As if it was needed, here’s a little more proof that the overly-religious are more prone to idiocy than other demographics. I don’t think it’s news to anyone that Wall Street is a mess right now; indeed, the nation and world are keeping a close eye on what is going on with the world’s economies. Well, one group of evangelists found a sure-fire solution: Cindy Jacobs says the answer is praying for God to fix it.
Wait, what? Who was it that said ‘God helps those who help themselves?’ I suppose that self-preservation doesn’t apply to the stock market, though, so Cindy Jacobs, after having a vision where God spoke to her (see: LSD) and told her to call his folks together to pray for the economy, did just that. She organized a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies, and the group converged on Wall Street yesterday afternoon.
Now, the silliness of praying to mythological figures to fix the economy aside, here’s the best part. This is where they met:
You got it, folks. These Bible beaters met at a big-ass statue of a bull in the middle of the world’s financial headquarters… to pray for the economy. Now, I’m an atheist, but I’ve perused the Bible a time or two. Does anybody else remember that one minor scene, where Moses is just getting back from dropping a bunch of mushrooms and talking to God for a while? To make a long story short, he found the Israelites worshipping the statue of a golden calf, and got so pissed off he smashed the stone tablets that God apparently wrote the Ten Commandments on. On a sidenote, why can’t God just use papyrus like everyone else?
I mean, were Cindy Jacobs and her entire loyal flock of morons asleep during Sunday school? This is one of the most-referenced passages in the Bible, and these neanderthals don’t even see the symbolism of praying in front of a big golden bull? Well, I’ve decided to do a little praying of my own, just in case God does exist (boy, won’t I feel stupid if he does?).
I’ve decided to pray that Cindy “The Illiterate Bible Scholar” Jacobs and anybody who takes her seriously never reproduce, and I’m doing it in front of this statue:
Why this statue? Because if God can’t take care of idiot Christians, lions damn sure can.
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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
Hallelujah!!!!
Look i know you are an atheist, but surely you can see the difference between someone who is a left winged liberal that cant see straight even if you pointed them in the right direction and gave them corrective eyewear, someone who really believes and knows what they are talking about. Look I’m not going to say that praying wont work, but I believe that America is quite possibly under the judgement of God, and the only thing that will change that is if all of God’s people get on their knees and call on His name, and start living like they are Christians (just a fyi Christian actually means little Christ and we were first called that in a place called Antioch because they acted like Christ.) It is really a shame what they call Christian now. Oh and by the way the reason God wrote the ten commandments on stone tablets to represent how they are unchanging and how He demands perfection in our lives that means zero sin. That is why He set up how He was to be worshiped and then to cap it all off the only way for the Old Testament worship to be complete it had to have One Perfect sacrifice and that was Jesus Christ. I agree they could have picked a better place to pray but it isn’t a bad idea to pray. Oh and by the way God is also called the Lion of Judah.
Coley: You must be kidding. A rational, thinking human being must know that the idea that prayer can do anything is a hoax. Furthermore, by your own admission, “I’m not going to say that praying wont work.” Yet, you still insist that “I believe that America is quite possibly under the judgement of God, and the only thing that will change that is if all of God’s people get on their knees and call on His name, and start living like they are Christians.” Sorry, you lose. By the way, I am pretty sure you did not notice that you have no cotrast in the first part of your post. You claim that even an atheist should be able to “see the difference,” but you do not show what it is we should compare. Last, how much sense does it make that anybody, God or otherwise, put the ten commandments on a stone? Where is the stone now. Besides, if you truly read the Old Testament, you will find that there are more than ten commandments.
I thought you said that you read the bible through. You must have skipped II Chronicle 7:14. God says in that passage that He will change His mind about judgement. Here i will put II Chronicles 7:13-15 in here for you.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Here in verse thirteen God is talking about judgement and judging his people.
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
This is what it will take to turn God’s judgement away.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
This is God saying basically I am waiting to here from you.
But you are an atheist so you don’t believe in any god in the first place let alone the True God. Therefore you must believe in evolution. Which by the way takes more faith to believe than the faith to believe that God is real. because you have to make yourself believe that living can come from nonliving and complex can come from simple and I don’t think you can prove that in a lab. Oh and if man really descended from the ape why are there still apes?
@Corey: Oops! Nevermind. It is pointless.
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Coley Minnix,
If you have neither empirical evidence of your position, nor can state what empirical evidence would change your mind, you are what us non-believers like to call ‘divorced from reality.’
Let’s have you reconcile “the reason God wrote the ten commandments on stone tablets to represent how they are unchanging and how He demands perfection in our lives that means zero sin” with the implicit condoning of slavery, rape, molestation and assault in said commandments – see http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/10/10commandments/