Post Obama-McCain Debate: Are the Far Right Christian Fundamentalists Giving up on Earthly Change this Election Cycle?
I get mail. I have my friends who still inhabit that far right terrain that frankly, try as I might, I don't understand. So I get chainmail forwarded to me, lots and lots of echainmail. It's often full of scorn or righteous anger at the heathens... most of the time I never even open it. But the one below had a curious sad tone of pending defeat to it. Am I reading too much into it?
from chainmail :
TOP 10 PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION
- The Bible will still have all the answers.
- Prayer will still work.
- The Holy Spirit will still move.
- God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
- There will still be God-anointed teaching and healing.
- There will still be singing of praise to God.
- God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
- There will still be room at the Cross.
- Jesus will still love you.
- Jesus will still save the lost.
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL?!!!!
There's nothing overtly out of line from a religious perspective with these sentiments, of course, but I am curious and looking for your thoughts: Does this email sound like that of a group of folks that think they are going to win the election?
Comments
avahome
October 8, 2008 - 09:54
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No
Appears to me this is just a reminder of the preacher/priest/etc. being put back behind the pulpit....like maybe the way it used to be. Soothes the soul.
Welshman
October 8, 2008 - 10:00
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Absolutely right
Let's get our clergy busy with harvest festivals, raising funds to repair church steeples and preparing for the Christmas Carol Service and out of business that they don't understand.
As the economies worsen, people will need support. Any preacher that appears on TV or at conferences is not going to be looking after their flock. Shame on them if they let this happen :)
luaptifer
October 8, 2008 - 11:14
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I detect the sense that leaves you wondering
and the wistful tone is music to my ears.
But the fundamentalist base is one thing, the levers which move it are entirely separate.
Maybe a better model for me to offer, chickens come from eggs and I'm not counting votes yet since it's the embedded lobbyists that worry me.
from Martial Law?
"So your party is the only party that can save the country from the mess that your party created?" - attrib. Jon Stewart
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
avahome
October 8, 2008 - 17:07
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Chamber threatens anti-bailout members
Must have been something in the water that day!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14106.html
BTW........after 9/11(New York) and Katrina(Louisiana) didn't Bush get authority to declare Martial Law or was that intervene miliartarily in cases of a national emergency so that the government could supersede states rights?
cho
October 8, 2008 - 18:52
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Yes he did...
don't you go scaring me like this, Avahome!
avahome
October 8, 2008 - 19:37
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That's what I thought....
We have to hold out for a few more months....NO FEAR!