More on the HOLY FREAKING CRAP front
Oct. 11th, 2008 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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From John Deeth's blog about McCain's appearance in Davenport, Iowa:
Not that we didn't already know this, but: if you aren't praying in Jesus's name, the McCain/Palin campaign doesn't want your vote. And this is totally aside from the facts that (a) Buddha isn't a god in the strict sense, and (b) there isn't anyone named Hindu, be it a god, a prophet, a philosopher, a founder, etc. associated with that religion at all. I don't know if the preacher in question really is just that ignorant - it reads as if he assumed that every religion has a singular god - or if he meant to list Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims and got switched up in the middle. [I am assuming that the misspelling of Buddha's title is the blogger's.]
Between that and the whole Palin being blessed by the witch-hunter thing - religiously intolerant much, Republicans? This is starting to make Bob Barr look good by comparison. :-/
[And now, back to grading hell.]
From John Deeth's blog about McCain's appearance in Davenport, Iowa:
The invocation is interesting, as I hear keyboards going all around me:
“There are plenty of people around the world who are praying to their god, be they Hindu, Buddah[sic], or Allah, that (McCain’s) opponent wins. I pray that you step forward and honor your own name.” Ends with “in Jesus’ name.”
Wow. McCain does not appear to have been here yet to catch that, but wow. The preacher’s name appears to be a Pastor Conrad of the Evangelical Free Church.
Not that we didn't already know this, but: if you aren't praying in Jesus's name, the McCain/Palin campaign doesn't want your vote. And this is totally aside from the facts that (a) Buddha isn't a god in the strict sense, and (b) there isn't anyone named Hindu, be it a god, a prophet, a philosopher, a founder, etc. associated with that religion at all. I don't know if the preacher in question really is just that ignorant - it reads as if he assumed that every religion has a singular god - or if he meant to list Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims and got switched up in the middle. [I am assuming that the misspelling of Buddha's title is the blogger's.]
Between that and the whole Palin being blessed by the witch-hunter thing - religiously intolerant much, Republicans? This is starting to make Bob Barr look good by comparison. :-/
[And now, back to grading hell.]
