OMG! That Rick Perry thing is just something right out of a bad dream...

[CleanGreenFuture]

Decided to follow a link to the stream (http://theresponseusa.com/)

It is completely inconceivable to me how far this nation has fallen.

Jesus is going to save us? Pleading Jesus' blood to end abortion?

This is so...unsettling.

[LiberalLoner]

1. They seem absolutely insane, don't they? They do to me, anyway. n/t

[RagAss]

37. Because...they are.

[glinda]

90. And that fact alone should be headline news.

[roguevalley]

96. Jesus wouldn't go there either. with a free ticket.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Now why did you make me go there! I came in on a prayer for America.

My prayer for America: God, save us from these morons who expect you to save us.

[monmouth]

19. I wasn't going to click on it, read your post so I did. I'm surprised there

are a lot of people there. Save us all....LOL.

[Curmudgeoness]

I also was surprised by that, especially

since I have seen so many posts about all the empty seats. But then again, I guess you can make it look good with camera angles when you are doing your own filming. But you are right, there are a lot of people. And it is really hot there! I guess I should be kind and say "god bless them". But I won't. I will quote you by saying "save us all".

[Raine]

88. Kochroach bros probably provided buses to bus the flock

in from all the "churches".

[butterfly77]

58. Here ya go...

MATTHEW CHAPTER 6

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 ¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

[sendero]

86. Only ojne..

.. of thousands of biblical passages that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that these people are NOT Christians.

[Curmudgeoness]

87. That is my favorite verse. "They have their reward." nt

[workinclasszero]

89. That verse describes Perry's teabagger/Randian prayer meeting to a T!

5 ¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

If the teabagger rethugs ever take over America they would shortly be burning books and then their political opponents at the stake. All in the name of their savior Ayn Rand!

Perry and his ilk need to meditate on why Texas is baking away into a desert after they prayed to God to break the drought. A tropical storm was headed right for Texas and it evaporated before hardly a drop hit the dried out land.

Hmm...

Where are all the rethuglican preachers who pronounced the wrath of God had descended on Japan and New Orleans because of their sins? What about Texas freeper preachers????? Surly their sins must be great to have the heavens shut tight like a drum against them for so long, eh?

You can pray to your unholy trinity(Mammon, Rand and Limpballs) all u want baggers, it ain't going to do a thing for yah!

[butterfly77]

100. Amen...

[BiggJawn]

3. "Dear Lard, save me from Your followers..."

The Rise of the Superstitious...

[BeHereNow]

9. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Mr. Hate Himself addressing the crowd

How ironic.
BHN

[BiggJawn]

18. Hagee? He's on now?

His old man was a piece of work.

[BeHereNow]

20. He was blathering for a few minutes-tweet from the page:

"Pastor John Hagee reads Ephesians 1:15-23 ad prays, "We confess that we are still one nation under God.""

How fucking arrogant can these people be-
AS IF America was some special personal pet of GAWD.

Seems to me they should be praying for the victims of Somalia, not their
own selfish interests.

BHN

[backscatter712]

74. Preach on, brother! n/t

[Aerows]

4. They are probably handling snakes

speaking in tongues and sacrificing chickens by now.

[Fuddnik]

8. Did you see Bill Mahers commercial for the event last night?

"Free snakes for the kids".

[Aerows]

68. I didn't

but it certainly would be apt if that's how he termed it!

[gkhouston]

80. I hope the snakes don't catch anything. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

5. They all remind me of Mrs. Carmody-esque characters from Stephen King's short story, "The Mist"

And probably Carrie's mother from Carrie, as well.

PB

[ZombieHorde]

6. Hahahahahahaha!

[BeHereNow]

7. Scary stuff.

They all seem drugged.
Maybe it's the heat in Texas?
BHN

[Ilsa]

14. More like mindless submission. nt

[spanone]

10. soon to be republican candidate perry doesn't understand the separation of church & state

ignorant man wants to be president

[BeHereNow]

11. There are various groups suing him for the very point you make.

And they are right to do so.
They are saying he is using his political power to ignore
the law. It's posted somewhere on DU today.
BHN

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. now that is scary .... it's like a right-wing Jesus Nuremberg rally

[The Wielding Truth]

13. Did that guy just say," God come in a corporate way.?"

Maybe it was the twisted way that the goodness of Christianity is being used to launch a destructive crusade against our Country and our Democratic Republic.

This is so sick. The love of Christ is not what is the real reason for this pray-in. If it were Rick Perry would not be there as a politician.He would bring reason and good works. He should be struck down by the God he is abusing.

False profit I see the your shadows in this sleekly piously evil spectacle.

[RagAss]

28. Yes....Ordained Fascism....understand yet?

[Fuddnik]

15. BYOS

Bring Your Own Snakes.

[BeHereNow]

16. "Groups of Three" to pray for economy and industry and those who oppose us...

Bwahahahah!
These people are barking mad!
BHN

[StarsInHerHair]

84. Christian black magick, to pray against people, for their harm

[Ezlivin]

17. That's an IQ blackhole

There's a vacuum of intelligence in that stadium.

I wonder what the reaction would be if Muslims were holding a giant rally at a stadium and praying for a change in this country? Not hard to guess....

[CleanGreenFuture]

21. So much for all the reports of low ticket sales. Looks like a packed house to me.

Which is really scary since I live among those people.

I'm losing all hope. They are begging Jesus to make things better. Hell, Perry couldn't even get God to make it rain, instead getting a very bad drought. Now he's asking for a healed nation.

I just want to cry.

[Frustratedlady]

35. I'm sure it is air conditioned, which would be worth the price of admission for some.

I don't know what 8-9000 looks like, but that has to be part of the stadium, as it sure couldn't be 71,000 people in there. I think that's what it held. Anyone know?

[SpiralHawk]

50. queer camera angles can make any place 'look' full

One must remember that these entities are masters of occultist black-ops...

make no mistake

[BiggJawn]

22. Well, I see Christian rock music is still sung in a minor (off) key..

Oh, Jeebus, send them a quartz tuner!

[JoePhilly]

23. Wow ... this is frightening. But like a car accident ....

There's a guy explaining to God what kind of God he is.

And they have some one translating from English to Spanish ... I thought they were against that?

wow ... I want to stop watching, but it's just too crazy to stop watching.

[BiggJawn]

25. Giving the sales pitch for Likkud.

Getting warmed up for a pitch on why we need to keep giving $4,000,000 a year to Israel...

I couldn't watch anymore, it really nauseates me. I had to listen to shit like this 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

[condoleeza]

31. Where is the Taliban when we need them? nt

[Lost-in-FL]

38. That's cold.

:spray:

[BeHereNow]

41. Actually, it pretty funny. I laughed. n/t

bhn

[backscatter712]

75. That's the Christian Taliban we're watching! n/t

[condoleeza]

77. Exactly

same mentality, different "God". Have a bumper sticker that says "Who would Jesus bomb?", get honked at and flipped off by these types pretty regularly and it isn't my driving. Listening to this is pretty scary, the blank stares on the blissed-out. I was raised that way, I escaped.

[BeHereNow]

26. I'm right there with you- it's fascinating in a horrific way...

Who the HELL is that whack-job talking now?
Anybody know?

BHN

[krabigirl]

24. I can't watch.. Too creepy for me.

[RagAss]

29. Please don't turn away...this is our future...know the enemy.

[BeHereNow]

34. The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood.

Christo-Fascism has come to the USA.
BHN

[RagAss]

44. Oh yeah.

[RagAss]

27. While we were sleeping, these crazy bastards took over this country.

Wake the Fuck Up !!!!

[CleanGreenFuture]

30. Who are you telling to "wake the fuck up"?

[RagAss]

33. Obviously not you...you opened the friggin thread !!!!

[CleanGreenFuture]

46. My question had a point...I think most here are already awake as to

the detrimental effect of right-wing religious lunatics ruining our society.

[RagAss]

48. Agreed...But we don't have a media to support sanity yet.

[CanonRay]

32. This way exceeds my creep factor

and this is about 15-20% of the people in this country. Just terrifying.

[BeHereNow]

39. Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem song- any questions?

Daniel Pipes is probably rolling around in a vat of cotton candy in ecstasy...
Waiting for his turn to speak.
These people are SO arrogant!
I pray for God to smite THEM.
Bigots and hypocrites. God's least favorite people.
BHN

[Douglas Carpenter]

36. these fucking loony toons are apt to blow up the whole fucking world

believing that they are ushering in the second coming of Jesus Christ! And it is really very possible and perhaps even probable that these people will gain control over not one or two nuclear weapons - but the largest supply of nuclear weapons in the whole world!

[RagAss]

42. I'm sure the rest of the world is aware of this fact...that's even scarier !

[Little Star]

40. omg! I should have never clicked the link. I don't like that kinda prayer.

[RagAss]

43. That ain't prayer...that's delusion !

[BeHereNow]

45. Actually,it is VERY important to educate yourself!

They are real and they walk among us.
Sort of like the living dead- zombies of hatred
claiming that God tells them what to do.

Hell, that is blasphemy in itself.

BHN

[RagAss]

47. Where's Jim Jones when we need him?

[The Wielding Truth]

53. Not in heaven.

[Brother Buzz]

54. That commie pinko socialist bedwetting liberal?

One could only wish he was out in the lobby pouring the Kool-Aid.

[The Wielding Truth]

55. He was not a commie pinko socialist bedwetting liberal. He was one of them.

[Brother Buzz]

67. Jim Jones was a real leftist and would never, ever, have been invited to a shindig of this flavor

While he was in the Bay area, he was very involved the the Democratic party and all of the left leaning social issues, just ask Willie Brown. That is, if Willie is even willing to broach the subject.

[The Wielding Truth]

101. Thanks for the straight background. I did not examine the image I

had of the later Jones. I was not aware of his beginnings and knew him only as the religious fanatic who would be in a category much like these dangerous fools. Thanks again. I will try to research before I post such encompassing comments.

[fredamae]

49. Where's Rick? :) n/t

[one_voice]

51. What would have happened if...

that many Muslims wanted to gather or did gather to pray for their culture/countries..whatever? Would these God fearing Christians be so accepting to other religions (not like theirs) holding a big summit/rally--cuz that's what it is?

How would Fux News reported the story? The conservative internet?

[CleanGreenFuture]

52. I think they should do it. Next weekend even.

[L0oniX]

56. EPA worried about Rick Perry Prayer Rally:

all that bat shit baking under the hot Texas sun could cause major bio-hazard. Frank Conniff

[BeHereNow]

57. LOL! Good one babe! n/t

bhn

[Imajika]

59. Upper decks aren't totally full, but yeah, they definitely got a lot of fundies to turn out...

What are they praying for this time? Rain again? Maybe God made the last tropical storm that was supposed to hit Texas fizzle out just to spite them.

Watching some of these people is scary. It looks like many of them expect God to come down into the stadium right now. I bet half of them are really praying that the Lord smites Obama. The other half are probably asking to win the lottery.

[Warpy]

64. The stadium has AC, right?

There's your answer. You know how hot it's been in Texas for WEEKS. Friends in Houston have been reporting rolling blackouts for hours at a time and I imagine it's happening in other areas, as well.

Well timed rolling blackouts are the best way to boost attendance at a free, air conditioned pulpit pounding extravaganza.

[blkmusclmachine]

60. Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!

:hide:

[JoePhilly]

91. Check out my post from another thread ... you might not be far off ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1679961&mesg_id=1680074

[otohara]

61. Ack - Christian Rock

reminds me of the South Park where the boys new band isn't selling well, so they flip to Christian Rock and become HUGE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ibVbxkjnA

Holy Shit this sucks.

[Joe Bacon]

62. Stick a fork in the United States. We're finished.

Perry will get the GOP nomination and he will crush Obama in a 1980 type landslide. And The United States will break into pieces like the Soviet Union did.

This country is finished. And it's all being done in the name of a man who talks the Jesus talk, but walks the Ayn Rand walk.

[blkmusclmachine]

63. "Jesus plus nothing:"

"When (NOT "if") Fascism comes to America, it will be flag-draped and bearing the Holy Cross."

[condoleeza]

65. This blog tells who is behind this rally, pretty scary bunch

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/blog

[Blue_In_AK]

66. If Jesus answered prayers

it would be raining all over Texas today, and the temperature owuld be about 75.

[ekelly]

99. AMEN! ha ha! n/t

[RagAss]

69. Looks like an Oxy Convention to me.

[BeHereNow]

70. Is it just me! Have you noticed the music sounds like the SAME song over and over?

I swear they haven't changed keys once!
It just keeps droning on and on, same 3 chords, on and on....and on...
Think maybe it is meant to hypnotize the crowd?
Drive them deeper into delusional states of x-tianity?
It's driving me nuts- can't listen much longer.
I think I have gotten the jest of the hate fest by now.
It's just sort of captivating in a horrifying way.

BHN

[RagAss]

72. It ain't Steely Dan !...hahahahhaaaa

[JoePhilly]

92. Or even Cat Stevens ... oops, wrong Religion.

[Strelnikov_]

93. Ain't even Three Dog Night n/t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4&feature=related

Although the Dog does look a bit like Jesus, in the day.

[Strelnikov_]

81. Listen and be cleansed of the scourge of Christian Rock

04 - The Four Horsemen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVNeMV3fvUY

23 - All the Seats were Occupied
P1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBGRg9aJVGk
P2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XWNYKZ6ihk

I personally consider "All the Seats were Occupied" to be one of the greatest songs of the Prog Rock (Progressive Rock) era.

[Odin2005]

102. That's how they get people to speak in tongues, the music induces trance.

[BeHereNow]

71. Nit wit advocating for prayer in schools...

These are the American Version of the Taliban.

[JoePhilly]

94. Its cool ... but only if I can pick the prayers!!!

"Dear Lord, bless our 7th grade girl's lacrosse team today. Send them into battle against the Jackson Middle School Tigers, so that we might smite them in your honor, sending the little harlots home crying to their parents for wearing a uniform of mixed fabrics, while worshiping an animal from the heathen land of Africa. Amen."

The funniest part about this ... These are the same IDIOTS who hate public school teachers ... and yet they want the public school teachers they hate to teach their kids (and ours) religion.

Do they not see that? They are insane.

[RagAss]

73. How did those prayers for rain work out for ya ??

[backscatter712]

76. OK, who here has read Darrel Ray's _The God Virus_?

This is exactly what Ray's talking about. The music, the thrumming bass, the cadence of the preacher's sermons, the emotional wailing of the testimonials, the speaking-in-tongues. It's mass hypnosis designed to get you high as a kite on endorphins, hallucinate "God talking to you and filling you with the Holy Spirit" and filling you with a fresh virus load so you can become a biovector for Jesus and spread it around.

[JanMichael]

78. That is the creepiest shit I have seen since Beck was in DC

wonder if the Rude Pundit is watching; I hope so...

[Strelnikov_]

79. 'Christian Rock' is about as good as 'Conservative Comedy' n/t

[Arugula Latte]

82. Hey! You're pissing off the crazy Xtian nutbags like this fine specimen:

[Brother Buzz]

85. I viewed that episode. That was a very disturbing incident

This country needs to make a long term commitment to community mental health programs.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

83. I wonder if they will be reading from Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount

about the humble (poor in spirit), the meek, the merciful, the peacemakers, etc. Maybe the Tea Partiers in Congress will be listening.

[RagAss]

98. Hell no...that would actually be Christianity !

[southernyankeebelle]

95. Your shocked. You better get caught up. Read about the 7 mountains on how

these people are going to take over our country. They already have infiltrated the military, local school boards, media and so on. You better pray we don't get Palin, Bachman or Perry. We will be in very deep trouble. I am a religious person but I believe in separation of church and state.

[condoleeza]

97. And this is where they take you since the video coverage ended

http://peacewithgod.jesus.net/ Repent you sinners, they have all the answers there. Insert sarcasm icon here: ..........

They have created quite the network here to capture people who bought what they were selling, it's connected to Billy Graham Ministries, which I find disturbing on so many levels. These people are certifiable and they walk among us.