As I was poking about the nutty side of the blogosphere today , I came across the following invocation:
Father God,
In our hearts we believe that you will hear our prayers and will put all these curses upon our enemies and on those who hate us, who persecute us. We will keep not silence, for the mouths of the wicked and the mouths of deceit are opened against us; they have spoken against us with lying TONGUES. They have compassed us about also with words of hatred, mockery, and deciept; and have fought against all that is Holy without a cause. In return for our agape love they are my adversaries, but we now resort to prayer. They have rewarded and laid upon us evil and slander for good, and hatred for love. Set a wicked man over them as judge, and let a malisious accuser stand at their right hand come Judgment Day.
When Liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes and her followers; when the wicked and mockers at Democratic Underground are judged, let them be condemned, and let their prayers for leniency be turned into sins. Let their days be few; and let others take their offices and charge. Let their children be parentless and their souses become widowed. Let their children be continual vagabonds as was Cain and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes.
IN JESUS NAME, I BIND UP EVERY DEMON COMING ACROSS THE COMPUTER LINES, AND I RETURN THEM AND ANY CURSES.
In Your Name, Amen.
As an example of an imprecatory prayer, or curse, it’s pretty mediocre, but the mere idea of such a prayer would strike many as anti-christian. We can easily imagine that muslim fundamentalists pray for similar retributions against American citizens. The barbarity of religion begins when hate turns to prayer and then prayer turns to action. It seems that we are two-thirds there.
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I hate to break it to you but that site is satire, even says so in the legal notice. So I wouldn’t get too worked up over it.
You are correct, I was initially deceived — and I am no more worked up then I usually am, but thanks. There have been a few other recent examples of ministers calling for imprecatory prayers recently, I choose this one because it seemed concise – my mistake. Sorry.
Hey, it is brilliant satire, very subtle until you realize that is from the Landover Baptist folks, a ton of people have been fooled. Lord knows I was a first until I researched the ‘author’ then I laughed myself ill. It is still funny as all get out that some folks think it is true and continue to ‘argue’ with the commenters/bloggers who are in on the joke.
I am not sure if it is great satire, but it is done very well. Great satire uses irony and over the top exaggeration to ridicule its target. This site is so believable that it’s hard to tell it is satire – that is the subtly you referred to. I think it’s getting harder to satirize these people because any exaggeration of their beliefs becomes fact at some point. It almost feels like reality has become satire – kind of sad, scary, and hilarious at at the same time.