I got this link in my email this morning.

[2bfree]

http://www.udata.com/users/byrd/pray.htm


It is asking for prayers for Bush. Anyone have a good response to the sender? This is an old friend and for some reason I feel that I should say something.

[Rude Horner]

1. Baaaaaaaarf

I now have the dry heaves.

"Few people have thanked him for the good things he's done"?????

And just what would those good things be? I'd like 'em to name ONE!

[hobbit709]

2. Tell your friend

that you are praying that GWB gets his just rewards

[XNASA]

3. Just tell them that you're sure that w* troubles are part of the plan.

The plan called 'Intelligent Design'.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I would pray for him if I could think of a single good thing he's done

for someone other than himself or his cronies. But since, I can't think of anything, I won't be praying for him. Will ask that God provide relief from him though!

[rwenos]

5. Sneaky Blasphemous Inference

Actually, the message and image illustrate a particularly-disgusting Republican Spin Machine technique. The text is about W, but doesn't name him. The photo is W. And just below the image is the epigram "In God We Trust."

What message is being delivered here? That W is God?

I think this is perilously close to deification. For any thinking Christian, it's also abominably blasphemous.

Have they no shame?

[kahleefornia]

6. I would tell your friend

that you consider emails like that to be an invitation to serious political and religious debate. Then ask when would be a good time to have that debate.

It's respectful, and effective. You will have made your point without saying anything, and you won't get any more ridiculous emails.

[Inland]

7. Bush is stiff-necked. He should put aside his pride and selfishness

and listen to God. Blessed are the peacemakers, and the meek shall inherit the earth. I pray every day that God soften Bush's hard heart to hear HIS word.

Bush should take wise counsel and pull our soldiers out of Iraq and send them back to their families. Clearly, God has not blessed our occupation.

Bush should also be a better caretaker of the people and planet God has entrusted to him. God helps those who help themselves. Why can't he make sure levees are built, water is free of pollutants, stop global warming, get medical care for the sick?

I fear that God is smiting the US for the carelessness of Bush, and I pray that Bush hear God's wisdom or get cancer and die.

[kikiek]

8. What happened to the party of responsibilty? Wouldn't that imply

that what is now bemoaning him he has brought on himself? This man has never had to face consequences. His family's power has kept him shielded. Now they want God to help him? Please! At some point in his life he needs to know how the rest of the world lives. We are held accountable.

[LiberalEsto]

9. Pray for impeachment

pray for conviction

pray for imprisonment

[rwenos]

10. The Outcome of a Successful Impeachment

is simply removal from office. The removed president is then subject to prosecution by all appropriate civil authorities.

[ohtransplant]

11. Keep it simple

and stay positive.This person may be well-intentioned if not misguided.

You may have to swallow hard but if your friend is really well intentioned, it will trigger some critical thought.

Think about what you might pray for * if he was a friend.(I know, I know. I said you may have to swallow hard.)

For example, you could offer a prayer that * find real compassion for those who have little, that he give up greed and rewarding the rich with tax cuts while eliminating the middle class, that he becomes a real Christian instead of just mouthing the words, that he finds and requires integrity of those around him.

I could go on but I think you get the idea.

edit:typo

[whatever4]

12. Might not be what you'd say to a friend, but

As for Bush...he's not the worst; he doesn't have the brains to be the most evil force in our government.

But, what Bush is is the ONLY man on the PLANET that could/could have stopped this country from falling from grace, from falling into ruin, and from murdering so many innocent people. He's the only one with the authority. All it takes is WORDS from him, and the situation could be turned around.

Pray for him? The only ethical thing to pray for at this point is his early demise. The man has condoned too many human rights violations and loss of life for me to count the ways. I waste no time at all praying for him. There's hardly anyone on this planet that deserves it less.

I'll pray for the thousands, perhaps millions, hurt by the one man that could have stopped it all...but didn't.

He might just be the "face" of this thing our government has become, but he IS the only man with the authority to stop it. He is the most responsible. He is to be blamed, brainless or not.

I'll waste no time praying for him while he continues to prey on innocent people.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

13. I'm praying for him...

To drag the rest of his party down with him as his poll numbers drop.

:evilgrin:

Ok, on a more serious note: I'm praying that this man doesn't do something more stupid and incompetant than he's already done. Hasn't one man done enough for our country?! :eyes:

[Tace]

14. My Take Probably Isn't DU PC

I pray. All the time. I pray for good things to happen to my "enemies." Not that their bad conduct be rewarded, but that whatever led to it be remedied, or that they see the error of their ways, so that they can behave in a constructive manner.

To do otherwise simply perpetuates a cycle of jive, and would diminish me, IMHO.

In this case, don't we want * to get a clue? Just a thought.

[moc]

15. Tell your friend you pray for justice and leave it at that. nt

[TalkingDog]

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Well, one can only hope.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Here's what I do - I pray for our national leaders since i'm a prayin' guy

I pray for wisdom for them, I pray that they serve with justice, mercy, and compassion; I pray that they inelligent and wise choices; that they make decisions that are for the good of all people in this country AND for the good of the world;

BUT

I also, since the guy in the white house is a criminal AWOL fuckstick, I pray that God will bolster him with the courage and honor to resign; I pray that, if our leaders CANNOT make just, merciful, and compassionate decisions, that God will see fit to remove them from power, whether it be by God open the eyes of the people to demand a change in leadership, or to work through the leaders to lead them to resign, or to work through our criminal justice system to indict, imprison, or otherwise remove them forcefully.

But I certainly never pray that Shrubbie's criminal, and unholy, administration last another day JUST BECAUSE he's our president, UNLESS they actually change course and start doing God's will, which is "to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God".

And this is where the rightwing fucksticks always get it wrong - when it's their guy in office, they pray for him because he's being "harassed" and "need's God's strength to endure", and, most importantly, BECAUSE HE'S THE **PRESIDENT** HE DESERVES OUR PRAYERS. When it's a dem in office, there is no more that "He's the president, he deserves our prayers" crap.

There is consistency.

Mine, however, IS consistent. I DO think all presidents (and all government leaders) deserve prayers - but it's always a prayer that they follow Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves, to protect the week and vulnerable, to be humble, to watch over the widows and the poor and the orphans, to give water to the thirsty and food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, and clothing to the naked; and that if they cannot follow that, taht GOd will see fit to make sure that Jesus' commmand gets followed.

[ck4829]

18. Pray for Bush's Resignation

[China_cat]

19. Two Hands Working

do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

[butterfly77]

20. I pray ...

That all stupid kool-aid drinkers eyes would be opened to this pure evil non-president. I pray that these kool-aid drinkers and their president will feel all of the pain this evil has bestowed on this country and the world.