Turlock puts 'trust in God'

[Newsjock]

Source: Modesto Bee

TURLOCK — Residents of Oakdale, Lodi and Hughson argued for and against the policy of praying at meetings, but in the end the City Council opted to agree with a self- described "nobody special, just a chubby, gray-haired guy who's lived in Turlock for a little over 20 years".

... The council unanimously passed a resolution that allows for invocations before the opening of meetings despite an appeal from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which sent a letter to the city last month asking the council to halt the practice, calling such prayers "unnecessary, inappropriate and divisive."

... Susan Robinson, who said she is an atheist, warned the council that a policy allowing invocations opens the city up to prayers from "Scientologists, secular humanists, pagans and even Satanists." If that sounds unappealing to the council, she said, "You should understand how nonbelievers find invocations."

In a comment met with gasps from the audience of about 150, Robinson said that she could find passages in the Bible that show God in a poor light: "We have a hard time understanding how anyone can worship such an evil character."

... In a related item, the council delayed action on a proposal by Councilman Kurt Spycher to paint "In God We Trust" on the wall behind the council dais. The city will accept input on other possibilities and consider the item at a future meeting.

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[msongs]

1. endlessly blaming their poor choices n resulting failures on a fairy tale cloud being nt

[snooper2]

2. I thought this kind of shit only happened in Texas...or the South...

Oh wait, this is in good ol' California where the enlightened ones live...


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[martymar64]

18. The San Jouaquin family is really Western Oklahoma

They got that way from all the Okies that settled there because of the Dust Bowl, as fictionalized in Grapes of Wrath.

Of course they brought along with them their intolerant brand of Xian dogma.

[rurallib]

3. I hope they get innundated with Hindi, Muslim, snake worshippers

Spaghetti monster followers, Taoists, Buddhists et alia to give the prayer.
Please smoke and pray outside in private. Do not contaminate other's atmosphere.

[TrogL]

14. You forgot followers of The Great Old Ones

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[martymar64]

19. Praise Yog-Sothoth!

May you be touched by the black tentacle of Nyarlathotep.

[Soylent Brice]

4. K&R

[bora13]

5. truckin

straight to the top of the charts with a bullet in that there turlock...:hippie:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. I'd like to see them write 'In God We Trust' on the wall there,

but only if they write it in the Arabic translation, in Arabic script.

(edited for appropriateness.)

[Auggie]

7. D.U. the poll: Should a city council meeting begin with a prayer?

Poll is at the same link: http://www.modbee.com/featured/story/865051.html

"Yes" is leading with 78 votes to 56 against.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. God won't pay for the coming lawsuit

Their taxpayers will.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. Around a year ago --

I was driving through Turlock on the way to King's Canyon Park and found myself spinning the car's radio dial, trying to find something of interest to listen to.

I hit only five stations.

One had pop/metal music.

One had some sort of eastern sounding music.

The remaining three had fundy "christian" programming, real hell fire and damnation shit.

And this was on a Saturday morning.

There's Turlock for you.

[bertman]

10. This begs the question: If Dick Cheney gives the invocation, is it a satanic ritual or

a christian prayer?

I'm going with satanic ritual.

[ZombieHorde]

15. I would guess Christian prayer, Cheney is a lot like the God in the Holy Bible.

[Zoeisright]

11. Oh, NOES! The BIBLE puts GAWD in a 'poor light'? You, you mean ...

passages like, like ... THIS??

God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21)

He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of “all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses” (Joshua 6). In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married.

When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife! Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody! In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church! In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.

The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9).

Obviously those dingbats, like most fundies, have never READ the Bible.

[martymar64]

20. That Biblical god is an evil motherfucker!

And modern people want to worship THAT?!?!?!
They may as well worship Cthulhu, the morality is roughly the same.

[jmondine]

12. The evil king from Shrek puts trust in God?

[eissa]

13. Ugh, I work here

You'd think having a state university here would contribute some intelligence to this backwater community, but they resist it with every fiber of their being. For the record, Turlock is also known for having the most churches per capita in the US, so there you go.

[rd_kent]

17. Let us know how it turns out

Especially if they allow anything other than christian prayer before the meeting.

[rd_kent]

16. I think they should allow prayer before the meeting.

Start a list of anyone that wants to lead the prayer and have a differnt person lead it at each meeting. When the Wiccans and the Satanists and the Muslims get a turn, I am sure they will NO lONGER be in favor of prayer before the meeting.....or did they mean only CHRISTIAN prayer before the meeting?