Pay to Pray

[Scriptor Ignotus]

I wonder if Bush is including these jobs in his economic figures...

http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/getinvolved/index.htm

Prayer
Lastly—and most importantly—we desire your prayers for our ministry. In fact, we consider prayer so important that we actually have paid staff members whose sole responsibility is to pray. (Doing the research to pray wisely requires a significant amount of time and expense.) God has been exceedingly gracious to us, and it is by His goodness that WallBuilders prospers. Nevertheless we are constantly in need of God’s blessing and help in all of our endeavors, from insight into current political problems to having favor with legislators and other public leaders. Your prayers on our behalf are indeed the foundation of this ministry.


Wallbuilders is an organization dedicated to destroying the seperation of church and state. It is a non-profit, but hopefully not tax-exempt organization.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/index.htm

[Warpy]

1. Well, considering what happens to sick people who know they're

being prayed over, let's hope the demolition project these "builders" are so misnamed over gets the same result.

Stupid asses always think THEIR religion is going to be the state religion.

[jedicord]

6. I've been praying for God to bring the troops home...

for three years. I also prayed for the war not to begin in the first place. Fat good THAT prayer is doing.

But at least my dinner tastes blessed! No need for salt there!

[Goblinmonger]

2. Praying to God to destroy a constitutional right?

Well, now I think I had seen it all. I thought that was the case when I saw Japanese scat porn, but this takes the cake.

If there really were a god, he would strike these dumb fuckers down in a blaze of glory so that none of us could deny his existence.

[niyad]

3. Doing the research to pray wisely requires a significant amount of time an

and expense.

WHAAAAT? this is the first time I have ever heard such BS-- EXPENSE? to pray??

anybody who believes that crap deserves to be fleeced.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

5. the tuition to "Praying Schools" has gone up lately

or something...

[zeemike]

4. It is just a way to funnel money out of an

non profit org to themselves
The prayers probably give a kick back to the leader in cash

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Gee I wonder if I could get a job like that?

I'm assuming it is silent prayer? I mean, I could do that if I didn't have to like get on my knees or anything. Think I could phone it in?

[sweetheart]

8. I pray to pray

at the end of every day,
at the bottom of a bay,
recycled untrammeled astray,
divine thy will is clear today.

Pray to pray to pray,
a golden inside of every stray,
no image reflecting on the day,
thy moment takes my breath away.

Pray take me presently sweet divine,
and dance we will in summer clime,
tantric lovers dance in time,
sacred earth sings vegas,
and the sacred whore flabs her ass,
all so fools can be crass,
infinite vast infinite vast.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Outsourcing Prayers

Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs in the West are saving money and trouble by sending their worship needs abroad.

A few months ago, when British soccer player David Beckham (of "Bend It Like Beckham" fame) was involved in a tabloid scandal that threatened to disrupt his marriage, a concerned London-based fan decided to pay for a Catholic Mass that would help Mr. Beckham ease his way out of the troubled period.
...
Currently, requests for such Masses are being collected by priests in European, Canadian and American churches and then communicated through mail, traveling clergy or, increasingly, by e-mail to the numerous churches in the crowded urban streets and emerald paddy fields of Kerala.

Why Kerala? Nearly 23 percent of the state's 30 million total residents are Christians, most of them Catholics, making it one of the densest concentrations of Catholics in India. And one of the largest church organizations in Kerala, the Syro-Malabar church, is rich in priests. It's contributed over 60 percent of India's missionary priests, in spite of forming only 20 percent of the country's total Catholic population.

This concentration of priests is what drives the requests for Masses from overseas, where the shortage of European and American priests has become acute. In the U.S., the lack of priests means there's often a long wait for a special Mass dedicated to a single intention.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/150/story_15041_1.html

Would any Catholics here be offended if I let my feelings be known?