praying for mccain to win
October 11th, 2008 at 3:55 pmand then “smite” him so scarah can take over.
chris joseph Says:
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong…
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As far as I can tell, kind of… I know anyone who’s really, really studied theology will prolly roast me for that, but… as far as I’ve figured out, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all use the same five books from the Old testament as a starting point. The Pentateuch?
Apparently one of the divisive issues is how each religion sees Jesus. to Christians, he’s the One, the Son of God. Muslims say yeah, he was a prophet, but just one of many, going back all the way to Abraham. And as far as jews are concerned, Jesus was just a pretentious nobody…
Why such silly distinctions are considered a valid reason for CENTURIES of bloody religious warfare is beyond me.
Hoooookay, having said all that, let the throwing of the stones begin!
October 11th, 2008 at 3:56 pmAnd methinks this pastor ought to be asking his god to allow people to stay in their homes -rather than lose them to foreclosure, and for those who have already lost their houses and jobs, to find a way to put food on their tables, and a roof over their heads, for themselves and their families.
But this “minister” is more concerned about what other people may think if his candidate doesn’t win the election. What an arrogant, fatuous moron.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pmGood! When Obama creams these guys on election day, we’ll know which god(s) won!
Idiots. The one group of people who should really go and re-read Matthew - particularly the part where Jesus entreats his followers to not be like those who pray in public to enhance their public standing, and keep their faith personal. These “Ministers” serve no good, particularly God’s good.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
In football, this sort of gesture is called a “Hail Mary pass” and is only attempted when you’re sure you’re going to lose unless something miraculous occurs…
Check out the article Dr. Hussein Matt posted a few articles down:concerning a Republican Revolution; What Will You Do If the Election is Stolen?
As we know, the repukes are not a balanced group…we may be seeing more than a Hail Mary pass.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:00 pmMy fav to use against anti-abortion kooks:
October 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pmPsalm 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Pretty pro-life!
Guess there must be a midwestern cracker god of which we were previously unaware. I assume that was the deity to whom the right reverend Conrad made his appeal.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:08 pmThey have to stir up a crusade because reason and honesty would not help them.
What’s the deal with thinking you need to influence something you believe to be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent? God’s little busybodies are a strange species. And why do they repeat their prayers? Is God hard of hearing or forgetful?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pmInteresting story of how tax money was used by Palin as governor for religious activities, including charging the state for travel and per diem expense for a religious speech.
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God’s will from the governor’s office.
What she didn’t tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees.
http://hosted.ap.org/ dynamic/ stories/ P/ PALIN_CHURCH_AND_STATE?SITE=TXWIC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
October 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pmThis is getting very ridiculous.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pmlet’s all sing together now:
“my god’s bigger than your god,
my god’s bigger than yours,
my god’s bigger cause he’s a republican,
my god’s bigger than yours.”
unh hunhh….right
October 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pmI would also like to point out to republicans:
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Can you tell I’m an atheist?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pmI hope this minister pays taxes…..
October 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pmlurker, you are an atheist because you probably actually take Jesus seriously.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pmunlike. some. christians.
hey, did anyone else see Religulous last night? oh, Bill Maher…
will someone in the federal government please start taxing these delusional parasites?*
*the bible-to-ballot box preachers, that is. anyone misguided enough to follow is already being hit up
October 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pmjoe in oklahoma Says:
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lurker, you are an atheist because you probably actually take Jesus seriously.
unlike. some. christians.
Good words are good whatever book they are in.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pmSlightly o/T; Representative John Lewis, revered civil rights activist calls out McCain and Palin for their racist smears against Obama. Excellent. Right on. And what is the Royal McCain’s response? He gets all huffy and offended. Me? Heck of a hate-flame fanner, there Johnnie…
October 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pmgalmud Says:
First of all Buddha and “Hindu” (??) are not gods. Second Allah is just the Arabic word for God. Third pastor Conrad, you’re a God damn idiot
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Man you are not kidding. I mean forget the bigotry that is just WORLD CLASS stupid right there.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pmhad enough Says:
As we know, the repukes are not a balanced group…we may be seeing more than a Hail Mary pass.
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Yeah… I’ve been trolling rightie blogs of late, checking out the mood… a little too much smacky-smack getting talked over there right now. Itchy trigger fingers, the inflating of the scrotums like bullfrogs, so on and son and so on… it’d be funny if they weren’t so serious. They really think they’re in a civil war.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pmThis pastor has me confused. When he says “millions of people around the word praying to their god”, does he mean they have different gods?
He doesn’t appear to be denying that these other people’s gods exist. Yet he says “their” god. I suppose he could mean the same god he prays to, but it doesn’t sound like it.
Forget that he got the names wrong for a moment… I wonder if someone could get him to clarify…is he saying he acknowledges the existence of multiple gods in the universe?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pmchris joseph Says:
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Allah, Jehovah, YHVH or whatever the heck you wish to call Him… aren’t they the same “God” with different followers?
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There is no question that Allah of the Koran IS the God of Abraham Jacob and Isaac. The God of the old testament. You cant really CALL yourself a Muslim if you reject the old testament prophets.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pmEnnuiDivine Says:
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hey, did anyone else see Religulous last night? oh, Bill Maher…
October 11th, 2008 at 4:32 pmI saw it last week. I loved the Muslim preacher (Imum?)
while they were in some Mosque when his phone went off
and his ring tone was “chasmere by Led zep..” LMAO
MrSquirrel Says:
… is he saying he acknowledges the existence of multiple gods in the universe?
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Hey, this is good for Religion, Inc… multiple gods = multiple revenue streams!
Let’s face it, politics and religion work just like sports. If there aren’t competing teams, we, the fans, have no game to watch, and the players have no source of income.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pmEugeneDebs Says:
There is no question that Allah of the Koran IS the God of Abraham Jacob and Isaac.
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Yeah.. well who’s the God of Larry, Curley, and Moe? Huh? Answer that one…
October 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pmDo they even read the bible?
What we are dealing here with are Christianists — not Christians.
Christians read the bible and use it to inform their own lives.
Christianists quote the bible to tell others how they should live theirs.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pmSometimes God answers prayers with “No”.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pmThis is a thinly-veiled attempt by a crazed right-wing pastor to say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, is different, is not one of us, not an American citizen, not Christian.
Notice how he left out Europe and the vast majority of Christians in Europe who are hoping and praying that Barack Obama is elected president.
So, this pastor is being lying and deceitful, and if you asked him if his “God” is lying and deceitful, he’d sputter and say “No, it’s the anti-God that is lying and deceitful,” which would actually help pinpoint which “God” he is really following, for it certainly isn’t the “God” that was taught about by Jesus Christ, who was hardly lying and deceitful.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pmAs a person of faith who is NOT voting for McCain, I found an email address for Rev. Conrad at InterimPastors.com and sent him the following message, using language he might understand:
Dear Rev. Conrad,
I don’t know about Asians praying for Obama, but this white evangelical U.S. Christian is praying that God liberate us from the shackles of the GOP! I have had enough of the greed and arrogance and lack of compassion shown by Republicans over the past 28 years — as Ezekiel 16 says, this nation has outdone Sodom under their leadership.
In Christ who is Lord of all Creation,
October 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pmbp
God is not a politician. And nobody has been given the authority to speak for God last I looked. This has nothing to do with religion and God, but it has a lot to do with corrupt politicians, fear, smear and power struggle. The Republicans are trying to rule God.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:45 pmNot only is it a strange concept that God needs to guard his reputation, but it is strange that he will only do so if we remind him (prayer) that it needs to be done.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pmYO MOOSLEMS!
OUR GOD CAN BEAT UP YOUR GOD!!
WHADDAYA THINK OF THAT???
October 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pmRightwingnutjobs. What would the world be without them…?
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:48 pm” I call on the great Flying spaghetti monster to smite
October 11th, 2008 at 4:48 pmthem with his noodley appendages”
Our god will smite your god. So there!
October 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pmSheesh, guys, where’s Darryl?
Dang, Ralph, we hardly ever get to play Whack-A-Troll™ anymore… ‘n after I go out ‘n blow all my hard-earned pistoolahs on this new-fangled, high-tech Super TrollBuster2000 Pro Model Mallet…
October 11th, 2008 at 4:58 pmI sher hope I’m not the only one who thinks “White Peepul” are gonna start a shooting war if Obama wins in Nov.
The vitriol in the comments on that odious “What Will You Do…” site leads me to clean my pistolas…
October 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pmWhen christians come to my door I always talk to them.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pmThe first thing I ask them is “at what point in your
life did you study all religions and decide to pick
christanty, or are you one because your parents are?”
They usually give me a blank look and go away.
So if Obama wins, then does that mean other Gods are more powerful than your God, Pastor Doofus? And I thought there was only one God, anyway, right? So if he or she lets Obama win, might that mean you’ve been wrong?
October 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pmThese total losers who think religions trumps the president are so sick. So un-American. So unpatriotic. They are the truie home-grown terrorists.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:17 pmViking Says:
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So if Obama wins, then does that mean other Gods are more powerful than your God, Pastor Doofus? And I thought there was only one God, anyway, right? So if he or she lets Obama win, might that mean you’ve been wrong?
They like to praise him for the “good” and then when “bad”
October 11th, 2008 at 5:18 pmstuff happens they say he works in “mysterious ways”?
I actually saw a “God/McCain/Palin” bumper sticker the other day. There is some good news though.
When one looks at who is likely to be in a crowd that applauds this crap, one is left with the 20%ers who would vote for Satan himself if he put an (R) after his name. The GOP is marginalizing itself by continually pandering to the far-right fringe.
As for anyone who deserves the honorable title “Christian”? Those fine people are busy praying that all good people can be rescued from the multiple catastrophes that Bushco has inflicted on us and the world. And patriots are praying for a peaceful change in power so we can make one last, desperate, attempt at saving the American experiment from the insanity of Reichwing Evangelicons.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:19 pmWow. All I can say is “Jesus H. Christ!!”
October 11th, 2008 at 5:35 pmI will be so happy when Obama takes office and this group of religious right conservatives who have hijacked our country are finally ousted out of public office.
pete Says:
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I actually saw a “God/McCain/Palin” bumper sticker the other day. There is some good news though.
Yea mccan’t/palin are in bad shape. The “Hate Talk Express”
October 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pmneeds a tow truck. If mccain had a shread honor of left he would fire everyone including palin. Put a small staff together with Sen liarman as VP. just to finish out the race.
TRoS, tough timing on the new stick…I bet she looks fearsome when she’s glinting in the setting sun, huh? I don’t now what’s going on with the trolls. dbadass and I have been tossing theories back and forth. My current favorite theory is that the McSame campaign is adapting the Palin Strategery to the Troll Dept.
Y’know… keep ‘em outa sight, only let ‘em out to post at friendly websites, that sorta thing.
Either that or they’re all too depressed to get outa bed in the morning.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pmGOD doesnt vote.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pmyeah, I was wondering the same thing, where are the trolls? Out there somewhere smelling the coffee at last?
October 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pmGod is too busy to save his reputation… between blessing touchdowns at football games today and tomorrow, his schedule is full.
Not only that, God gets conflicted when members of opposite teams ask for the same blessing… then God has to figure out who God likes best. That’s hard work.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pmlurcker:
I fear that all that was once honorable about John McCain has been lost in his transformation into Flippy McSpin. And he’s always made a habit of talking like a moderate while voting as a lockstep Reichwhiner.
I really have to wonder if the “Maverick” image would have survived if he had been nominated in 2000. Perhaps the movers and shakers of the GOP knew what a rotten candidate he would be? Lord knows he has a history of “cracking” under pressure.
I’m beginning to see his nomination as a complete sham. The GOP cons McSpin into selling his soul for an unsupportable nomination. They saddle him with the Bimbo Borealis as a running mate. And they structure the entire platform to appeal to the fringe fanatics.
They keep the sheeple in a frightened flock and rid themselves of the often embarrassing “Maverick” in one move. Then, they have the option of taking the position that McSpin wasn’t radical enough, or Bible Spice was too radical, when they run a “real” campaign in 2012. The hardcore 20%er morons won’t care.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:50 pmSo it was Obama’s fault that McCain went negative because Obama didn’t attend townhall meetings with McCain.
And NOW it is God’s fault if God doesn’t “step up to the plate” and answer the prayers of all republicans.
Maybe some day republicans will take the responsibility of the mess they’ve caused and stop blaming other people.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:50 pmVerbalKint Says:
yeah, I was wondering the same thing, where are the trolls? Out there somewhere smelling the coffee at last?
I think we need to give the credit to TP. I have no idea how they did it, and they’ve been mighty quiet about it, but they appear to have virtually ended troll infestations here.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:51 pmIt would take a pretty brave Troll to defend the proposition that God is a Republican.
Sen. Obama has run a nearly Flawless Campaign.
Sen. McCain has painted himself into a Corner. By throwing red meat to their Base, they are driving the Independent voters into Obama’s Camp.
Karl Rove’s mouth talks smart, but his eyes look very worried.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:59 pmAh yes! The missing trolls.
I suppose it could be environmental. Nothing lives long in a superfund site like troll habitat, and tornadoes hate trailers. Global warming and such. Or…
it could be the GOP campaign has run out of money to waste on something so idiotic. Why did they concede Michigan if they aren’t hurting for cash? Where is that last check for $.10? Or…
deep, black, depression and inability to face the inevitable. Or…
Mommy is forcing them to learn fractions, even though the Rapture could happen any day, and they haven’t the time or energy to bug adults.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:59 pmhave you seen this yet?
Oklahoma forces women undergoing abortion to view their fetuses
Food Consumer - 1 hour ago
By Sue Mueller Saturday October 11, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — An advocate group sued the state of Oklahoma over legislation that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she undergoes an ultrasound first.
Pro-Abortion Advocacy Group Challenges Oklahoma Law Requiring … AHN
Okla. abortion ultrasound requirement challenged The Associated Press
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all 87 news articles »
… no words…
October 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pmAnd, of course, there’s the obvious answer. The trolls may have been crushed in a tragic bridge collapse. Poor little buggers.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:01 pmI can’t help feeling that if this election ends up being a close contest (or god forbid we have the crap like 4 years ago) people are going to be taking to the streets. the way things are going, this could get VERY ugly. I may not know what I am talking about, but it doesn’t feel like the losers are going away without their pound of flesh.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:04 pmPraying to a non-existant, magical, invisible faerie in the sky isn’t going to do anything for McCorrupt and Lying Palin.
Pray in one hand, and take a crap in the other, see which one fills up first.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:11 pmWell, since he is worried about other folks thinking their gods are “bigger” that his god (and funny how it always comes back to size), he seems to be acknowledging a certain polytheistic perspective, no?
[Note that he said “And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens,” and not that “there is no other God than you…”]
When the hell has the Christian god even worried about his rep? I mean com’on. Between pillars of stone, global flooding, and eternal hellfire, why would any Christian think that god had to protect his rep?
Boy, these folks are losing it faster than a cow let loose in a stool softener factory.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pmgreenpagan Says:
Rightwingnutjobs. What would the world be without them…?
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better.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
TRoS, tough timing on the new stick…I bet she looks fearsome when she’s glinting in the setting sun, huh?
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Tell me about, Ralph… I’m beginning to feel a bit like that guy who goes sport fishing and ends up having his picture taken holding up a 5″ bass…
“Gee, is that the best ya can do, pardner?”
Here’s a theory, boys… ‘member back a couple o’ months ago, when the RNC “discovered” belatedly, very, very belatedly, that one of the Party officials had cleaned them out?
Perhaps, more specifically, he absconded w/ the RNC’s dedicated Trolling Funds… hence, the severe cost-cutting measures we’ve all commented on of late… less trolls, and of a decidedly lower quality.
Or perhaps… the poor li’l fellers are just too dispirited to come out and try anymore. I mean, would YOU voluntarily identify yourself as a GOOPer these days? If you didn’t have to?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:17 pmSo we know McCain/Palin’s strategy for next week now. Palin’s backed off of her violence-inciting terrorist rhetoric and is out riling up the mob about abortion because heaven knows THAT topic doesn’t set off violent fanatics, and McCain is going to try to appeal to the last remaining vestige of rightwingy support he can muster–the enraptured rapturists and their illiterate shepherds. Me thinks it is time to take away some tax exempt statuses.
I thought these people were anxiously awaiting the Last Days. If they’re so sure Obama is going to bring them on and they see the fulfillment of (make believe) prophecy in his candidacy, shouldn’t they be voting for him?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pmI wonder. Will the sick freaks start a 70 week “Rapture clock” when, if my little faith pans out, Obama is elected?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pmI hope McCain realizes that choosing this pastor connects his campaign and his character to these outrageous statement. Just like the phony “Obama-Ayers” connection…
http://sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
October 11th, 2008 at 6:31 pmSo does mean that if Obama wins the good Pastor will give up since his reputation is ruined and he is just a wuss?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:38 pmOne can’t help but ask, “how many of the good pastors parishioners, whipped into a frenzy by his blather, have committed violent acts of domestic terrorism”?
For that matter. When are radical Christian Fundamentalists going to be held to the same “hate-speech” standard as other faiths? How many mindless thugs, programmed for violence by their preachers, wander our streets? How long will good, caring, rational, Christians tolerate the perversion of Christ as a Warrior God?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:53 pmMommy why do repugs call the progressives/liberals/the left looney when the repugs have the kkk, separatist, bombers, buttholes, hagee, Jews for Jesus, troopergate, gits and trolls?
Sen. Obama is what I need a lot of.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pmHey Rev. It ain’t the meat, its the motion.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:11 pmGame of Life Says:
Mommy why do repugs call the progressives/liberals/the left looney when the repugs have the kkk, separatist, bombers, buttholes, hagee, Jews for Jesus, troopergate, gits and trolls?
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It’s called “projection”…
From our good friends at Wiki:
In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.
This is also why GOOPers fear and hate “teh gay” soooo acutely.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:16 pmMcCain is responsible for the rhetorical tone being set by his campaign and the threats being made at Obama at McCain rallies.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:21 pmRepeated statements in news interviews, like, “We don’t want a negative campaign that’s why we don’t talk about the terrorists that maybe Obama hangs out, we don’t know what he’s up to.”
These statements on the Senate floor would cause censure.
Therefore the senate needs to begin Censure Hearings. I heard calls to Feinstein’s office calling for hearings have been enormous.
Ever Faux news has :
Obama 46%
McCain 39%
According to electoral-vote:
Obama 343 McCain 184 Ties 11
Projected Senate: Dem 59 GOP 41
October 11th, 2008 at 7:24 pmtokin librul Says:
The vitriol in the comments on that odious “What Will You Do…” site leads me to clean my pistolas…
I somehow ended up on a Fox News blog site where they were discussing how we were going to steal the election thanks to ACORN. Apparently they believe that ACORN can register the same guy 72 times and get away with it and then that guy is going to vote 72 times. Anyway, I read some of the comments there. I felt immediately like I needed to take a shower to wash off the stench.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pmlurker Says:
I have some bad news for them:
Liberal. –In the King James version of the bible, “liberal” is a good word. The word “conservative” appears nowhere in the bible.
“The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” (Proverbs 11:25) “The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.” (Isaiah 32:5) “But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.” (Isaiah 32:8) “Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men . . . Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.” (II Corinthians 9:13-15)
Do they even read the bible?
Unfortunately even the King James Bible was not immune to liberal bias…It must suck being a conservative, seeing that even the book they adore is against them…/snark
October 11th, 2008 at 7:42 pmGod don’t show up in court. God has no place in the government. Everywhere else, believe and do what thou wilt, so long as it doesn’t interfere with the liberties of others. Secular government—is that really such a tall order?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:46 pmgummitch Says:
I think we need to give the credit to TP. I have no idea how they did it, and they’ve been mighty quiet about it, but they appear to have virtually ended troll infestations here.
I don’t think that’s it. I have noticed a lack of trolls at other sites like the Huffington Post. I think that the trolls are just really tired and discouraged. The fun has gone out of it. And, then, they aren’t getting paid any longer so why should they waste their time?
I’m wondering when Obama will announce his take for September. It must be awesome if he is buying up 30 minute blocks of time on many stations.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pmWell I had to break the 100th post mark with yet another
“sweet jesus” verse:
Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Maybe this is where they get their rage?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:49 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I somehow ended up on a Fox News blog site where they were discussing how we were going to steal the election thanks to ACORN. […] Anyway, I read some of the comments there. I felt immediately like I needed to take a shower to wash off the stench.
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Yeah… I was at the same blog, Bilbo. I had the same reaction, too. I would have posted a comment here sooner, but I just got out of the shower.
‘Cuse me fellers, I gotta go burn some clothes now… damn… that smell is NEVER comin’ outta that shirt… ‘n that one was my fave…
October 11th, 2008 at 8:28 pmdid he just call God a pussy?
October 11th, 2008 at 8:41 pmI don’t think I will ever understand how they can be assured in their Faith if they are so paranoid. A logical person, looking at how they operate, would be forced to think that they are convinced Jebus will kill them (by mistake?) if they don’t hate unbelievers enough.
And, it would seem, that “unbelievers” are anyone who doesn’t buy the crap a particular insane preacher is pushing. Though I’m sure there are more than a few who sit in genuine churches holding hate in their hearts without the benefit of an overtly xenophobic dogma.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pmThat crap was just jibberish from a religious nut!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:49 pmWell, I knew it was gibberish when I saw it was from a religulous source…
October 11th, 2008 at 10:26 pmI found an email address for Rev. Conrad at InterimPastors.com and sent him the following message, using language he might understand:
Great idea. I sent him one too:
Dear Pastor Conrad,
I must say that as a Christian, I found your invocation in Davenport today offensive.
What did you mean, when you said, “There are plenty of people around the world who are praying to their god, be they Hindu, Buddah, or Allah, that his opponent wins. I pray that you step forward and honor your own name.”?
It seems to imply that you think God is, or should be, on the side of Mr. McCain, while only people of other religions think otherwise. Your words make it sound as if the non-Christian world is praying to their god for Mr. Obama to win, against God’s wishes.
Your words not only insult millions of devout and faithful Christians, including Mr. Obama and myself, but they insult Christianity as a whole. They make God seem like some petty arbiter of your personal wishes. Your appeals to God’s “reputation” (?) , and the honor of His name, clearly imply that you believe that these are questions upon which He would need your advice.
The concept that God would need your urging to protect His own honor and reputation by bestowing victory upon your chosen political candidate borders on sacrilege. Perhaps I have misinterpreted your words, but those are the strong impressions they convey, even upon serious reflection. I without doubt would be ashamed to be associated with any sect of Christianity that would impel me to endorse such words.
Sincerely,
October 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pmA fellow Christian
This Conrad fella prays to his God with a threat saying basically,
“Your reputation is on the line here Buddy Jesus and I don’t know if I can believe in you if those OTHER Gods let Obama win so you BETTER get on the ball or else! ‘Cause if I find out HIS GOD is BIGGER than you, well, I’m just gonna to take my hypocritical ass of a self home and get me a hooker or 6 just like Falwell, Baker and Haggart! You hear me Jesus!?!? Don’t make me, Jesus! Don’t make me!”
October 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pmGotta love how McIIIrd is using this tool. More Xianinsanity.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pmThis is a truly frightening item. My religion or nothing, these freaks keep saying. Jesus would be very, very upset with them.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:23 amChristian soldiers believe if you pray hard enough, god will kill your enemies for you - even if they’re Christians (of one of the lesser denominations).
God also accepts prayers for lottery numbers, football scores and other sporting events.
The Democratic Party is a lot like a box of chocolates; you’re never sure where the nuts are - whereas the Republican Party is a lot like a chocolate fudge sundae, they tend to put the biggest nuts on top.
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October 12th, 2008 at 9:36 amThe mark of ‘the beast’ is just a bad haircut.
What galmud said (#3).
Any clergyperson who thinks that Muslims and Christians pray to different Gods needs to return to seminary for a lil refresher.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:32 pmJefferson’s words inscribe on his memorial:
Do TPers agree with Jefferson and agree these liberties are a gift of God?
If these liberties aren’t a gift from God, from where do they originate and what are we, U.S. Citizens, doing to insure these liberties are passed to our posterity?
October 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am