Prayer-a-Pooloza - the RESPONSE...... "you can not petition the lord with prayer"

[ladywnch]

Evidently Perry and company aren't sharp enough to recognize "The Response" their god has given them.....

Texas is in the worst drought in ages......every county is a disaster area, rivers are running at like 1% of their flow rates, lakes are running red from algea blooms due to low water and heat.

It would appear that Perry's god's response is to turn Texas into HELL.......baked, burning, desolate, no relief in site.... You guys might want to catch a clue.........god is PISSED AT YOU!.......and to quote Jim Morrison, "YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!!!!!!!"

[PoliticAverse]

1. There's no right to petition God for redress of grievances in the bible ? n/t

[hfojvt]

8. not unless you stop doing evil first

"When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow." Isaiah 1: 15-17

What is "doing good"?

Micah 6: 8 says

"He has shown you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justly
to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God?"

James 5 gives a "warning to rich oppressors" chiding them for

"you have lived on the earth in luxury and self-indulgence"

Luke 16: 19-22 says

"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side."


Bottom line, Perry, don't do your "tax cuts for the rich, benefit cuts for the poor" and then claim you are some sort of servant of the Lord. He's not buying it.

'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger and you did not invite me in. I needed clothes and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' Matthew 25: 41-43

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. But, dont you realize that the drought was/is caused by Obama

do I really need the sarcasm smiley?

[hobbit709]

3. Here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XlqCFi6o-E

[starroute]

4. So they've got the first plague -- when do the frogs show up?

Though frogs are having their own problems these days -- so maybe they need to go straight to the lice and flies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt

This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.

— Exodus 7:17–18

This is what the great LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.

— Exodus 8:1–4
Then the LORD said <…> "Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt." <…> When Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became lice.

— Exodus 8:16–17

This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.

— Exodus 8:20–21

There's been a theory for a while that the fall of the Egypt's Old Kingdom around 2200 BC was the result of drought -- and the evidence is piling up to confirm it. Here's the latest:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ancient-Egypt-was-destroyed-by.6811426.jp

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have confirmed that a severe period of drought around 4,200 years ago may have contributed to the demise of the civilisation.

Using seismic investigations with sound waves, along with carbon dating of a 100-metre section of sediment from the bed of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, the team were able to look back many thousands of years. They were able to see how water levels in the lake had varied over the past 17,000 years, with the sediment signalling lush periods but also times of drought. . . .

Dr Richard Bates, senior lecturer in earth sciences at St Andrews, said their studies had confirmed that the ancient civilisation that was the Egyptian Old Kingdom - often referred to as the Age of the Pyramids - may have experienced a prolonged period of drought of the same severity being seen in parts of Africa now.

"Part of this research was driven by whether we could see anything in the lake sediment that would help us understand more about that period of drought, which was during the 90-year period at the end of the Old Kingdom, which really caused its demise," he said.

I don't know if the Southwest is headed for a century-long drought like the one that did in the Anasazi, but I suspect Rick Perry may be due to find out that his god simply doesn't have the kind of power to set things right that he's counting on.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. God: *sigh* - Okay...Release the locusts!

The Kraken died from the oil spill.

[MadMaddie]

9. That's kinda funny...Release the Kra...oh what is that you say?

The Kracken is dead... oh never mind...

[Ikonoklast]

6. Gen. Phil Sheridan had it right.

[RadiationTherapy]

7. Successful Hills are Here to Stay. Everything Must Be This Way.

Gentle streets where people play
Welcome to the Soft Parade

All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place