lets pray for our troops

husker wrote:

dlowan do you know why Jesus wept?

Because his followers missed the entire message???

Anon

I know what the Bible says. I know that it says if you don't accept Christ as your Savior then you are not going to heaven. In a nutshell that is what it says.

Momma wrote:

I know what the Bible says. I know that it says if you don't accept Christ as your Savior then you are not going to heaven. In a nutshell that is what it says.

OK- So I won't go to heaven. Who cares? The entire concept of a heaven has absolutely no meaning for me.

Seriously folks, I think that poor Momma has been taking the brunt of the frustrations of A2K members about many of the things that are going on in Washington. As far as I am concerned, she is entitled to believe what she believes, and is entitled to express these views on A2K.

If anyone disagrees with those views to the point where they believe that the views have absolutely no validity, they have the choice of responding or not responding.

As Momma knows, I don't agree with her, or even respect many of her beliefs, but I respect her RIGHT to hold these beliefs.

As far as praying for the troops, it certainly will do no harm, and if Momma gets some comfort from that, fine. I certainly prefer someone spending their energy praying for troops, than standing with picket signs in front of abortion clinics.

I also think that those folks who are concerned about the country heading towards a more theocratic stance, that the energy spent with arguing with Momma would be better spent writing to congress.

i can NOT believe, i just read this entire thread.....

Anon-Voter wrote:

husker wrote:

dlowan do you know why Jesus wept?

Because his followers missed the entire message???

Anon

not all of them, anon. some simply walk the path, and lead by example.

as i understand the words attributed to the christ, it seems that he would wish for his followers to pray that all soldiers in all armies would lay down their weapons in peace and go home to their families.

Well, the pushing christians are up to their usual tricks. They assume, for the convenience of their self-righteous argument, that those who opposed their nonsense and their impositions are angry. It's useful for them to attempt to characterize critics as indulging an irrational emotion, because of the complete lack of rationality in their imaginary friend superstition.

The charge of bigotry is startling hypocricy. Answers-dot-com defines bigot as: "One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ." I can think of no better definition of the pushing type of modern, evangelical American christian--and Intrepid seems to wish to be one of the club, without actually having to be an American--he loves to rant against America too much for that.

Um, so, like... Are we prayin' for the troops or not?

Did you read the definition of bigot, Intrepid, instead of just responding to Setanta without reading what he writes?

and Intrepid seems to wish to be one of the club, without actually having to be an American--he loves to rant against America too much for that

What do you really believe "praying for our troops" will accomplish? Do you honestly believe that less of our men and women will be killed?

The way to help our troops is to make sure that our government provides the proper eequipment for our soldiers. Did you know that this administration provided sub-standard equpment to our troops, and that was the cause of some 80 percnet of our marines getting killed for nothing?

Wake up and smell the coffee. It has nothing to do with "prayer."