Comments on: I pray this is a joke

I pray this is a joke

jonson — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:54:26 -0800

Along the same lines of sites designed to get kids to eat more red meat comes the Presidential Prayer Kids website, which instructs the young on how best to support our leader through prayer. This week's lesson instructs the Bush Youth to be faithful, compares them to dogs. "They are showing their faithfulness by obeying the commands they are given and by doing exactly the job they were trained for."

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:03:26 -0800

I was relieved to see this: The Presidential Prayer Team is not affiliated with, nor does it receive funding from, any political party or office of the government.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:13:16 -0800

Don't they have filters for this kind of content? Won't somebody think of the children?

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:15:49 -0800

If anyone saying they are from The Presidential Prayer Kids contacts you (other than to respond to your question or request or to send you birthday greetings or updates), please tell your parents or the authorities.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:36:02 -0800

God doesn't exist! There you go, that's my contribution to the discussion.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:40:39 -0800

The site is registered to this group, which appears to have a long religion-related client list. It's probably a one-off thing they made up, and not sanctioned by the white house.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:41:00 -0800

I'm calling Godwin on these guys!

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:58:57 -0800

~"Do you know what faithfulness is? When you are faithful, you do what you say you will do. You keep the commitments that you have made..."~ LMAO. It sounds like they should direct their lessons to some of the politicians they're trying to get the kids to pray for, instead.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:00:37 -0800

doing exactly the job they were trained for *grammar wince*

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:00:49 -0800

God does too exist! However, he suffers from Alzheimer's and has forgotten that we exist! There you go, that's my contribution to Pretty_Generic's contribution to the discussion, with apologies to Miss Tomlin.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:06:40 -0800

"*grammar wince*" *trigger happy grammar Nazi wince*

By: me3dia

me3dia — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:10:11 -0800

My first reaction to the URL was, "PowerPoint Kids?"

By: benjh

benjh — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:29:31 -0800

Yes kids, you too can be mindless, following puppets of a corrupt organization. Don't speak out and dissent, it's not cool. Dissent isn't cool, its what smelly, dirty hippies do. Do you want to grow up to be a dirty, smelly hippy? No you don't. So love Jesus, and love the President, and do whatever he says. But whatever you do, don't dissent. And pray for those who do dissent, because they are going to hell. A hell that burns, and is horrible, and they will live in anguish because they didn't love George W Bush, who is Jesus Christ, our lord and savior, in a new form, and we must follow him, but never dissent.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:41:33 -0800

damn hippies

By: samuelad

samuelad — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:47:08 -0800

Cool-2b-real's arch enemy: Pork4Kids.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:48:06 -0800

Me, I'm teaching my kids to kick some ass.

By: The Jesse Helms

The Jesse Helms — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:51:52 -0800

The problem with any God in Government is this: Whatever the decision or policy, there is no need to explain one's reasoning to anyone, if it is God's will. Simply choose to do something, say you are acting in God's will, and the 50% of the country that believes Fox News will bend easily, and accordingly. There is very little work, and almost no need for evidence, reasoning, logic. Deferring to God from Government is either the sign of a weak mind or of an evil soul. May God help us.

By: serafinapekkala

serafinapekkala — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:55:12 -0800

my brain hurts from trying to figure out the dark twists of logic this painfully cheery site lays out...let me see if i understand: God wants "us" to be faithful, and follow his commands, and "we" should do so and pray for our national leaders to do the same. so how about that pesky "Thou shalt not kill"? that must be what they mean about the soldiers having "a hard job to do." right. man, i have the christo-fascist creeps in a big way...better check out pork4kids.com...YEAGHH! :-0

By: The Jesse Helms

The Jesse Helms — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:55:20 -0800

More succintly: There are those that are gullible enough to believe that God has a hand in Government, and there are those who invoke God in Government to sway the gullible.

By: cinderful

cinderful — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:07:41 -0800

Is this another "Hey! Let's mock Christians! Stupid Christians!" thread? HateFilter.

By: zaack

zaack — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:12:40 -0800

I say let's turn it into a "Hey! Let's mock cinderful. Stupid cinderful and his idiotic web site!" thread. AnnoyingFilter.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:13:07 -0800

Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it is.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:16:49 -0800

cinderful - It's not hate. Seriously. Christians are a giggle-fest. We don't hate you. We just think you're silly. But, it's a lot less destructive than other ideologies, so no harm really. If you want to have faith in all that Christian stuff that's fine with me. You go for it with my blessing.

By: mark13

mark13 — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:21:27 -0800

serafinapekkala: God wants "us" to be faithful, and follow his commands, and "we" should do so and pray for our national leaders to do the same. so how about that pesky "Thou shalt not kill"? Isn't it strange that Jesus was the ultimate peacenik and people have been butchering each other over the "correct" interpretation of his teachings ever since? Logic and organized religion: two things that never, ever go together.

By: arha

arha — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:25:41 -0800

"just silly" "a lot less destructive than other ideologies" You know what they say... it's all fun and games until a born-again unelected dumbard from Texas starts World War 3.

By: Celery

Celery — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:36:51 -0800

I am quite an entusiastic christian but I also reckon that any form of religion or religious motivation in politics is just BAD news; for the government, for the religious establishment, for everyone really. But you have to admit praying for the government is probably one of the least harmful things we subjects can do. Also, I can definitely see the funny side to religion (Must be cause i'm a Catholic)

By: samelborp

samelborp — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:51:42 -0800

What is truly sad is to think about the consulting company that convinced the National Pork Board and the America's Beef Producers that it would be fantastic for them to build those websites. That kind of cheap and dirty way of advertising should be banned! It's laughable because those sites (I hope) are useless, but... acks! I am outraged!!!

By: bingbangbong

bingbangbong — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:02:55 -0800

pork4kids.com... anyone else take "pork" as the word's slang meaning?

By: cinderful

cinderful — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:03:07 -0800

I still think we should make fun of Mormons more often or something. Or maybe Nihilists. "We don't care about aannnyyything" haha zaack. I don't even HAVE a website. Redmeat quote notwithstanding.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:06:53 -0800

Lord, watch over Halliburton, Bechtel, Raytheon and Lockheed, in this, our hour of need.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:16:08 -0800

From the beef for the kiddies site: Fill in the missing letters: _AM_URGER *scratches head*

By: palancik

palancik — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:28:00 -0800

As a non-profit, charitable organization, shouldn't they make some effort at bipartisanship when it comes to invoking the deity? Did anyone see any slightest hint of encouragement to pray for a Democrat? Dwight D. Eisenhower, Colin Powell, Andrew Card!!!!
'Scuse me, gotta go pray into the big white porcelain phone . . .

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:30:56 -0800

haha zaack. I don't even HAVE a website I believe zaack was referring to the website you list as your URL on your userpage. And I have to agree that is IS idiotic...

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:37:54 -0800

I AM LURGER?

By: PsychoKick

PsychoKick — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:57:04 -0800

cinderful: I still think we should make fun of Mormons more often or something. Or maybe Nihilists. How Christ-like of you. Such behavior really makes me want to return to the fold. [/sarcasm]

By: nickmark

nickmark — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:58:50 -0800

"But you have to admit praying for the government is probably one of the least harmful things we subjects can do." I am a citizen, not a subject.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:15:39 -0800

Since "Operation Iraqi Freedom" began, you might have felt a little worried or scared. That's okay--lots of boys and girls are feeling that way. But when you stop and remember that our God is faithful, it makes some of those scary feelings go away, doesn't it? nah, i'm not scared. this planet (nor universe) doesn't matter at all. i'm eternally saved, so let's destroy the Earth for good. praying for the government may not be (directly) harmful (unless you've got an inside track to God), but it's useless.

By: skallas

skallas — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:55:39 -0800

I think I'm going to be sick. Praying point number two is especially odd: 2. Pray for our troops to be faithful To be faithful means, among other things, to have faith. Faith is the belief of things without physical proof. So they're asking a deity to control their minds? Might as well just cut out the middle man and insert this into the site: 4. Pray for God to turn those Muslims into good Christians. Calling Anne Coulter...

By: phatboy

phatboy — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:05:10 -0800

Regarding that awesome pork4kids site, check out the cool cartoon!.

By: konolia

konolia — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:47:45 -0800

I'm staying out of these threads from now on. Nothing useful in them.

By: benjh

benjh — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:19:52 -0800

We just think you're silly. But, it's a lot less destructive than other ideologies, so no harm really. I know I wasn't alive, so I didn't see it first hand... but... the crusades... the Spanish Inquisition (no monty python references, please)....

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 20:08:31 -0800

all religion is dumb, and i say that as a smoker that may have asthma!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:53:54 -0800

phatboy, you're right, that is a crazy cartoon... Peggy the Pork Chop opened her eyes and looked around. She was lost. "Where am I?" Peggy wondered, "I remember taking a walk and then I fell asleep under this tree." Sorry Peggy, there was this little... incident that happened between your walk and now. It's called being slaughtered. Happens all the time. No wonder you can't remember anything. (OK, back to your regularly scheduled Christians-are-basically-harmless discussion.)