Critics Blast Bush For Not Praying Hard Enough

[Bill McBlueState]

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WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush, already facing the lowest approval ratings in history, is coming under fire from former supporters over what they call his "ineffectual and incompetent" use of prayer for national guidance and assistance.

"Every time the president is criticized, he insists that the nation is in his prayers," said the Family Research Council's Bob Jensen. "That may be, but it's becoming more and more clear that these prayers are either too infrequent, too brief, or not strongly worded enough to be effective."

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"Half the time, I can't even get him on the phone because he's busy praying for the American people, the same people who are now so quick to criticize him," Cheney said. "If something's wrong with those prayers, I would suggest that it's perhaps the fault of a supernatural entity. But it's not the president's. He is doing his duty."

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"There is a real possibility that the president misrepresented the number of times he invokes Jesus' power each day in accordance with the strict guidelines of scripture," said Henry Holbrook, senior fellow at the Intercession Institute, a leading conservative prayer tank. "Is he clasping his hands together tightly enough? Is he using the proper forms of the pronouns 'thine' and 'thou'? What about the verb 'hast'?"

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[KurtNYC]

1. I see this is the Onion but a recent study showed that people

who were prayed for fared MORE poorly than those who were not!

In another of the study's findings, a significantly higher number of the patients who knew that they were being prayed for — 59 percent — suffered complications, compared with 51 percent of those who were uncertain. The authors left open the possibility that this was a chance finding. But they said that being aware of the strangers' prayers also may have caused some of the patients a kind of performance anxiety.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1144249887-2/sks9zBAd543395fh6FFA&pagewanted=print

[Bill McBlueState]

3. there was a thread about that yesterday

focusing on some of the ridiculous spin from certain quarters: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x837155

[hlthe2b]

2. Snarf...

I can bet he's praying a lot lately--but only for his own butt.

[BlooInBloo]

4. ROFL!! I was right! I was right!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x59497#59514

[Canuckistanian]

5. Prayer production must increase by 70%

To keep up with the reduction in efficiency of prayers. The per capita prayer to GDP ratio is approaching is lowest levels in years.

Perhaps some prayer outsourcing is needed to keep up those margins.

[Flubadubya]

6. Old Jensen must not have heard about the most recent research...

about the effectiveness (or lack therof) of prayer. Hmmm... maybe he's just confirming the findings himself! Bwahaha!! :rofl:

[wordpix]

7. * isn't called incompetent moron chimp for nothing