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“Praying with the Family Research Council makes about as much sense as me going to a Klan rally in search of a boyfriend.”
I received this email from the Family Research Council via its leader Tony Perkins today:
Dear Friend of FRC,
The Lord has impressed on me the need for us, as followers of Jesus Christ, to take responsibility for the broken state of our nation and go to God. But we must go to Him on His terms, in humility, prayer, and repentance as outlined in 2 Chronicles 7:14. Then and only then can we claim the promise of God's forgiveness, healing and the renewal of our lives and our land.
Visit www.Call2Fall.com and click “I'm in” to participate in this nationwide effort.
The day after we celebrate our “Independence,” we need to re-declare our “Dependence” upon God in humble and repentant prayer. At minimum, we hope that you will spend at least a few minutes literally on your knees in prayer during worship services on Sunday, July 5th.
Can you help us spread the word about Call2Fall?
Please take a couple of minutes and send an email to your family and at least five of your friends. Just copy and paste the link below into your email and encouraging them to visit this link:
http://www.call2fall.com/welcome_participant
There they can view a video, visit the website, and join this movement. Ask your church leaders to sign-up your church to become a host for Call2Fall.
Visit www.Call2Fall.com and click on “I'm in” and encourage five friends to do the same.
Can you imagine what God would do if millions of Christians all across our land would actually do this and mean it?
Bear in mind that the Family Resarch Council is the same organization that:
- admits that it relies on “outdated” work to demonize the lgbt community:
The Family Research Council continues to use 'outdated' work
Another flawed piece of work courtesy of the Family Research Council
- and recently took part in a huge attempt to destroy GLSEN's Kevin Jennings via a campaign of innuendoes and outright lies:
More attacks on GLSEN'S Kevin Jennings – Now the Family Research Council gets in the act
And that's just the stuff that I'm not too tired to mention. From its inception, the Family Research Council has set the bar high when it comes to breaking the commandment on bear false witness.
Yet this is the same group that is encouraging us all to pray with it? Praying with the Family Research Council makes about as much sense as me going to a Klan rally in search of a boyfriend.
Don't get me wrong. I believe in the power of prayer because it's how I was able to reconcile myself with my sexual orientation.
But if I am going to pray, it won't be with the Family Research Council.
I'm too pretty to be struck by lightning.
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I don’t believe in the power of prayer…..so it’s a constant source of reassurance to me that Mr Perkins’ flock’s silent appeals to the Almighty are futile. If prayer worked, Muslims would rule the world (not that that would be any worse than any religion in dominance (terrible), just that they pray a hell of a lot more than anyone else).
OkayGo ahead and waste time praying. Not like anything is going to happen.
LOL “let’s move from independence to utter dependence”.
In other words, let’s flush all our freedom down the toilet in order to conform to some idiotic religion.
Never.
Going to the Klan rally might not be such a good ideabut someone at a Klan rally might secretly want to be your boyfriend
I’m always amusedat the magical thinking of many “christians” regarding prayer. ”Regular praying isn’t enough, so if we pray on our knees god must give us what we ask for.” ”Praying by ourselves isn’t enough, so if we get 100,000 people saying the same words at the same time god has no choice but to give us what we ask for.”
Puts me in mind of the ancients who searched for the philosopher’s stone. Just like no combination of chemicals, techniques, and incantations lead to the panacea, no combination of physical or verbal acts will guarantee any god will give them what they want, unless the god to which they are praying isn’t the one written about in the bible.
Couldnt resistNothing I like more than some hypocrite on his knees…
There’s one heartenting thing in thisThe Christian Right is finally admitting its “responsibility for the broken state of our nation.” I guess miracles really do happen.
SuperstitionsBelong to the Middle Ages. Back then, nobody knew what caused hurricanes or earthquakes or blizzards. People thought all diseases came from gods or devils, and supplication was the only way to control their environment. If it didn’t work, they blamed the worshiper, not the worship itself; it’s not that prayer doesn’t work, you just didn’t pray hard enough.
Well, we know where earthquakes and hurricanes and blizzards come from now. We cure diseases with medicines that are 100% more effective than prayer. And if they don’t work, we blame the medicine and make a better medicine than before, rather than insulting the patient.
Get off your knees, and walk like you’re free.
No, they will never take responsibility for anything, They blame the non believers for all the doom and gloom. They believe if everyone believed as they do the world would be perfect.
What is really fucked up is they believe they have to lie to get everyone believing the way they do. Kind of funny if the Truth shall set you free, lying then must condemn you to being a slave to some fictitious BS and there are sheeple falling all over themselves to get right with god by lying.
At first, I read that website ascall to fail, which seems appropriate, especially since after reading it that way once, it’s pretty hard to read it as anything else.
Also, get five friends to do this? The FRC now sends spam forwards, good to know. I’m an atheist so I’m biased, but it seems reasonable that if their ‘god’ hasn’t heeded their requests before now, he’s not suddenly gonna change his mind and rain down fire and destruction on the icky unbelievers.
Answer to your question…Can you imagine what God would do if millions of Christians all across our land would actually do this and mean it?
I’m just guessing here, but I bet he’ll continue to not exist.
let themThey can pray all they like. “Get on your knees and fight like a man” and all that. But their god knows their true desires, regardless of what their mouths are saying.
They can pray to their god. I can pray to my own gods.
Prayer changes the person praying, not the reality.
“When you coerce God, you coerce reality. And when you do that, you coerce yourself and answer your own prayer.”
actually…I practice a form of Buddhism that involves a LOT of “praying” – in my case ~2 hours a day. And I suspect there are sects of other religions that have traditions of prayer among the laity that exceed even that. 5 short few minute prayers per day doesn’t come close to the amount I (and many other) practice every day. Even though what we call prayer is an inward-looking experience not a petition to some external entity.
No big thing, im just sayin’
The Power of Prayer“Can you imagine what God would do if millions of Christians all across our land would actually do this and mean it?”
God would do what he always does. Nothing.
I was commenting on the specific wording of their statement
Wait a minuteYou mean to say that hurricanes aren’t really controlled by Pat Robertson? Shocking! ;)
yes indeedyCan you imagine what the Rude Pundit would do if he sees Perkins’ latest communiqué?
Well, the word prayer literally means:” to ask earnestly, beg,”
So if you’re not making any specific requests, meditation might be a more accurate word.