Christians to Begin Inauguration Day Thanking God for Bush Reelection

[truthpusher]

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc0118.htm

Christians to Begin Inauguration Day Thanking God for Bush Reelection

To: National Desk

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Scores of Christian ministers and lay people in Washington for Inauguration Day festivities will begin Thursday by holding an early morning prayer service in thanksgiving to God for the reelection of George W. Bush.

Faith and Action, a Christian mission to elected and appointed officials, will host a one-hour prayer service at its Capitol Hill headquarters, just across the street from the US Supreme Court and a block from the US Capitol, where Mr. Bush will be sworn in for a second term.

"No president is perfect," said Rev. Rob Schenck, president of Faith and Action, "but George Bush has done more than any recent president to champion what is important to serious Christians of every tradition: The Sanctity of Human Life, the Sanctity of Marriage and the public acknowledgement of God. We're thankful that God heard our cries and gave us four more years of a Bush administration."

Following the prayer service, the group will attend the swearing in ceremony at the US Capitol and watch the Inaugural parade, concluding their day with a black tie soiree back at their headquarters building where author David Aikman will autograph copies of his book Man of Faith, a religious biography of Mr. Bush.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc0118.htm

[yardwork]

1. What a display of false piety

[louis-t]

2. Barf alert.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Yep

:puke:

[saigon68]

26. Will JayZeus appear and Bless the Bush Crime family?

Will Jayzeus appear and provide Condominium Rice with a cure for her severe overbite?

[egoprofit]

44. i just pooped on myself and my chair

[KamaAina]

3. Did God vote on a Diebold machine?

see, that way they'd know S/He voted for Bush** :-)

Where's S/He registered to vote, anyway? Satan is presumably a resident of Hell, Mich., but where would God live?

[louis-t]

21. I've been to Hell

Michigan. Not a bad place, really. Sorta redneck.

[placton]

38. Paradise MI

[jeff30997]

4. "No president is perfect,"

And this one is the most imperfect president ever.

[Lerkfish]

5. as a christian, I say....

:grr: :puke:

[Just Me]

6. Later, they will repent for their sins. eom

[oneighty]

7. Good job your praying

Now pray to end the wars. Bring our children home.

Let our people go.

180

[Bronco69]

8. Yuck!

:puke:

[darkism]

9. Don't sugarcoat the truth

"George Bush has done more than any recent president to champion what is important to serious Christians of every tradition: The Sanctity of Human Life, the Sanctity of Marriage and the public acknowledgement of God."

AKA...endorsing terrorism against abortion doctors, making sure two guys can't get married and shoving the Christian faith down the public's throat.

All while ordering the deaths of 1300 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. He's been a busy little fuck, hasn't he?

It really is the party of hate.

[Ruffhowse]

10. Ha Ha Ha, these morons think Bush is actually a conservative Christian.

He is SO taking these idiots for a ride. He is using them to expand his own political power base, nothing more. He will throw them a few bones and say all the right little Christian things and they will flock to their silly ass prayer meetings and thank God for Chimpy. Some people are just born to be fleeced. They are so desperate for someone to represent their agenda, they close their minds to the truth. Chimpy is all about diverting the power of our government to concentrate more power and wealth to himself and his fat cat buddies. The religion veneer is just a scam.

[Just Me]

25. Thing is,...I feel sorry for them.

Maybe, I shouldn't feel sorry for zealots that have become what they most fear: persecutors of the innocent and servants to sin.

But,...I do. I just don't think they have a clue and I am better able to forgive and reach out to those who act upon ignorance than those who intentionally manipulate the ignorant for purposes of profit and power.

[atreides1]

39. The Problem

While he's taking them for a ride, he's giving them access to our tax dollars so that they can spread their views of "Christianity".

So, for us, it's going to be a costly ride.

[saltpoint]

11. "No president is perfect..." Rev. Schenck says.

True enough.

Some aren't even sentient beings.

Never having met Rev. Schenck, I am having very little difficulty picturing him and his ilk supervising witch burnings in early colony history.

[genieroze]

16. Rev. Shmuck says...bla, bla, bla,

:puke:

[liberalhistorian]

12. Well, THIS Christian sure

as hell ain't gonna be thanking God, this Christian's going to be praying like crazy for her country that's screwed now with him as president!

[Lisa]

14. meanwhile, a lot of Christians I know will be mourning -- or protesting!

Props to the Unitarians in Reston VA who will be going to DC to "turn our backs on Bush".

[keopeli]

15. let's correct the media - SOME christians

At my church in Seattle, we will be praying for the spiritual power that looks over us to protect us from what is to come. We may not make the papers, but I believe our prayers will have Jesus nodding - uh huh. Maybe she'll even help us out of this crisis.

[Maeve]

20. this isn't the media--it's a "media relations service"

aka--BS pretending to be news.

[Bono71]

22. No kidding...as if all Christians vote in lock step...hardly. n/t

[Massachusetts]

17. Praise Gee Sus

"My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses". Thomas Jefferson


I HOPE SO!

[MisterP]

18. how oddly Revelations-esque!

[Bono71]

19. I'm willing to bet 1/2 the Christians in this country did not vote for *

[keopeli]

27. That might be a little too optimistic, but MUCH closer to truth than ALL

[Mountainman]

23. he Sanctity of Human Life, the Sanctity of Marriage and the public

acknowledgment of God.

All things that the Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government has no business in.

Christians can pray privately to God any second of any day that they want to. The can chose to live their personal lives by what they interpret God wanting them to do.

But they are not satisfied with that. They have to force their beliefs on everyone or they are not happy.

The authors of the Constitution knew that when they wrote the 1st amendment.

What their really want is a theocracy and they want Bush to stack the Supreme Court hoping that the earlier rulings will be overturned.

I think I'll pray to the Goddess on inauguration day to cancel their prayers out.

The fundies have truly made God in their own image and likeness.

[KayLaw]

24. I can see it

I was just imagining Jesus schmoozing with these wheeler-dealers, drinking beer and eating doughnut-stuffed turkey.

:crazy:

[ixion]

28. onward Christian soldiers

march right on that boat and head to Iraq, if you're so gung ho about the coronation of a war criminal, and you support the illegal invasion.

[JetCityLiberal]

29. What a hoax on true Christians

there is NOTHING Christian about bush imho.

He 'uses' his so called Christianity as a get out of jail/hell free card.

JetCityLiberal

[texastoast]

30. "Serious Christians"

"but George Bush has done more than any recent president to champion what is important to serious Christians of every tradition: The Sanctity of Human Life, the Sanctity of Marriage and the public acknowledgement of God."

Oh, and murder. He's done a lot for murder of innocent Iraqis and Americans serving under this phenomenal hypocrite.

Christian, my ass.

:mad:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

31. and they should also have thanked God if Kerry were elected

after all, God will Bless America no matter who is President.... right?

[Larkspur]

32. You mean "The Pharisees Begin Inauguration Day Thanking God for Bush...

Reelection"

There is no Christian who worships Jesus who would thank god for Bush being reelected.

[Redstone]

33. Must...try...very...hard...must...resist....

the temptation to read the posts about what happens at the Coronation over the next couple of days.

These sanctimonious assholes are bad enough, and it'll only go downhill from here.

Where did my America go?

Redstone

[Charlie Brown]

34. Arrogant though they may be

They have every right to do this. If people against Bush can turn their backs on the parade motorcade and chant anti-Bush slogans, then these ministers can say prayers and elate Bush. For those of you who are critical of citizens expressing their opinion, remember that this is the First Amendment in action, and that Free Speech means Freedom for EVERYONE.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

40. It's the hypocrisy

Bush apparently forgot the "thou shalt not kill" part of the bible, as did these idiots.

[Redstone]

41. I agree about free speech for everyone.

Those frothing lunatics are free to express their psychotic views all they want. Absolutely. Nobody should interfere. I don't think anyone here advocates shutting them up.

And we're just as free to hold them up to the ridicule they bring upon themselves for babbling their blabber.

Redstone

[saltpoint]

50. I don't think their first amendment rights are in question.

It's their powers of critical thinking that are in question.

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edit: typo

[shrike]

35. Not this christian

This christian is enraged and has been so since election day. I'm actually getting used to peppering my everyday speech with expletives.

[durablend]

49. Not this one either!

Didn't elect the fraud in the WH who prays to the little man in the toilet tank and calls him "god"

No siree...

[Skip Intro]

36. fucking hypocrites can go straight to hell

100,000+ dead in Iraq at thier chosen one's hands

sanctity of life my a**

[atreides1]

37. GOTT MITT UNS

Sound familiar!!!!!!

[TNOE]

42. Yeah, hopefully while they're praying

God will look down and have pity on their poor stupid ignorant minds - and in the words of Jesus - forgive them for they know not what they do. They are praying and thanking God for delivering the devil himself to them.... and worshipping Bush just like their own personal idol. The scary thing is - these people can't even recognize evil when they see it - oh he said he's a Christian. Good enough for me - All Hail their God Bush. If he really had a personal relationship with God - wouldn't God help him to like maybe be a little smarter, speak a little better, make wiser decisions? Nahhhhhh. These people's thoughts on God must be that he/she is so small - couldn't possibly expect maybe a little wisdom of God's chosen one.

Sad, really really sad. Sadder still is when they all wake up finally after its too late - and finally GET IT.

[joefree1]

43. I thank the Gods too

Not for Bush but for what he will do to the cause of neo-conservative Republicans and Fundamentalist Borg-agains. With his attack on Social Security, the endless war in Iraq, and his talent for pissing off the rest of the world it looks like 2006 and 2008 will be a big win for progressives and earth lovers all over the world. Say good bye Dick.


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[Johnny Noshoes]

54. Fundamentalist Borg-agains

I like that :evilgrin:

[Arkana]

45. Bill Clinton wasn't perfect

but that didn't stop these sick, self-righteous fucks from going after him.

I'm pretty sure that if God could vote, he'd have cast a ballot for the only REALLY pious man in the campaign--Senator Kerry.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

46. These guys give those of us

who may occasionally talk to God a bad name. By the eay, what about those of us who prayed to God to NOT have * elected? :)
These people are too much! Sanctity of Life? * has killed TENS OF THOUSANDS! :mad:

[edbermac]

47. My Inauguration Day prayer...God Bless America...God Damn GW Bush..

:grr:

[maumcc1]

48. Yes and I'm going to start the day asking God

Why? Why? Why? Please save us from this idiot!

[MasonJar]

51. Which Christians are those? This is one Christian that will be

staging protests ion one form or another. Christians are being given a bad name by the Evangelical lobotomies; Jesus would be throwing these bigots out of the church.

[Johnny Noshoes]

55. Christians are being given a bad name by the Evangelical lobotomies

I agree with you. I'm a secular humanist and I've always felt that religious belief is a personal thing that you keep to yourself. It shouldn't be something that you feel the need to shove into someone else's face. If your faith gives you comfort and helps you make it through this life than more power to you. Everyone finds his/her own path in this life and who is to say that any one path is the ONE TRUE path for everyone.


"When you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values....so you keep losing." Howard Dean 2004

[TexasLawyer]

52. FLYER-- George W. Bush and the teachings of Jesus

http://religiousleft.bmgbiz.net/bushandjesus.html

some good, right-back-at-ya Bible quotes.

[egoprofit]

53. obviously these christians only watch cnn

maybe they do not know what really happens in iraq. maybe they do not understand what dubya has done. i feel sorry for them. truly sad.

[Moderator]

56. moving to GD

this is a press release, not a source for LBN.

[Piperay]

57. "The Sanctity of Human Life"

just as long as it is unborn and not Iraqi lives it's of "Christan" importance. x(

[Betty]

58. God had nothing to do with it, assholes

To all born again fundies: get over yourselves

in the words of the immortal Frank Zappa

"Jesus thinks you're a jerk"

[Senator Lamb]

59. of course their thanking god

one step closer to armaegeddon