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Siwsan

(26,272 posts)
2. Funny how they call on 'prayer warriors' in a time of crisis but decry 'social JUSTICE warriors'
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 08:29 AM
Jan 2022

The first time someone used that term, as a pejorative, to describe me, I became VERY confused. Well, they actually referred to me as a SJW and being someone who is acronym challenged, I needed someone else to enlighten me. THEN I got confused.

Probatim

(2,530 posts)
3. In the few times I've gone to church, they always talk about prayer warriors.
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 09:22 AM
Jan 2022

Little prayer groups praying hard for others to overcome their illnesses.

I always whisper in my wife's ear - which team has the best batting average? That's who I want praying for me.

Siwsan

(26,272 posts)
4. From what I'm seeing on the Herman Cain Awards page, prayer warriors are pretty ineffective
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 09:25 AM
Jan 2022

Unless, of course, they were praying for the person to die. Then their track record is pretty spiffy.

Probatim

(2,530 posts)
6. Being a prayer warrior is no different than being a rain dancer. Gives a little hope when things
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 09:30 AM
Jan 2022

are out of your control; however, the thought of asking that question in front of the whole congregation has crossed my mind more than a few times.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,137 posts)
9. Having grown up around plenty of Southern Baptists
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 09:52 AM
Jan 2022

This sounds so much like something they would practice. They were the first ones I had ever heard talking about all aspects of their religion in war-like terms.

wnylib

(21,498 posts)
10. I've attended Presbyterian services
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 10:04 AM
Jan 2022

but at a liberal branch, the PCUSA. Never heard it mentioned there, although they do have a prayer group that prays for the sick, for people in need, etc. Have also attended Lutheran and Episcopal churches where the term was never used.

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