For the fallen - A silent Prayer

[DearAbby]

* Silent prayer

[senseandsensibility]

1. RIP

For the fallen.

[Skittles]

2. prayer doesn't do shit

how about let's work on getting the rest of them the fuck OUT OF THERE

[better tomorrow]

3. *silent prayer for Skittles, too

[Skittles]

4. DO something for a better tomorrow

don't just f***ing PRAY for it

[LittleClarkie]

12. The two are not mutually exclusive. Move as if you think you could change something

Think of prayer as chicken soup. Can't hurt; might help.

[Skittles]

15. I'd say after five years prayers are not working n/t

[LittleClarkie]

19. Because there haven't been enough actions to go with those prayers

again, they are not mutually exclusive. In fact, to pray without action is to miss the point. We're not looking for magic here. Chances are we're not going to get a fucking miracle.

It's impossible to steer a ship dead in the water. Fucking MOVE.

[Skittles]

20. I am ALWAYS moving

ALWAYS

[LittleClarkie]

21. Why assume others are not

even if they are also praying?

[better tomorrow]

17. Thanks because I DO believe in the power of prayer

* (for a silent intention)

[DearAbby]

5. *

[donheld]

23. um, that silent prayer seemed kind of noisy to me

It's not right to try to force someone else to pray.
You can pray all day, just don't force others to do so.

[Window]

26. No one is trying to force anyone to pray. Why come into an obvious thread about prayer to dis it

because you don't believe in the power of prayer. Jeeze.

[better tomorrow]

31. *silent prayer for peace

[Catherina]

8. To my Ignore list with you. n/t

[Skittles]

9. nice

thank you; mightly Christian of ya

[donheld]

24. Your ignoring Skittles for not following people to pray???!

Great god what kind of religious crap is that?
She feels like prayers aren't working. Many others
feel the same way as she does. You can't force her
to accept your prayers.

[LittleClarkie]

10. It's a memorial. That is all that is meant regardless of your beliefs

And it's not that people aren't also working on getting them the fuck out.

But do you REALLY have a problem with a memorial to the fallen, regardless of faith?

[Skittles]

11. they are dead and gone - nothing helps them

work on preventing more of them

[LittleClarkie]

13. They are not mutually exclusive.

Do you go and bother gravesite services as well? Fuck burying the dead, concentrate on the living?

You act as if one means you are not doing the others. Certainly one could pray if one is of that frame of mind, and still be working to bring the soldiers home.

You assume much.

[Window]

27. Ewww. What a hateful piece of work you are. You need help.

[joshcryer]

14. You need help.

You all do.

[boppers]

6. Here's my prayer.

<The above lines were silent, but removed, because they were political in nature. Our boys and girls deserve a moment free from out petty bickering.>

[Catherina]

7. For the fallen

[CitizenLeft]

16. okay, those photos are heart-breaking.

To the fallen and their families.

[Window]

28. Please dear Lord send our young people home safely, including, but not limited to my

two nephews. Your will be done. Amen.

[ZombieHorde]

18. K&R

[asteroid2003QQ47]

22. Singing Praise since 1916

CHRISTIANS AT WAR
By John < >Kendrick
(IWW Songs, 9th. Edition, 1916)
(Tune: "Onward, Christian Soldiers")


Onward, Christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain:
Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain.
Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill,
God above is calling you to rob and rape and kill,
All your acts are sanctified by the lamb on high;
If you love the Holy Ghost, go murder, pray and die.


Onward, Christian soldiers, rip and tear and smite!
Let the gentle Jesus, bless your dynamite.
Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
Folks who do not speak your tongue, deserve the curse of
God.
Smash the doors of every home, pretty maidens seize;
Use your might and sacred right to treat them as you
please.


Onward, Christian soldiers! Eat and drink your fill;
Rob with bloody fingers, Christ O. K.'s the bill.
Steal the farmer's savings, take their grain and meat;
Even though the children starve, the Saviour's bums must
eat.
Burn the peasant's cottages, orphans leave bereft;
In Jehovah's holy name, wreak ruin right and left.


Onward, Christian soldiers! Drench the land with gore;
Mercy is a weakness all the gods abhor.
Bayonet the babies, jab the mothers, too;
Hoist the cross of Calvary to hallow all you do.
File your bullets' noses flat, poison every well;
God decrees your enemies must all go plumb to hell.


Onward, Christian soldiers! Blighting all you meet,
Trampling human freedom under pious feet.
Praise the Lord whose dollar sign dupes his favored race!
Make the foreign trash respect your bullion brand of
grace.
Trust in mock salvation, serve as pirates' tools;
History will say of you: "That pack of G-- d--- fools."

[Window]

25. K/R.

:kick:

[AirmensMom]

29. And their families.

Thanks. :grouphug:

[Raffi Ella]

30. K&R

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