A Freeper Prayer

To follow up from my post where I noted that for many Freepers, religion is as much a partisan weapon as it is anything else, here (via an Anon Commenter) is a thread wherein the increasingly active Jim Robinson prays:

Now once again our great nation and great people face a great evil. And this time it is an insidious evil that has crept in from foreign shores and during the last 100 years has infiltrated into every institution of our society and is poisoning the minds of our youth and destroying our moral society. It is the scourge of Marxism, communism, socialism, collectivism, totalitarianism, and the related cultures of sodomy, depravity and death. We believe it is unholy and destructive to the society and free nation that was established in your name and under your divine guidance and with your blessings. Dear Lord, We pray for the strength and wisdom to resist this latest new form of insidious tyranny that has now gripped our nation from within. This evil scourge has already completely taken over one of our two great major political parties from which the majority of our elected government officials are selected, and is now threatening to take over the other. If they are allowed to let the sodomites, the abortionists, the socialists, the corrupt and greedy power mongers and evil-doers take over the majority of our elected offices, after they've already taken over our government and educational institutions at all levels and have even infiltrated into our churches and houses of worship, then we fear greatly for our future as a nation under God and for the independence and liberty of our posterity. Dear Lord, the collectivists, sodomites and evil-doers are inside the gates. We pray once again for your divine guidance and that as we fight this great battle for liberty, we are doing so not only in your name, but with your blessings. We pray for miraculous delivery from evil. Your will be done. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen

Really, just another declaration of principles, with a bit more of the God thrown in.

What's really interesting, though, is the Freeper responses.

Dr. Thorne knows God is merciful, unless he isn't.

our God is a merciful God. He hears our humble prayers and with Him all things are possible. He may still turn from His wrath, forgive our sin and heal our land. Regardless, although He may punish a nation, he still loves us and blesses those who truly love Him and desire righteousness. We do our best fighting on our knees.

RonInNaples laments how no one rioted when we stopped praying in school:

This country, based on God-given rights and not rights bestowed by any government, was going along just fine until us good folks stood back and let the idiots kick God out of the public domain. We didn’t do much when school prayers were banned, nor did we riot at Christmas display bans, removal of the Ten Commandments from any public building (Aren’t We the People, the ‘public’?(, and so on and so on and so on. If ‘they’ can banish God, then there are no RIGHTS derived from that God that they have decreed to not exist.

I also enjoy the "If we're not a theocracy, there are no rights" logic.

Psalm 144 knows God really only likes his culture.

But I do greatly fear for our nation and our freedom and I sincerely pray that what we do is in accordance to God’s will. The fear has overwhelmed me. I empathize. For me, I had to come to grips with definitions. America, the nation, the United States, the United States government are each different things; although there is overlap, there is not a perfect congruence. I pray for America, and for Americans. I pray for my culture, which does NOT flow through New England, the tail which has wagged the American dog for far too many generations. As for the government in Washington, the leading political parties and their leaders, may God grant them all that they have earned. To the last measure.

We'll end with Quix's special apocalyptic faith:

So many sources are insisting that 2012 WILL DEFINITELY SEE CHAOS and/or disaster in many of our streets . . . whether from natural disaster, terrorists, false flag operations and/or WW3, I’m pretty much convinced that some level of that is quite likely before the SElection or shortly thereafter—more likely before, I’d think. I think the civil war meme so often reported on by so many sources has now moved from the plausible to the highly likely category in my thinking and feeling. They REALLY DO WANT TO UTTERLY DESTROY OUR REPUBLIC. They are very determined and very capable from a list of ways. We do ourselves nor our Republic nor our loved ones any good by being immobilized and certainly not by eating our own. We MUST SEEK GOD FIRST AND SUPPORT ALL WHO DO SEEK GOD FIRST AND WHO SEEK TO DO GOOD IN THE LAND. There is NO TIME LEFT for ANY other choice.