Do Evangelicals actually believe what they say?

a few weeks ago James Dobson, chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, called for Evangelical Christians to pray to God for rain, to rain out the Democrat's acceptance speech in the outdoor stadium in Colorado.  He was asking GOD to intervene in a nasty, negative, political way.

A few days ago I was writing an email to Cenk and he started talking about just what I was writing him about.  He was joking but I'm not.

For decades the Evangelicals have thought of themselves as "the chosen ones".  They are the ones doing God's work, they are the ones praying to Him, and you and me are the sinners.  Of course, we always knew that was nonsense.  

But here we have it, a few weeks ago James Dobson, chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, called for Evangelical Christians to pray to God for rain, to rain out the Democrat's acceptance speech in the outdoor stadium in Colorado.  He was asking GOD to intervene in a nasty, negative, political way. Maybe that's what Evangelicals think "following Christ" means, but to us truly spiritual people, we recognize that kind of thinking as small-minded, spiteful thinking "in the name of God".  Not what I'd think Jesus was talking about at all.

Well, it turned out that the evening was perfect for the democrats, not too hot, not too cold, not cloudy -- perfect!

Now, God seems to be sending 2 hurricanes for the Republican Convention, distupting their convention.  I think God is clearly giving them exactly what they deserve.  I think He showed them His decision.  Either they believe what they talk about or they don't.

Now, maybe they'll use this opportunity to pause a minute and think about being deceived by these false men whose only fruit has been more poverty, suffering and death to innocents.  They are false men with false lying tongues and the Evangelicals have been deceived. 

That' just the way it is and they should all know about it.

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that is what those people are

the fact that anyone is courting their vote in 2008 is sad, because they are mostly to blame for getting the chimp in office

evangelicals should shut the F up and look at what their believes have led to: hundreds of thousands of dead muslims. Or was that just an added bonus to them?

what am I talking about: that's probably what a bunch of them wanted, to slay the whore of Babylon and everyone in Babylon (for Kenny: Babylon refers to Iraq)

by callisto on 08/31/2008 07:53:18 PM EST

Evangelicals? Pausing and thinking?! You see, there is a genius safety net built into the Evangelical "thought" which is, if something you prayed for doesn't come true, it actually does, just in a different fashion, and at a different time, so if something else goes right they can attribute that to their previous prayers and God. So trial and error doesn't actually work with these people, sorry.

by chrisandyasemin on 08/31/2008 07:55:51 PM EST

that the regular evangelicals, the choir, do believe whatever their masters tell them. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

As to the preachers themselves, I would also say that many of them are genuine loonies à la rev Hagee, but there are also heads of megachurches that are clearly simply exploiting the masses. Who's who depends on your views of reality.

by Lusmu on 09/01/2008 06:23:57 AM EST

... is a threat to a Democratic society, most Democracies acknowledge this, so does the US in it's constitution, once these groups become too powerfull they start undermining the power of the state aka the people (or at least the state should represent the people)

it's not that people can't have a faith or religion in a democracy, it's that the churches need to know their place and a lot of the time they don't, because they want to be a parallel power base and if possible control or even replace the secular power of the state

by callisto on 09/01/2008 08:23:36 AM EST

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