Are THEY crazy?

[serryjw]

Do you need additional validation? There are moments in one's life when you have to consider surrender. This maybe one of them. The hell with the Constitution, lets pray for lower gas prices??:crazy: :crazy:
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D.C. prayer rally to seek lower gas prices



WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.

Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.

In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are "overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis."

Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder.

"It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God," Royster said.

The Web site is at praylive.com. The toll-free phone number is 888-PRAYLIVE.

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[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. They should pray to their God, *, in the White House, to help them.

As the man in "Bad Santa" said, wish in one hand, crap in the other, see which one fills up first.

[havocmom]

2. Delusional people will do anything to avoid the truth

Some get pretty hostile and even dangerous when faced with evidence that their delusions are just that.

[serryjw]

13. My new favorite article

A lesson in Critical Thinking:

Emotional Blackmail, Cognitive Dissonance
http://www.couplescompany.com/features/politics/CogDiss.htm

[Kenergy]

3. People like that scare me n/t

[bryant69]

4. People who pray?

Bryant
check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Tesha]

16. People who think that prayer is effective on anything other than...

(I'm not Kenergy, the person you're questioning, but...)

People who think that prayer is effective on anything other than
their inner mind-state.

Tesha

[bryant69]

18. Why is that frightening?

IN and of itself.

I certainly understand how it could be scary if combined with a certainty that God wants you to do mean spirited nasty stuff.

Bryant

[Tesha]

20. If they believe *THAT*...

If they believe *THAT*, who knows what other patently-non-true
stuff they might easily believe?

For example, they might believe that George W. Bush actually
*WAS* chosen by Dog to lead this nation!

A non-thinking credulity can be easily manipulated.

Tesha

[bryant69]

22. Ah

Interesting. So people are allowed to believe in God so long as they believe he's largely irrelevent?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Tesha]

28. As I said, unquestioning credulity is a bad thing.

Interpret that as you will.

tesha

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[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Oh, Good Lord!!! n/t

[chaplainM]

6. I hope they do a better job...

...than the ones who prayed for heart bypass patients in that Harvard study.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Don't rush to judgment. Let's just see how much their prayers lower the

prices.

[serryjw]

14. You're right

* talks to god, maybe they are negotiating in time for the midterms. We all know that god wants * in the WH, Guiliani told us.

[Tesha]

15. Predictions: 1. Prices go up afterwards. 2. They deny failure. (NT)

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[stopbush]

8. Amazin', ain't it? God won't intervene on huge disasters that cause

millions of deaths (act of god!), but he WILL help your local football team to victory...or,
in this case, get Exxon to lower gas prices.

Fuckin' a-holes.

[chaplainM]

12. Don't forget

The way the Lord involes Himself in the Grammy awards.

[RaleighNCDUer]

23. God IS partisan -- both teams pray, but only one team loses.

Maybe the winner is the team that prays harder, not the team that plays harder.

[jbnow]

31. I always thought God might have picked

the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants to get into the World Series in 1989. I think how many more people would have been killed when the two tier Bay Bridge and Nimintz freeway collapsed at rush hour if people hadn't largely already been settled somewhere to watch the game. And of course the game started at their rush hour to meet east coast prime time.

Over 60 still died but they expected to recover hundreds in the bridge alone. Way to go God.

In this case...for gas prices...I'm thinking...why not start with peace in Iraq or something as the aim of prayer.

When I talked to my kids about prayer though I did say it's OK to ask for whatever your heart longs for that doesn't hurt someone, who knows if the desire is inspiration and true prayer comes from inside. It doesn't matter how trivial, you can ask for the weather you want if you feel like it, just add "Unless there is some higher reason it be otherwise". I told them we couldn't change God's mind but asking can help us attune and it can't hurt.

I was an agnostic but we went to church at their request. I figured that would be how God would work

Surely more then you wanted to know, my mind and fingers started reminiscing.

[PublicWrath]

9. I am speechless. n/t

[spag68]

10. Pray for gas prices?

As if any "God" would be listening to this group of Panderers. I see a pitch for donations here.

[triguy46]

25. "When you pray...

do so alone as in your closet, not like the pharisees who pray on the street corner. I tell you, they have received their reward." In this case, I guess thats about $100.

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[donsu]

11. LOL - but it is sad at the same time

nt

[ileus]

17. Amazing....Sheese!

Some things are just too crazy for words.

[DemoTex]

19. In his novel "The Gospel Singer" Harry Crews said, "Pray in one hand .."

"Pray in one hand, and shit in th'other. See which one fills up first."

[Orsino]

21. Might work...

...if they sit at home to pray, leaving their SUVs parked.

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[PublicWrath]

24. I just related your OP story to my mother long distance......

She said that it's just about what she would expect from bush's fundamentalists. Thanks for making her laugh so hard!

[serryjw]

27. My pleasure

Think maybe God is busy with Global Warming, * future bombing of Iran and all his creatures that are dying needlessly. Self-determination is a pain in the arse.

[izzybeans]

26. I've been doing the gas-price funky chicken

it's a little dance me and my posse do whenever we want prices to fall.

Whenever it does we know we have sacrificed enough jolly rancher candies to the sugar gods. When it doesn't we just keep on dancin'.

Rain Dancing for energy innovation.

[riona]

29. Praying at gas stations?

:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. What on earth is a 'toll-free prayer line'?

There's a joke in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when the philosopher's union is trying to get the computer Deep Thought shut down, so that it can't find the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything:

"What's the point of us staying up all night arguing whether there's a god, if this computer goes and gives you his phone number in the morning?"

I can't believe someone has actually come up with this. Is there really a sect that thinks you can leave messages for God on voice mail?