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Is there some kind of virus in the air that causes religious sanctimonious batsh*ttery? I know that many people feel strongly about the power of prayer, but when it comes out of the mouth of a calculating pol like Charlie Crist it’s absurd.
Crist said he isn’t trying to take credit, but he told a group of real estate agents Friday that he’s had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit Florida.Crist noted that just before his election in 2006, Florida had been affected by a total of eight hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.
“Do you know the last time it was we had a hurricane in Florida? It’s been awhile. In 2007, I took my first trade mission. Do you know where I went?” said Crist, a Methodist, referring to a trip to Israel.
He then told of going to the Western Wall and inserting a note with a prayer. He said it read, “Dear God, please protect our Florida from storms and other difficulties. Charlie.”
Hmm. Perhaps he should have slipped in a note to guide Charlie to fix his state’s economy.
Hat tip, Right Wing Watch.
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That’s So Weird!Wow! I know that can happen, I know that this sort of power of prayer is real because when I was four years old I prayed to the Norse god Odin to not let a giant asteroid hit our earth! Now, more than 50 years later, we’re still here! You see, these batsh*t prayers really do work!
I know some other people who have prayed to other gods and powers to keep the world free from vampires, air-sucking lizards, etc. You don’t see any of that either, do you? Case closed.
I’m so conflicted!Between the tornado watches here last night, and now this morning’s news that Hurricane Bill is going to miss Massachusetts (home of equal marriage for 5+ years!), Cape Cod/Provincetown and even Maine- I just don’t know!
Is The Almighty (TM) giving us fighting against the “People’s Veto/ referendum question” His Divine “thumbs’ up”?
I’m gonna go with this option…
So What?I started collecting music by The Jacksons shortly before Michael passed away. Upon his death, none of their music was anywhere to be found – a Jacksons famine.
Well, I prayed about it, and the next week, the record store had at least 10 copies of EVERY album by The Jacksons – 2 of them, remastered!
It’s a miracle! Now send me all your money!
As JoeMyGod pointed out…
the Goddess also apparently answered Crist’s note to Her for a beard. AND gave him a twofer. For as someone at the Huffington Post pointed out, Mrs. Crist owns a huge Halloween costume company so Florida’s First Couple can supply beards to an endless number of lowlife Repugs on the downlow…literally.
At the same time, we thank the governor for this, uh, revelation. Because it proves that the real reason to want to see him driven into the political Everglades is not because he’s a lying, closet coward who has fought against marriage equality and gay adoption; not even because thanks to his signature every day in Florida is Bring a Gun to Work Day…but because Charlene’s nuttier than a fruitcake!
Must be the water they drink in FLSecretary of State Katherine Harris thought she was a modern day biblical Esther for “speaking the truth”.
His other note:
Geez, if he coulda slipped in his love for Cuban food….he’d of had a trifecta. What a tool. Also (and I say this having dear, dear friends in Florida), it’s best to wait until the end of hurricane season to proclaim that your relationship with buddy Christ has spared your state from His wrath. Speaking of which, did Crist ask Christ to pummel Massachusetts or Nova Scotia? That would be classy.
Oh if only Jon Hall were here to meet Charlie
HmmmmmmPer Wikipedia, below is a list of hurricanes striking or affecting Florida since 1950, with the name, date, and maximum sustained wind at time of landfaull.
So in the last 59 years, 13 hurricanes have affected Florida. That means the probability of a blow hitting the state in any given year is 22%, give or take.
Praying for the probable seems like a good strategy. Now, let’s see, I can pray for rain at my house this afternoon. Given this is August and this is Florida, there’s a pretty good chance my prayer will be answered!
Spores
Spores that are hidden in the paper pages of the holy babble. Too bad it’s not the flesh-eating, futuristic space kinds of spores though.
I guess I’ve been doing it all wrongI thought I would need to work hard and do without and save every penny for years toward my Genital Reconstruction Surgery.
According to Mr. Crist, all I really need to do is take a thousand or so I’ve already saved, buy an airline ticket to Jerusalem, do the paper in the wall thing, come back, go to sleep and the vagina pixie will sprinkle some special magical dust straight from Trinidad, Colorado down below. And boom! An innie instead of an outie!
Who would have thunk.
Dena
I thought he prayed for the beard of his dreamsWhat will Charlie-down-on-his-knees-Christ do if a hurricaine hits FL?
Blame God? He doesn’t really have the higher ground to blame fags.
You forgot Hurricane KatrinaI know you have Category 3′s and up but…
Hurricane Katrina did hit Florida as a Category 1. I have a friend in Florida whose roof was punctured by Hurricane Katrina. 7 people died in Florida prior to Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast as a Category 4.
He’s just saving a good earthquake for you.
Once again…
Once again, David, your love of and gift for Camp makes my day!
Now if someone will jsut please post a thread in which we can work in Yma Sumac singing to the Sun God or Marlene emerging from the gorilla costume!
If only Crist had someone as smart as John Ford directing him.Instead, he’s obviously turned to Pat Robertson.
Any self-respecting sporewould turn up its nose at these crackpots.
I’m curious……how many religious, especially Christian, people who post here think this is ridiculous, yet pray for other things themselves.
He’s so sillyQuentin Crist is a gem.
And they forgot…
Hurricane Anita which showed that the Goddess can invoke a sense of irony along with destruction.
The year was 1977 and about the time that the Antigay Industry began to repeatedly blame bad weather of all kinds on God’s wrath on gays….or nongays tolerating us…just as, a couple of weeks ago some religious scumbag er minister blamed gays for too much rain and a potato blight in Maine because the state had approved marriage equality. And just this past Thursday, a Baptist cockroach er minister claimed tornado damage to a Lutheran church in Minneapolis was a divine warning for the Lutherans not to vote to allow church blessings of gay couples. [They did anyway so we assume that all goddess-fearing and homohating Lutherans will skip church tomorrow.]
Orange juice beauty queen Anita Bryant, who blamed EVERYTHING bad on The Homosexuals, was the star of religious fascist-based bigotry that year in her successful crusade to overturn Miami’s gay rights ordinance, which led to rights repeals in two others cities, the failed attempt to ban teachers in California [that despite what Milk claims she did not lead], the ban on gay adoption in Florida, and first launched major fundraising campaigns exploiting homohatred that continue today, when, by a fluke, the first hurricane off Florida three months later was named Hurricane Anita. And a gay guy in DC recorded one of many songs about her Miami sister:
The next year, late beloved humorist Art Buchwald wrote in one of his syndicated columns that his friend Merkin claimed that God had spoken to him and told him that all bad weather was because of Anita Bryant and others invoking His name against gays. When Buchwald expressed doubt, Merkin told him to ask God himself.
You’re right!I flew out of Ft. Lauderdale going to Chicago the day before it hit there. I returned a few days later. There was no serious damage that I could see.
I guess they don’t all wreak mass havoc.
I also forgot Fay last year. It was just shy of a hurricane (70 mph sustained winds – here about 55 mph).
It caused a lot of flooding too.
Maybe I shouldn’t rely too heavily on Wikipedia.
So if a hurricane hits Florida this fall…Does that mean that Charlie will resign from office and come out?
sidebarGov. Crist is coincidentally cancelling a summit on global warming.
http://www.miamiherald.com/new…
Hmm, I wouldn’t write off divine displeasure just yet, Charlie!Perhaps the Deity is displeased about Charlie’s unwillingness to come out and to keep using his wife as a beard.
Crist and HageeTo a free-thinker or an atheist, Crist is no better than John Hagee, who said his God destroyed New Orleans because it held a gay pride event. Which makes me wonder: did “God” spare Florida because Crist prayed or because there were no gay pride events there in the year Crist prayed? In any case, both of these loonies are bringing knowing smiles to the lips of those familiar with logical fallacies.
In Hagee’s case, he’s playing on the fears and intellectual vacuity of those who fall for post hoc reasoning: that is, Katrina hit New Orleans because of geophysical conditions, the simple (Ochamic) explanation needing no divine inspiration. After this, because of this. In Crist’s case, he plays the same silly game, trying to make us believe that his special relationship with “God” spared Florida (which, the last I looked, is one of the gayest states in the union — I mean, duh!, KEY WEST!).
Hirsute HeroicsLOL LOL! Great one, coram! Kind of reminded me of the pagan sect that worshiped Venus Barbata.