NO. 10 Ban On Praying

[Pale_Rider]

Shrub wanting to kneel down next to his faithful hound and to pray together for re-election.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13633942&method=full&siteid=50143

TONY Blair has been banned from praying with George Bush.

The US president wanted the PM to join him in prayer at Durham Cathedral on Thursday.

But the official request from the White House was turned down amid fears that such an event would leave Mr Blair open to ridicule.

[Khephra]

1. excuse me while all true people of faith are ill

I'm a gnostic christian...not considered a Christian by many...

This is the most sickening thing I've read in ages.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. Y'know, the gnostic view seems to make more sense...

if we accept that Bush was "chosen by God"...only a blind idiot would put someone like Junior in a position of power, no?

[Gin]

41. His god..."IS NOT" my god......his god is the color green ..MONEY!

a good question is: What color is your god?

[grytpype]

2. How embarrasing!

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[Pale_Rider]

5. You want weird? Check out the pavilion ...

... or Jousting Tent ... being setup for the Shrub visit!


http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2003/11/280736.html

"I wouldn't have it in my front room," said the policeman, understandably wishing to remain anonymous."

Jousting Tent to Greet Bush
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20031117/od_nm/bush_britain_tent_dc

[Paschall]

23. My god, that's hideous!

Didn't they hire a professional Hollywood production team to the tune of $1 million for the CentCom backdrop in Kuwait? What happened here?

I guess those set designing skills have been lost from the Pinewood Studios/Hollywood Golden Era days when Errol Flynn was robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. :shrug:

[foreigncorrespondent]

25. OMG!

ROFLMAO! I just spewed coffee all over my puter. LOL

Seeing the Queen like that sent shivers down my spine. LOL

[alphafemale]

4. Disgusting. Exactly why faith and politics shouldn't mingle.

Is the poodle growing a smidge of spine?

[xxqqqzme]

6. Blair's afraid THIS will open

him 2 ridicule??!!?? Tony, Tony, Tony...hun, I'm sorry 2 break it 2 ya but the ridicule started a long time ago. This would only open a new area 4 the comics & Jon Stewart.

"...Alastair Campbell once told him: "We don't do God" when he(Blair) wanted to finish a TV broadcast with: "God bless you."...

Just once I would love a USpolitician 2 leave this off the end of a speech. I am so sick of this. Wrapped in the flag, talking to god!

[T_i_B]

18. I might also add

That Blair has denied praying with $hrubya before now and it would destroy any sligght hint of credibility that might still be hanging round the poodle-in-cheif.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Alastair Campbell can be a wise man

Alastair Campbell once told him: "We don't do God" when he wanted to finish a TV broadcast with: "God bless you."

Mr. Campbell certainly understands the meaning of separation of church and state O8)

All Georgie wanted was another photo-op/newsie to work on the Rove plan to rein in more Fundie votes. Bush has no shame, has no idea what it means to be humble.

[Paschall]

20. Separation of church and state is not the rule in Britain

Far from it. The Queen is the official head of the Church of England.

I think this is simply indication that Mr. Campbell has a sense of propriety.

[PartyPooper]

8. Why can't Junior pray like a normal person...without pomp or spectacle?

Because he is a lying, hypocritical, 'holier-than-thou', insincere, and flamboyant heathen!

Shame on him!

:evilfrown:

[Beaker]

42. where's the political gain in something like that?

You need to wear your religion on your sleeve, where people can SEE it.

[Zero Gravitas]

46. Right

There's even something about Pharisees in the Christian Bible I think...

[eileen from OH]

9. prayer is private, dammit

and I don't give a fried fart if Bush or Blair are Christian or Druids. It's PRIVATE. It's PERSONAL. You don't need a photo op to converse with God and if you do, you oughtta at least make sure that God gets good lighting.

Geez, I get sick of this crap.

eileen from OH

[kayell]

24. I thought that Jesus's instruction on prayer

was to pray in a closet in secret. But of course, that wouldn't make for very interesting photos.

[Ilsa]

28. * is afraid Unca Dick

might lock him in the closet and take over. Nope. No closet praying for *.

[Ilsa]

27. Great post

"...at least make sure that God gets good lighting." Love it!

[calimary]

33. Bush is just like that guy in the Bible passage -

who, in the parable, was given as the example of what NOT to do. The rich man who swaggered down the center aisle with his big, ostentatious, but quite empty contribution that he wanted everybody in the Temple to be sure to see. Then off to the side, at the end, was the poor widow (I think) with just a penny to contribute and she snuck it in at the end of the line because it was all she could afford and she knew it couldn't possibly compare with what the rich man just paraded down front with. But God liked her contribution a LOT better. I believe some fellow called Jesus told this story. The same guy bush cites as his favorite philosopher. Wonder if he's even read or understood anything that Our Lord Jesus "blessed are the peacemakers" Christ tried to teach.

It's really distressing. And we're being "led" by this cretin. THAT is the face of America to the world. We SHOULD change our national bird from the eagle to the turkey.

[kayell]

40. Supply Side Jesus is *s favorite philosopher

Once again, he was too incoherent to spit out the whole thing.

[aquart]

10. Ashamed to stand in the sight of God w/Bush?

I have a sudden image of the statue coming to life in Don Juan, and carrying Don Juan to hell.

Wouldn't it be funny if the statue of Saddam....... <sigh>

Life is just never that perfect.

[jokerman93]

11. What a shabby manipulator

They are so on to him.

I'm betting the leaders of the whole plamn danet know by now that Captain Penis-gourd of the Holy Warbuck is not only bad for all life, he's bad for business.

What disturbs me is the hyper-inflated ostentation of this trip to England. To many in the world it could be seen as a show of weakness this late in the game.

With all the enemies Bush ahs made, that has me worried.

[roughsatori]

12. That was a sacrilegious idea. The idea of those 2 war-mongers

kneeling together in a church a PR ploy is a disgrace. It would have been blasphemy.

[uhhuh]

13. He Should Be Banned

From praying TO the chimp.

[Kinkistyle]

14. Why don't they piss on the Quran while they are at it?

considering Muslims make up the second largest religious group in the UK. I mean really, how would it look to the rest of the world to see the "Coalition of the Killing" praying together to their christian deities?

[LibLabUK]

26. Hmm

"praying together to their christian deities?"

It's only one deity, and the ironic thing is that it's the same one as the one in the Quran.

I have to say I'm perplexed everytime I hear a US politician invoke God... I was always under the impression He didn't dabble in politics.

[Kolesar]

31. Welcome international participants to the Democratic Underground

japanduh and LibLabUK :hi:

[Kinkistyle]

34. Holy Trinity

Money, Power and Corruption ;)

Actually, The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 3 seperate entities, yet all the same being.

[oneighty]

36. "Hear O Israel"

"The Lord God Is One"

180 (:

[LibLabUK]

37. Hmm

"Actually, The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 3 seperate entities, yet all the same being."

I'm familiar with The Holy Trinity.

But it's still only one God (the God of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran).

[Zero Gravitas]

47. I thought there were three of them?

[wildwww2]

38. Bu$h has already pissed on the Constitution. He pisses on everything.

Dim Son will say he is a "Man of Peace". But a "Man of Piss" is a more honest statement. And to prove it he has everyone in the world with a sliver of brains pissed off at him. Must it be good for me as an American to have my leader dispised as the "Evil Doer" that he is? Oops here comes the American Media(sic) to tell me I am all wrong and that the "Court Appointed Pre-emptive Strike Boy" was chosen by god.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[grytpype]

15. Bush will see this as an insult.

How dare Blair turn down a God-bothering session with Duhbya?

[truthisfreedom]

17. i was taught to pray at the foot of my bed.

at george's age, it seems improper to imagine tony kneeling side-by-side. just there, i mean. at the foot of the bed. just seems... wrong. don't ask me why... ask a repugnant.

[prolesunited]

19. They obviously haven't read the Bible

Matthew 6:1-6

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/B40C006.htm

[emad]

21. Bush & Poodle @ain'tgottaprayer.com?

I think so...

[Dead_Parrot]

22. What the...

"...fears that such an event would leave Mr Blair open to ridicule."
It's a bit late to start worrying about that now, isn't it? :D

[dbt]

29. Wow. Nixon Deja Vu!

It was along toward the last of Tricky Dick's rule that he wanted Kissinger to kneel down with him in the Oval Orfice and pray.

Seems it would be a good thing to pray for that bu$h is at the same point in his residency as Nixon!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Kolesar]

30. So that is what that SNL skit was about!

Dan Ackroyd used to play a great Nixon. He told HK to kneel down with him and pray, then said, "what's the matter? afraid to pray, Jew boy?"

[dbt]

32. Exactamundo, SpikeTrees!

Once again, the truth is funnier (and more desperate) than anything you could possibly make up!

:+
dbt

[smirkymonkey]

45. At least Nixon didn't do it in front of a

news camera!! The man is a moral giant compared to this little turd.

[NNN0LHI]

35. Blair ain't shitting nobody. It was lightning he was worried about n/t

[Philostopher]

44. That was my first thought, too.

"And what's more, Mr. President, I'd advise you to remove any metal objects from your pockets..."

[truthspeaker]

39. I'm pretty sure there is no god

But if there is, I doubt he likes politicians telling him which countries to bless.

[Beaker]

43. especially when they are already among the most "blessed"-

countries on the face of the earth, over which they hold dominion.