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October 13, 2008
Just Try To Parody This
From an invocation given prior to at a McCain rally in Davenport, Iowa,
“There are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his [McCain’s] opponent wins, for a variety of reasons,” said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church. “And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.”
Now some may think that Dennis Hopper saying, "I pray God, Barack Obama is elected" is itself an unintended parody. And, I'm not sure I would disagree. God must be confused. It just seems abnormal to me to think that any god would be able to influence the outcome of an election. It seems equally abnormal that anyone would call upon a god, even in passing, in an effort to influence the outcome of an election (or anything else). But alas, it is all too normal.
Posted by Duane Smith at October 13, 2008 7:28 PM | Read more on Religion |
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I saw this, too. It looks to me like a public attempt to cover god's reputation just in case "his" candidate doesn't win.
Posted by: Alan Lenzi at October 13, 2008 9:33 PM
It may sound nutzo, but it IS a theme quite rampant throughout the Bible, occassionaly even explicitly so as when Moses asks God to please consider "mah yomru mitzraim?"
mnuez
Posted by: mnuez at October 18, 2008 12:54 AM
Sure, but that was the Iron Age and this is now.
Posted by: Duane at October 18, 2008 9:06 AM
Of course, but when you consider that "The Bible" is still taken quite seriously but a large portion of the American populace what should surprise us is not their occasional fealty to that Iron Age text, its mortals and its religious sense but the fact that almost everything about that text is either unknown or ignored by this population while they simultaneously claim to worship it as divine.
Posted by: mnuez at October 29, 2008 8:50 AM
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