swamppolitics.com - 8/14/2008
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by Katie Fretland
Praying for rain at the expense of a certain presumptive nominee isn't acceptable at Focus on the Family.
The conservative Christian group pulled the video (above) from its website, because the narrator jokingly asked the public to pray for torrential rain when Sen. Barack Obama takes the stage at INVESCO field to accept the Democratic nomination for president.
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The word you're looking for is "blasphemy"
The Reality-Based Community —
... Nothing like nice "humorous" prayer for God to curse a political opponent. That couldn't offend anyone. The director of digital media for the political action arm of Focus on the Family needs some basic lessons in reverence. Maybe he and P.Z. Myers can team up; Myers also thinks religion is a joke. Of course, it wasn't really a joke, except that to this fanatic pseudo-Christian the suffering of people he disagrees with is funny. As C.S. Lewis says, (I'm switching the names from the Narnia world for the ones Christians use), "If any man do a cruelty in [God's] name, then, ...
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