Loading ...Fearful Christian Right Praying for a McCain ‘Miracle’
flockwoodI just got this e-mail from Charisma Magazine founder Steve Strang. As Election Day nears, he’s not praying ‘Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.’ He’s asked God “for a miracle to see John McCain get elected.”
“The Consequences of This Election Are High, So Pray
by Steve Strang
My inbox is full of e-mails from many Christian leaders calling for prayer and fasting and warning that if Sen. Barack Obama is elected, there are serious consequences for everything from right to life, to national security, to turning America toward European-style socialism.
This week’s report is a compilation of what I think are the most serious warnings. It is also a call to pray and to believe for a miracle to see John McCain get elected. …”
October 31st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I heard a rumor that Obama is actually a Christian.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Most “European style socialists” are Christians, too, but don’t tell anyone.
October 31st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Yeah and the millenium was the end of time.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:41 am
The sort of “prayer” that Strang is calling for amounts to “religious” prostitution–pimping God to support Strang’s political values.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
On this historic election day, I offer the following quote from the Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Com., 305 Ky. 632, 204 S.W.2d 973 (1947):
“Voting is the privilege of a free people. One of its primary purposes is to keep people free. There is no such thing as a popular election in some countries of the old world. Dictatorships will have none of them. This glorious country belongs to the farmers, to the working people, to the little people whose name is legion, to the middlesized people who are the salt of the earth, to those of the big people who would yet remain little people because their God-fearing hearts make them humble. No group of people in America has a greater stake in its government, in its rocks and rills, in its woods and templed hills, than ordinary working men. No group in America can be more interested in voting for a clean, righteous, free, statesmanlike government than that group known as workers. The woman with the sun bonnet and the checkered apron who trudges off of the mountain side in Leslie County and walks down the creek a mile to cast her vote-she is an American queen in calico, but her only pay for voting is the satisfaction of knowing that Columbia, by God’s help and hers, shall continue as the gem of the mighty ocean. Let no man cease to thank his God as he looks in at the open door of his voting place, as he realizes that here his quantity, though cast in overalls, is exactly the same as the quantity of the President of the United States. There is a satisfaction and privilege in voting in a free country that cannot be measured in dollars and cents.”