It's a Miracle

[benevolent dictator]

A Call to Christians –
(My first post*, although I’ve lurked long enough to know that makes me suspect and of unproven credibility… I pray God, I will have the opportunity to post again and gloat with proof of God’s glory in this 2004, Last Election.)

I hope among you there is one with the facility to reach Pat Robertson or Jerry Fallwell or the President and forward my request:
“
PLEASE urge all Christians to demand a recount of votes in Ohio and Florida! The odds against exit polls being as wrong as they were, are two hundred trillion to one. This is not a fluke of improbability. This is direct evidence of the Hand of God taking hold of his children and working a miracle through them. Recount and recount and check and check again. We must urge and demand a recount. We must dispel any possibility of fraud. The votes are cast and they are correct. There has been Divine intervention in this election. Prove now to the world and bare witness to this Miracle. Let them know the power of God and stand in awe.
PLEASE do not let this opportunity to reveal God’s power slip from our fingers. The world awaits this ray of Light in its darkest hour. Prove the vote!
”
God is Truth and Truth is Freedom


DU: Thanks, guys, you’re just so great! Feel free to edit and rewrite and maybe if a bunch of us hit newspapers and church newsletters and talk radio shows with a request like this, pride could still undo the beast.

*I’m borrowing my kid’s screen name to make this post. If I have to, I will try to get a screen name of my own, it will be “Unborn” (unless that is in use). But frankly, I HATE politics and it is a great inconvenience to me to have to try to save the world from fascism when I had such different plans for old age… I’m not a freeper (my kid said I had to say that.) But while I’m on the subject, I’ve never considered myself a democrat. I’ve always been a radical. I think Kerry is a fine public servant. I think bush is a leader. I much prefer a public servant to a leader. Government is supposed to work for us, not lead us. Especially not into shame, economic ruin and endless war.
I am only half sarcastic in the above letter, so please take it seriously. I walked many miles on old and broken bones, knocking on doors during this election. I know that the watershed issue in my precinct was Right to Life. If cures for this situation are to be found, I of course, as a radical, would like to address root causes: initially, the voting fraud; but more importantly, the rising power of religious fundamentalism.
I think getting Xians to insist on a recount would kill two birds with one stone. Might even get a little wedge issue going in a very wedgied group.

Unborn

[For PaisAn]

1. Rather shrewd

I like it!

[LittleClarkie]

2. I can't help but imagine that the Big Guy

is not terribly happy that the words "God" and "fraud" are bundled together in a tidy little package called the Bush administration. I should think there would be divine retribution for that at some point.

Also, my fellow Christian Dems, remember the prayer chain threads that would start up before each debate? I propose we start an anti-fraud prayer chain. Ya with me?

[magnolia]

3. Welcome!

I like what you said...but....

I have found here at DU that when God is mentioned, most everyone (not all) think only of the Christian God. As if Christianity, the church and the bible ARE God. They don't separate God from the bible. So, they argue against God, but they are actually argueing against Christianity. I would argue that too...not so much Christianity, but today's version of it which is nothing like what Jesus intended but is instead based on political agenda.

I'm not a Christian but I pray. According to Einstein and many other wise and intelligent people...thoughts are energy. Human thought (energy) is more powerful than electrical energy, solar, etc. The reason people don't believe it is because you can't see it. But...you don't see the energy that connects you to the person you are talking to on your cellphone either. You trust that energy because of results. If you test your thought energy, you will get results...the more results, the more you trust. Of course we get results to our thought/energy constantly...it's a law of nature. But most of our thinking is negative and the results are negative...and we don't refer to a new big problem as an "answered prayer" but that's exactly what it is.

A prayer is a thought...a positive thought creates positive results. You don't have to tell yourself that everything is rosy in order to be positive, you only have to focus on the positive and accept or change the negative. My favorite saying:

"Every thought you think takes the world closer to heaven or closer to hell."

The thing about God is that it/he is the energy source. Free will means that he gives us energy and we decide what to do with it. He gives us the power to create...he doesn't create for us. In my redneck republican area...after the election there was a lot of gloating in the LTTE...claiming that they won because they prayed more. One of my friends wrote a response that included this: "Sometimes God teaches us by giving us what we want. Before you start celebrating, wait to see if what you got is a blessing or a curse." I do believe that the "prayers" of the rightwing influenced the election. All thought influenced it and they have very focused, single-minded thought which is very powerful. They got results...but it remains to be seen what those results will bring.

So I agree with you...we should all think very happy, calm, positive thoughts focused on recounting Ohio. To those who don't believe...suspend your disbelief for just a little bit and give it a try...just to see what happens.

[benevolent dictator]

4. This wasn't meant to be a religious discussion,

this was meant to be a strategy to get Right Wing Christians to support a recount.