Fundie Freak Preacher says good Christian folk must stop Buddha and Allah from getting Obama elected

[marmar]

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from ThinkProgress:



Minister delivers divisive invocation at McCain event. (Updated with audio)»

The Iowa Independent reports that a minister who spoke at John McCain’s rally in Davenport, IA today injected a divisive statement into his invocation. Here’s what Pastor Arnold Conrad said:

I would also add, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and election day.

UPDATE: Listen to Conrad’s remarks here: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/11/invocation-davenport/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. What a disgusting so called "human being"..and he is supposed to be a man of God?

If there is a God, he should strike that man with a bolt of lightning for talking like that...

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Not to mention the Great God Hindu. All fall down in fear of Hindu.

These bastards are so incredibly ignorant that it's difficult to accept them as members of my species.

[caraher]

16. that's a bit unfair

"Hindu" is being used simply as an adjective.

But overall, that's the stupidest prayer I've ever heard. If God is omniscient and omnipotent, isn't more than just a tiny bit presumptuous and insulting to lecture the Big Dude Upstairs about the dire threat an Obama electoral victory poses to His reputation? This is the sort of bozo would presume to lecture the Supreme Being before he'd ever consider praying for a scrap of wisdom or compassion...

[madeline_con]

27. Nope, they're used as proper nouns.

"... praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah ..."

[caraher]

37. That's someone's transcript

You can listen to the loon talk. Insisting that his idiocy is also ungrammatical is merely piling on. The content should be the focus.

[tom_paine]

3. These fundies have such creepy medevial magical thinking.

So reminiscent of children playing at Dungeons & Dragons

Hit! Hit! Jesus hits Buddha with 10+6d!
Liar!

[RadicalTexan]

4. I love it when they tacitly admit that they believe in other gods

:rofl:

[Speck Tater]

5. I don't know about Jesus and Allah, but as a Buddhist I can tell you for sure...

that the Buddha is dead. Has been for 2500 years now.

[Jackpine Radical]

19. And wasn't a god in the first place.

[Speck Tater]

29. Exactly! He was a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and self-help guru, NT

[Bluebear]

6. "Dear Hindu, please let Obama win" . . . oh these people are stupid. nt

[panader0]

7. It's the WAR OF THE GODS!!!

[Stellabella]

22. Yes - My god is bigger than YOUR god!!

Nyahh, nyahh.

What a bunch of ignorant brats.

[WarbirdForObama]

8. I think it's high time

these Fundie Asswipes should start losing that tasty tax exempt status for shit like this.....

[Xipe Totec]

9. I don't know these people - says Jehovah

In a rare appearance before a large crowd today, The Lord delivered a brief message through his interpreter, The Metatron.

"Buddha and Allah are my close friends and, for the good of the universe, we've all decided that Obama is the best choice for President. I don't know these people who are calling themselves my followers, and I don't want to know them."

[Poseidan]

10. RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRR

UNACCEPTABLE

[charlie]

11. Theatrical piety won't save you

after you've told your God he'll be a punk on Nov 4th. Too funny.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. So we should ask Mithra and Horus to help

elect him?

These idiots are just amazing...

For those ignorant of this... the Mithraic and Horus Myths have way and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, WAAAAYYYYY too many similarities to the Christian Myth.

[AzNick]

14. Thor should hit him on the head with his mighty hammer nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Been in the middle of wriing a fantasy story

where I use Mithra as the main deity... I can take potshots and not be too damn obvous

But as I read on it... the similarities were so funny.

I even considered opening the Temple of Mithra for real... though I'll admit, I preffer the reefs under the Goddess ... and the crucifixion is not as cruel

[conscious evolution]

39. All born on Dec 25.

What is it about that day?
Oh!I know.It's there god fathers getting all drunk and horny on st. patricks day.

[AzNick]

13. Hindu not a god, Buddah either and Allah is ... God!

A Hindu is not a god but the believer of the Hinduist religion. And I still do not understand their religion, although I tried. I have had two Hindus explain it to me one day and it sounds like they had more chances of teaching me the rules of Cricket.

Buddhism does not have a god, at least not the creationist and omnipotent concept of god that the Jews, Christians and Muslims have in common.

Also Allah is God in Arabic, not the God of the Muslim. Arab-speaking Christians, for instance the Maronites, pray in Arabic and God is named Allah. Was a shock to a friend of mine who married a Lebanese man.

Dieu, Deus, Dios, Dio, Gott, God, Allah = same entity.

How many times have I had to explain that the Muslims worship the same God and also consider Jesus a prophet?

The media also have a habit of not translating "Allah" into "God" when translating the words of a Muslim into English. That is something that I despise, because it only perpetuates the ignorance.

[caraher]

17. The real whackjob fundies deny the common religious thread between Allah and their God

Jack Chick (the cartoon Bible tract guy) has at least one full-length screed about Allah being an Arab "Moon god."

These folks are pretty industrious about creating alternate realities (like the dinosaur footprints Palin "saw" with human footprints inside)

[Odin2005]

21. IIRC the "moon god" BS comes from...

Pre-Islamic Mecca being a center for the worship of a noon deity represented by the Kaaba or something like that.

[Odin2005]

20. And "Allah" is cognate with the Hebrew word "Elloh." both literally mean "The God"

[Leopolds Ghost]

30. You think that's amazing? It's the ARAMAIC (Jesus' language) NAME FOR GOD!

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/Elah/elah.html

YES, that is an ALEPH and the person who wrote this website is using "weasel letters" to avoid
the fact that it is actually spelled "ALLAH" in Aramaic lettering.

(Aramaic has its own Hebraic alphabet and Allah / Elah are the same word in Aramaic!)

[Lubernaut]

18. No mention of Led Zeppelin?

Not even Zeus?

[johnfunk]

23. What? No mention of Cthulhu? Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

I'm outraged!!

[AzNick]

24. RAmen to that!

[madeline_con]

26. Zoroastrians are up in arms, too! n/t

[madeline_con]

25. Lookin' out for god's rep.

How insane of him. :puke:

[orestes]

28. So this guy is admitting that there are, in fact, multiple gods?

Didn't realize that was kosher in Christian circles.

So much for monotheism, not that most forms of Christianity are particularly monotheistic anyway.

[rucky]

33. We can scratch another Commandment off their list.

[johnaries]

31. Don't worry, Lao-tse and the Yellow Emperor say Obama's in the bag.

And BTW, Jesus was a Daoist. Just compare his teachings to the Dao De Jing written 500 years earlier.

[conscious evolution]

40. That has been my impression too.

Way too many similarities in what they taught.
Plus,the wise men from the east seeking out the new student the way did is an old taoist tradition that is still going on today.

[conscious evolution]

41. That has been my impression too.

Way too many similarities in what they taught.
Plus,the wise men from the east seeking out the new student the way did is an old taoist tradition that is still going on today.

[ArmedAmerican]

32. roll a save against your wisdom to avoid sounding like an idiot

oh...you fail your saving throw. The rest of the party laughs at you for 1d4 minutes.

[conscious evolution]

42. Uhhh....What?

Could you run that by me again.I think it lost something in translation.

[marmar]

43. I think you rolled.....a joint.

:smoke:

[TheKentuckian]

34. Stupid Freepers

they want to base civilization on the Bible but apparently couldn't make it through Genesis themselves. The Abraham and Ishmael story should tip them off.
It should also be apparent to the independent observer that these guys are just nuts talking out of their ass.

[VOX]

35. So, in Arnie Conrad's theology, God needs Arnie's coaching to stay out of Underachiever's Jail...

Guess it's plain to see that an omniscient, omnipresent, higher consciousness actually **needs** Pastor Arnold Conrad to squire it around Iowa, at least. The only logical conclusion to be made is that...Arnold Conrad is, in fact, God!

Now, let's get out there -- and remember, our immortal reputations are involved! :rofl:

[Vinca]

36. It makes you wish if there was a Jesus he'd come back and

slap these idiots up side the head.

[Dorian Gray]

38. Wow.

He's a total idiot.

I can't stand preachers like this.

[Recursion]

44. A lot of "Christians" aren't really monotheists

There's a lot of "my God is stronger than other gods" mentality out there. The problem being that's very theologically wrong from a Christian standpoint; there aren't "other" gods out there according to doctrine.

[bertman]

45. So now God is being told what to do by the Pastors instead of the other way around.

That's what I call a new theology.

[TWiley]

46. I really dislike conservative Christians

Actually, I think I hate them. They are wrong about almost everything they pontificate about.

I really believe the time has come to tax those bastards. Otherwise, I wish someone would franchise mega-science centers incorporating charter schools which focus on logic, math, science, and liberal politics. It is more than a little annoying that my tax dollars are being use to fund the KKK - creationism mentality that has all but destroyed our world.

Little of value has come out of religion over the past thousands of years, and it is high time to turn the page on this mental illness.

[madmom]

47. So when Obama wins, we can tell them god answered and the answer was NO!