Looking for a Sign From God
The political blogger Andrew Sullivan has a weird practice of running emails from readers without naming or crediting the sender in any way, which to me makes him look like a spotlight hog. Here's a great one he received yesterday:
I was backpacking about twenty five years ago through Portland, Oregon and stopped to ask directions from a woman putting up marquee letters on a Baptist church sign (some message about Jesus but it was just started so I don't know what she intended to write).
I was looking for directions to a hostel. She was there with her son (I think he was about seven) and said perhaps she could give me a ride, but she had to pray on it. She paused and quietly prayed and then said, no, she could not give me a ride. She did not know where the hostel was. Still, she was pleasant enough, if a bit weird. I thanked her for considering it.
I enjoyed the encounter for its unique strangeness, but I really did not want a ride, so I was secretly relieved. Did God answer my prayer or hers?
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Spotlight hog, definately. He could also be using the old "I got an email from" bit to avoid accusations of plagerism, while blatantly lifting material from previously published sources.
I never heard a peep from God when I read the Bible. In fact, I'd probably be an atheist if I hadn't downloaded the Foxy Tunes add-on.
Now he communicates to me all the time. If only I knew what he was trying to say.;-)
I think Sullivan hears from god in the back alley of gay bars.
That is one weird story! Seems to me God always answers my prayers, he always says "no" but it's still an answer - just not the one I want!
Well, at least she prayed on it! Sounds like God answered BOTH of their prayers! What a riot!
There are many ways that people use to arrive at the decisions facing them in life. In this case, although religion had only a 'positive' effect, or affected only one person, the effort is taken to pretend that both of them actually prayed, as did the woman, in her personal discipline; decision process. Could the effort be any more anti-religious in mockery?
Christianity may be disliked for whatever arrogance some types of elitists bigots (religious or their counterparts) exhibit, but it isn't a religion of hatred and abusive punishment. In the US, as this thread demonstrates, a concerted effort is made to denigrate and belittle Christianity, and while a partisan portion of the country supports a religion which does promote hatred as a platform of that religion: Islam.
While 'progressive' efforts seem directed at removing religious expressions of Christianity from public view, they support Islamic prayer in schools where Christian prayer is forbidden, and build prayer-washing facilities in public in support of that religion!
What is with that sort of blatant hypocrisy?!? How can 'you' blindly ignore that contradiction being promoted by PROPAGANDISTIC AND PARTISAN efforts of party over nation ... ???
One commentor, above, is surely correct, and since this is outright and arrogant plagerism of "Alice's Restaurant" and the idiocy that that effort at anarchy and 'enemy' making zenophobia is represented to promote 'politics', and also which is becoming OBVIOUS now in its effort at subverting the ideal of patriotism, and to turn it into an effort to discredit a conservative philosophy constitutional rule of law ... and all for votes ... Along with denigrating Christian influence on the morality and discipline which has helped make this country great.
I'm not a Christian, in that I think of myself as Agnostice - I don't know, and won't proselyte any such doubt(s), but I try and think well of religion as a social and personal discipline with benefits society in the main. In that consideration though, the only 'evil' religion in the world today is Islam ... and because hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Islamic 'priests' will NOT condemn the use of human sacrifice to advance the goals of those Islamic idiots who want the genocide of Israel and the West ... and the 'mob' cheers for the destruction of civilization so that their religion can be thr rule of the world.
... and along with the Democrats who support their 'angst' against the West ... for votes ....
... and so despicable ...
Tadowe: they support Islamic prayer in schools where Christian prayer is forbidden,
Citation please? This quote, right here, discredits everything you say; show me a public school that's teaching Islamic prayer as curriculum, and then show a public school that's forbidding students from praying outside of classwork, and you might have something to complain about...until that time, you're spouting discredited and false statements.
Although, it sounds like you'd approve the teaching of Islam to baptists and evangelival children, so long as Christian prayer is included, right? Oh, I doubt that was where you're going. This isn't about you fighting against discrimination, it's that you think we're not discriminating against the correct religion.
Combining, "wah, religious descrimination is horrible, Christians have rights, too!" with your "stop those who believe in Islam, their religion is evil!" really makes it hard to take you seriously. Good 'troll' though, you got me to respond for three paragraphs before I realized you were faking it.
Azrael asks, "Citation please? This quote, right here, discredits everything you say; show me a public school that's teaching Islamic prayer as curriculum, and then show a public school that's forbidding students from praying outside of classwork, and you might have something to complain about...until that time, you're spouting discredited and false statements."
Some public schools, and evidently supported by the school board/community, have suggested prayer facilities be made available because of the putative need of conservative Islamic students to hold their 'mandatory' prayers; away from any peer observation/ridicule. Public facilities have been created to provide 'special' foot washing facilities for Islamic prayer preperation and those same public facilities have provided 'special space' for Islami prayer ... while Christians, Jews, et all go begging ...
You misstate my words to infer that I intended to mean some sort of curriculum or mandatory observation. Instead, I mentioned the fact that almost universally public schools are forbidden to provide such 'space' for Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu or other religious prayer. Indeed, even Boy Scouts are now denied 'space' for political reasons and using the BS's semi-religious platform as an excuse for their progressive, and vile, retaliation politically!
I actually indicated that I thought religion was, in general, a positive social and personal discipline and didn't I didn't discriminate in favor of any religion in that regard, at that time.
Al goes on, "Although, it sounds like you'd approve the teaching of Islam to baptists and evangelival children, so long as Christian prayer is included, right? Oh, I doubt that was where you're going. This isn't about you fighting against discrimination, it's that you think we're not discriminating against the correct religion."
Actually, I am prefer describing Islam as a religion which supports the use of human sacrifice in its effort to destroy Israel and the West. Hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands of mullahs refuse to issue fatwahs against this use of human sacrifice and which is a crime against the very Sharia they shout-out-lout that they support! Millions of Islamics refuse to acknowledge that this hate-filled faction of Islam is, and are, the very criminals that Sharia speaks out against as abominations!
Instead, they whine and moan about absolute trivia in being singled-out at the airports or their dress being mocked. They stage large protests of 'prayer' in airports, and with some idiotic idea that this will highlight the unfairness of being Arab, Islamic appearing and potential human sacrificing demons, but instead they frighten the public against Islam and forcing the very fear they oppose, or pretend to be against . Or, perhaps they misdirect and cover-up the evil of Islam by pointing their boney-fingers at the most liberal and greatest nation on the Earth, and demanding 'special space' for Islam ... ?
By promoting hatred for Israel and the West, conducting human sacrifice, failing to speak-out in their mulititude against the use of bloody altars to Mohammed and Allah and genocide ... Islam is getting a very, very bad name. You won't help making the messenger the victim in support of that ...
"Combining, "wah, religious descrimination is horrible, Christians have rights, too!" with your "stop those who believe in Islam, their religion is evil!" really makes it hard to take you seriously. Good 'troll' though, you got me to respond for three paragraphs before I realized you were faking it."
I'm not the subject, but you try your best to make me the scarecrow to knock-down. However, I'm not some religious zealot ready to cut-out the hearts of a crowd of victims in sacrifice to Allah. So, I see your attempt to make me worse than some of the minions of Mohammed who believe they will gain paradise for shedding more infidel blood for Sharia, as a pathetic effort to support the continued arrogance being advanced by Islam and their use of evil to frighten the world into obedience to laws of hate and stoning.
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