Join me below the fold for some prayers and some action.
Creator God, breathe new life on the earth and all human-kind. Open the eyes of the world's leaders, that they would care for your creation and seek justice for those who sit in darkness. Hear us O God; your mercy is great.
God of peace, bring calm to places of war and fear, especially Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kenya. Shine your light of hope where there is discord, and strengthen those who minister in areas of conflict. Hear us O God; your mercy is great.
Forgiving God, heal those lives broken by illness and grief. Take these loved ones into your merciful hands and grant them your gift of wholeness. Hear us O God; your mercy is great.
God of all, the saints proclaim your goodness and love. We give thanks for the departed, and ask that with them we may be filled with your endless light. Hear us O God; your mercy is great.
Into your merciful hands, O God, we commend all for whom we pray, asking for them light and life and love. Amen.
Here's the action item: forward this to everybody on your e-mail list:
ARE YOU A MORON?
Certain people are banking on it.
You may have received an e-mail this year outlining a number of FALSE claims about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
I am not going to repeat those claims, because that's what the jackasses who create such e-mails want. They want to distract you with irrelevant lies so that you DON'T ask questions like:
- When is the war going to be over?
- Why did we go to war in the first place?
- Was it worth it to go to war?
- When is somebody going to help everybody get health care without going bankrupt in the process?
- When is somebody going to do something about the fact that I'm working harder than ever, yet more financially strapped than I ever was? When are they going to do something about the jobs that have been shipped overseas by the armful? I'd like to retire in peace some day, but I'm not sure my pension will be there.
- When is somebody going to help my kids go to college or live a better life than I did?
- When is somebody going to do something about the government working for the corporations and executives, instead of for people like me?
Some people really don't want you to ask questions like that. It makes them very, very nervous because they don't have good answers for you. So they try to distract you so you don't ask them.
Whose business is it how Barack Obama worships God, anyway? I thought we were supposed to have freedom of religion in America. Well, guess what? That means nobody can tell you or me or Senator Obama what to believe. ESPECIALLY when they're not really interested in religion at all. They just want you to think they are So. You. Don't. Ask. Questions.
They don't care about the Bill of Rights that gives us the freedom to follow God - or not follow God - in any way we see fit.
They don't care about faith, except to tell YOU what THE RIGHT WAY (their way) to believe in God is.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU AT ALL.
As a matter of fact, they think you're stupid. They think that you'll take your eye off the birdie long enough for them to win the election and keep on doing what they want to do. They have spent a lot of time and a lot of money to keep you in the dark, because they don't want to take care of your needs at all.
All they want is for you to sit still and not ask questions.
Is that any way to run a country?
Pastor Daniel Schultz
Campbellsport, Wisconsin
P.S. - it isn't just Obama. A lot of money has gone into convincing people that Hillary Clinton isn't religious. In fact, she's a life-long Methodist.
Why do that?
Because they know that people don't like atheists, and won't vote for them. So they think that you're stupid enough to believe the lie that she is a non-believer, and they think that you're stupid enough to be bigoted against non-believers.
And they don't want you to ask questions.
P.P.S. - If you want to know the truth about Obama's faith and church, see:
- Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/...
- The United Church of Christ:
http://www.ucc.org/...
And to learn more about some of the people behind these lies, see this site:
http://illinoisreason.wordpress.com/...
Or you can look up my site:
http://www.streetprophets.com
And P.P.S.: forward this to everybody you know! It's time we stopped letting people use religion to divide us so they can get rich and start wars.