Dobson Embarrassed After Telling Us to Pray For Rain?
August 17, 2008Stuart Shepard, who does videos for James Dobson’s Focus on Family put out a “pray-for-rain” video where he thought it would be a good idea to ask for torrential downpours during the Democratic convention.
Now, Focus has pulled the video from its website and says it was all a big joke. The Carpetbagger has the Mea Culpa video, which is actaully snarkier than the original.
Wow!
You’d these so called Christians would pray for rain in drought ravaged areas where people arte REALLY suffering!
What is going to RAIN on the dem covention is MORE SIN!
Bastard making, who’s going to get some off of who.
A who’s who of fornacatin!
Repent all ye democrats!For GOD don’t like bastard makin!
Let them pray for rain here, we haven’t had any rain in a long time. And if they get their prayers answered, I hope it feeds the Colorado River. Lake Mead is running dry.
Repent, oh ye jerryrollin. For God doesn’t like assholes.
It gets difficult to take human beings and the long-term survival of the species seriously when bumbleheads get in front of video cameras and suggest that an omniscient, all-powerful God, who is beyond human understanding, might become a co-conspirator in frat house pranks.
If I were Shepard’s spiritual adviser, I’d suggest he get down on his knees and ask forgiveness for belittling the Almighty.
RC,
Bravo!
If God had failed to bring down the requested cloudburst on BO, this would have been a tacit heavenly endorsement of Obama.
The Dobson crowd only got wise to the window they’d opened up for the Lord to make his opinion known. By withdrawing their request for rain, they only closed the window and left in place the make-believe nonsense that God is a Republican. The last thing they want is for it to become obvious God’s both liberal and a Democrat.
“Let them pray for rain here, we haven’t had any rain in a long time. And if they get their prayers answered, I hope it feeds the Colorado River. Lake Mead is running dry”
Why dont YOU pray for rain? get your family, friends and have an event where you look at the situation in your area, discuss it, and pray for rain. simple.
Anon, you wrote: ” The last thing they want is for it to become obvious God’s both liberal and a Democrat.
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Then answer why liberals and democrats oppose the bible being made available in public? why do you so harshly oppose the bible in public schools? why do you oppose the 10 commandments from being displayed in public or in courtrooms? why do you oppose Christmas nativity scenes and run propaganda films at the time of Easter to say its all a lie?
I mean, its not like liberals or democrats are known for CARING about God or CARING what God says, the left is the side of atheism and hatred for what God stands for.
while there are hypocrites on the conservative right and some religious fanatics peddling Christianity, at least the right is known for being pro bible, pro God, pro life, etc
the left? its a requirement of your being a democrat that you must endorse abortion, which is the Satanic murder of newly born or unborn children. As a democrat you must take part or partake in the denial that abortion is the Satanic murder of newly born or unborn children.
OH, its a womans right to choose (murder), or one of the newer lies that its for the health of the mother, or as a democrat and mouthpiece of Satan, youre required to say if the womans life was at stake, or in the case of rape or incest it would be okay to proceed with the abortion. Thats a tested one most people just wont argue with.
ok, but if you decide to hold a full on ritual child sacrafice with torches and an altar and drum beats and chanting and candles? then its NOT ok. If you drop the drums and chanting and just carry out the Satanic child murder/sacrafice in a kind of doctors office like setting? then thats more acceptable. And so it goes…
so the claim that God would side with liberals/democrats? ya take it out and run it around the block a couple times, and then you see that it sounds really kooky
You know how jesus said, when i was poor and hungry, you fed me, when i was naked, you clothed me, &etc? Sounds like he might support a welfare state…
there’s a lot more to Christianity than just being opposed to things.
“Then answer why liberals and democrats oppose the bible being made available in public?”
It is only YOUR opinion, that there is a connection between God and the Bible.
For many there is no connection
I would respect your believe, but you don’t seem to extent the same respect.
Why aren’t you as upset by the deaths of people who are already born, in war as abortion?
Am I REALLY to believe that if men got pregnant, that abortion wouldn’t be available in the drive thru?
Here’s something from the religious:
“An unborn fetus in Jewish law is not considered a person (Heb. nefesh, lit. “soul”) until it has been born. The fetus is regarded as a part of the mother’s body and not a separate being until it begins to egress from the womb during parturition (childbirth). In fact, until forty days after conception, the fertilized egg is considered as “mere fluid.” These facts form the basis for the Jewish legal view on abortion. Biblical, talmudic, and rabbinic support for these statements will now be presented.”
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ideas_belief/bioethics/Overview_Abortion
If only the conservatives cared as much about the child as they care about the fetus.
I pray a bastard of Obama shows up about 7 days b4 the election! LOL!
The jews are wrong olelefty,but now I see where Colmes gets from.
abortion kills a human being.PERIOD!Doesn’t mean its wrong in all cases.
It gives bastard breedin dems a way OUT! Thats why they worship it so.
You don’t know any more who is right or wrong than anybody else.
I’ll pray for sunshine and warm temperatures during the Democratic convention.
Okay, maybe we’ll leave room on one day of the convention for a little rain shower but only so the rain can be followed with a nice rainbow.
When the nice temps and rainbow appear, we’ll finally know that the Lord is a liberal Democrat and all those nasty Republicans will finally have to realize they’ve been directing their loyalty at Satan all these years.
Satan is a Republican!!! God is a Democrat!!!
“If only the conservatives cared as much about the child as they care about the fetus.”
Excellent point OL. It’s worth repeating.
WRONG lefty! THAT is where liberalizm is flawed!
WRONG lefty! THAT is where liberalizm is flawed!
by jerrysrollin.blogspot.com August 17, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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In YOUR mind!!
Jerrysrollin,
If only the Libs cared for the children as much as they cared for Criminals.
They fight for abortion and against the death penalty. That right there should tell you these people are backwards. Lets fight for criminals/murderers right to live and kill babies. thaqts the mentality we are dealing with on the left. Its almost not worth arguing. Almost, I like making them look like dumb asses though.
All this makes little itty bitty baby Jesus cry…
How can we blame this on Islam? …
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I prayed for a Royals win today over the Yankees in their last game at old Yankee Stadium.
But who knew that Jason Giambi is a tool of Satan?
If only the CONS cared for the children as much as they cared for WAR CRIMINALS.
They fight for WAR PROFITEERING and against the GENEVA CONVENTIONS. That right there should tell you these people are backwards. Lets fight for DICTATORS and SAUDI PRINCES right to RULE and kill their people, as long as PRIVATE CONTRACTORS ARE MAKING MONEY.. thaqts the mentality we are dealing with on the RIGHT. Its almost not worth arguing. Almost, I like making them look like dumb asses though.
Phelps won because of Jesus…
When the Yankees win, it’s only proof that Satan can sometimes get the better of God.
The New York Yankees: Satan’s team.
And on a Sunday, no less.
Old Lefty pointed out:
““An unborn fetus in Jewish law is not considered a person (Heb. nefesh, lit. “soul”) until it has been born….”
That’s because they believe the bible; which states in Genesis that only after a person draws breath is it a living soul.
Not that conservative believe the bible.
They only accept those passages that happen to agree with them.
How about: if only the rightists cared half as much about building up America as this obsessive yearning they have to dominate and/or destroy the whole rest of the world.
Bradley. God doesn’t care about Liberal or Conservative politics.
Jesus, on the other hand, used to hang around with lepers and prostitutes, provide free health care, repeatedly admonish the greedy rich and rebuke his own followers, revile those who “prayed loudly on street corners” and advise separation of church and state: “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s…Render unto God what is God’s.”
He fed the hungry, without question. He kicked the moneylenders and merchants OUT of the synagogues (not IN, mind you) and advocated PEACE (bless be the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God… First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift).
In terms of capital punishment, he seemed to be against it, since he urged people to “turn the other cheek.” Maybe that’s because he knew he was going to–guess what?– be put to death by capital punishment.
You really need to take a page from Barry Goldwater’s playbook, both for Caesar’s sake and God’s.
Goldwater said in 1981: “By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars . . . Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northem Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”
In terms of capital punishment, he seemed to be against it, since he urged people to “turn the other cheek.”
Sarah, in the bible Jesus is fully God who took off his crown to become fully Man, when Jesus was debating the Jewish leaders as recorded in John ch. 8 Jesus said he is in fact God, the same God who told Moses what to tell Pharoh; the same God who told Moses to put anyone who teaches other than Gods law, to death and even if your own family member taught against Gods law if you didnt turn them in then both you and they were to be put to death, if a city taught against Gods law then the entire city including even the cattle were to be put to death.
As many liberals do, you misquoted and misapplied “turn the other cheek” either out of sheer ignorance or on purpose
Some believe that Jesus was teaching resistance to occupation:
The specification of the right cheek and the awareness that people in that world used their right hand to strike somebody provide the key for understanding the saying. How can a person be hit on the right cheek by a right-handed person? Only by a backhanded slap n that world, a slap with the back of the hand was the way a superior struck a subordinate. The saying thus presupposes a situation of domination: a peasant being backhanded by a steward or official, a prisoner being backhanded by a jailer, and so forth. When that happens, turn the other cheek. What would be the effect of that? The beating could continue only if the superior used an overhand blow – which is the way an equal would strike another equal. Of course, he might do so. But he would be momentarily discombobulated, and the subordinate would be asserting his equality even if the beating did continue.
Also:
Matthew 5:41 has Jesus say, “and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.” Borg says that this statement “refers to a known practice of imperial soldiers.”
Soldiers were allowed to compel peasants to carry their considerable gear for one mile, but no more. The reason for this restriction was that soldiers had been abusing the option by forcing peasants to carry their gear all day (or even longer). The result was not only popular resentment, but peasants ending up a days journey (or even more) from home. And so the restriction was introduced, and soldiers faced penalties for violating it, some of them severe. In this setting, what are you to do when an imperial soldier requires you to carry his gear for a mile? Do it – and then keep going. This situation, [Walter] Wink [a scholar, and author of Engaging the Powers, The Powers That Be, and Jesus and Non-Violence] suggests, is almost comical – imagine an imperial soldier wrestling a peasant to get his gear back while the peasant says, “No, no, it’s fine. Let me carry it another mile.”
and Jesus and Non-Violence] suggests, is almost comical – imagine an imperial soldier wrestling a peasant to get his gear back while the peasant says, “No, no, it’s fine. Let me carry it another mile.”
This carrying it another mile sounds like what a Christian would do. You think this sounds comical?
The “god” character from the old testament was a particularly vengeful and nasty entity…wiping out whole cities with a wave of his hand.
Today, from what I see, he spends more time helping atheletes win, movies stars get Oscars and making money for televangelists…
This carrying it another mile sounds like what a Christian would do. You think this sounds comical?
by Bradley August 19, 2008 at 1:44 am
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Who said anything about comical?
Ghandi used the same methods to free an entire sub-continent from Imperial occupation.
” There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him–early.”
Mark Twain,
Notebook, 1898
The “god” character from the old testament was a particularly vengeful and nasty entity…wiping out whole cities with a wave of his hand.
Today, from what I see, he spends more time helping atheletes win, movies stars get Oscars and making money for televangelists…
by badmrfrosty August 19, 2008 at 7:12 am
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Very astute observation!
Also, isn’t it interesting that once one “finds God”, it ALWAYS turns out that they and God hate ALL the same people!