I normally try to steer clear from politics on here for obvious (or maybe not) reasons… but come on, I have to mention this. This isn’t actually about politics at all. This is about people that make me embarrassed to call myself a Christian. This is about people who are the reason so many people run in the opposite direction from God. This is probably what angers me the most out of anything ever: when “Christians” use God to further their agenda and call it “Biblical.”
So what am I talking about? This week Focus on the Family posted a video on their website (and have since pulled it, but if you google, you will find it!) in which they asked Christians to pray for an
“abundant rain, torrential rain … flood-advisory rain.” He adds, “I’m talking about umbrella-ain’t-gonna-help-you rain … swamp-the-intersections rain.”
to occur precisely at a certain time, over a certain stadium, in a certain mile-high city, when a certain presidential nominee would be speaking. They were asking you and me to pray for a rain of “Biblical proportions” that would flood people out of their seats and make it impossible for media to televise… just because they don’t agree with what he (the nominee) has to say or what he believes in.
So where’s the irony? I don’t know if you are aware of the forecast, but the headlines this morning were saying that the GOP Convention might have to be delayed… because of tropical storm Gustav… hmm…
…don’t you think?
wow, i hadn’t heard this, but they ought to be embarassed for themselves! this kind of thing turns my stomach.
that is awful! that is embarressing…i think we have the next jerry f.
a complete embarrassment… how sad. i’m from Canada and the whole idea of one political party being more Christian than the other is still really bizarre to me. in Canada, all of the parties were (evangelically speaking) fairly liberal. you just voted based on other issues. i still struggle with friends here who don’t want to talk about anything but pro-life vs pro-choice.