TPM writes:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) made an interesting appeal to conservative activists last week on a telephone town hall hosted by the conservative Susan B. Anthony List, the Minnesota Independent reports: To help stop the Democrats’ health care bill, through the power of fasting and intercessionary prayer.So basically if health reform fails, God saved us! But if it pases, we didn’t pray or fast hard enough and the forces of evil will have won.Bachmann praised Sarah Palin for raising the alarm about “death panels” that would deny any health care to the elderly and mentally disabled. “Thank God that Sarah Palin said that,” said Bachmann. “These are true.” Bachmann also warned against the government forcing doctors to perform abortions, and urged callers to oppose it with all their energies — and their prayers.
“That’s really where this battle will be won — on our knees in prayer and fasting,” said Bachmann. “Remember: faith without works is dead. So we’re asking you to do all of it: pray, fast, believe, trust the Lord, but also act.
Back when she spoke of Obama and Democrats in Congress having anti-American views, perhaps she really meant they’ve been doing the work of Satan.
Ah, religion: it makes public policy so simple.
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as to this, "Back when she spoke of Obama and Democrats in Congress having anti-American views, perhaps she really meant they've been doing the work of Satan", you're exactly right. They do believe that Obama is on the side of Satan and that they are doing the work of god (you know, because they have a hotline to god and know exactly what god wants)
Since they cannot trust the Lord to do his work in judgment, they must become judges in this place. Hence they do not have any faith nor a working hot line to the Lord, but they do know exactly what they want the Lord to do. No that it is what he wants or his word inspires but what they want. The key here is not what the Lord wants but what they want.
unfortunately a lot of people on the right seem to have forgotten the edict about trying to know the mind of god.
They do not follow the Lord, they are to busy making announcements in his name and passing judgments in his name. They used to be called the antichrist, but in the name of political correctness no one in authority wants to confront them.
If I take one or two tenets of atheism and warp the points and practices of a few demented followers and ridicule them does that your belief in atheism wrong. Every religion has followers who have disordered their beliefs into things that are unbelievable. To use the actions of a few demented and hysterical individuals to try and refute the beliefs a majority is beneath you my friend.
Atheism has tenets? Atheism is something I "believe in"? Wrong on both counts.
My problem with religion is precisely that it's so often used for crazy, hysterical, demented, unconscionable and violent ends, etc.
Little would I care if religion were nothing but a form of entertainment involving superstitious beliefs, rituals, and harmless moral guidelines.
If atheism did not have something that you believed in, then you would not have the passion that you display.
i suppose it depends on what kind of atheist you're talking about. in some cases, atheists define themselves simply by their lack of belief in god. it's not really fair to say that these atheists "believe" in something -- because the simple fact of a lack of belief does not equal a belief. other atheists (such as myself) take it a step further and not only proudly affirm that we don't have a belief in god, we also believe that religion is -- as a whole -- harmful and dangerous. if you're talking about this group — the antitheists — it is fair to say that there is some "belief" there.
I have a reasoned belief in quite a few things (at least, I hope they're well reasoned) but my lack of belief in a god bears on their particulars about as much as my lack of belief in the latest UFO "sighting" or my lack of belief that you were born in Kenya.
Atheism is only useful to distinguish me from people who do have a particular belief in one or more gods.
But I will cheerfully admit that she is a nut job that will do and say anything to get elected including trying to convince the gullible that it must be God's will.