Guest Furball Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I was coming back from my long walk at about 8 this morning and noticed there was a lady all by herself, kneeling down in the rain on the wet concrete clutching her bible to her chest so tight like her life depended on her not letting it go of it. She was kneeling on the side walk outside a planned parent hood building. She was in full view of me for like almost 10 minutes as i walked by. I just thought, what the hell does she think is going to happen? An angel will come down and smite the planned parenthood building or something? She had her head down praying while people just ignored her and went about there business. I just looked at her like what the F are you doing. Get up, you look like an F'n loon. I just don't understand how people can do crap like this and not feel the slightest bit of embarrassment. -just thought i'd share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted December 19, 2014 Super Moderator Share Posted December 19, 2014 She at least has the courage of her convictions, most of us just don't agree with her views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Hopefully she will notice that all that effort produced no results and start to doubt the efficacy of prayer. Or else decide that she just wasn't praying hard enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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francesco Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 i'd rather had her kneeling on cold wet concrete in rainy day only giving herself cold than bombing the building causing other lost of life and injury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentLoner Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Heh. I'll be escorting at a Planned Parenthood tomorrow morning. I've seen some crazy/stupid crap over the years, but I've never seen anyone kneel for ten minutes straight. I guess the antis at my PP are lazy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♦ Fuego ♦ Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I used to be there with her. Not hard to remember why. When your worldview is shaped by thinking the invisible world of the Bible is all real, then what she is doing makes sense. But no god is listening despite her fervent love and devotion. No spiritual warfare is happening. No sword of the spirit, no demons of deception, no principalities - just believers pouring their hearts out to the wind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymistake Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 She is probably thinking that since Jesus is going to reward her times infinity so the least she can do is make herself miserable for a few short decades. She is just expressing her gratitude for all Jesus has done. And if she dies of pneumonia that simply means her infinite reward will start sooner. So . . . not just looks like a loon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castiel233 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I have mentioned this before, but I have seen a man, kneeling and bowing to Jesus in the local high street, proclaiming (through a mega phone) "I worship you King Jesus" over and over and over again and he was doing it all by himself. Of course he looked like a nut, but I guess he really believed that Jesus was peering over the clouds and smiling with him. I guess she was the same. I have never seen a believer crouch down, say , by a broken down car and pray to Jesus to fix it. I guess deep down they know that pray does not work, they are merely collecting God points to be redeemed after they get to Heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deva Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Doing her bit for God, I guess. I have to admit I never really believed in "the power of prayer" past the age of nine. Sad that people are so wrapped up in themselves and their imaginary pipeline to God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BendyLine Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Isn't there a bit in Matthew about not praying in the street like the hypocrites? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I was coming back from my long walk at about 8 this morning and noticed there was a lady all by herself, kneeling down in the rain on the wet concrete clutching her bible to her chest so tight like her life depended on her not letting it go of it. She was kneeling on the side walk outside a planned parent hood building. She was in full view of me for like almost 10 minutes as i walked by. I just thought, what the hell does she think is going to happen? An angel will come down and smite the planned parenthood building or something? She had her head down praying while people just ignored her and went about there business. I just looked at her like what the F are you doing. Get up, you look like an F'n loon. I just don't understand how people can do crap like this and not feel the slightest bit of embarrassment. -just thought i'd share Why doesn't her Jebus erase abortion clinics off the face of the earth... does Jebus not care about abortion? Does Jebus (gulp) approve of abortion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Isn't there a bit in Matthew about not praying in the street like the hypocrites? Matthew 6:5-7. Don't pray in the streets so that men can see you praying. Go pray in private so that only god knows you are praying. And don't prattle on repeating things to be verbose since god already knows what you're praying about. (This is me summing it up, not a full quote.) There's no real need to pray at all since god already knows what you want and whether or not he's going to do anything about it. I think you're just supposed to pray to remind him he's great. For some reason he just likes watching us beg. I guess being creator of the universe wasn't enough of a power trip for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duderonomy Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 If she was doing it to "raise awareness" and make a political point, more power to her. If she was doing it in some belief that it would make things better in the world, and she wasn't doing any harm, more power to her again, although I hope the God she was praying to wasn't the one that drowned all the unborn in Noah's flood and had all of those precious unborn Amalekite babies slaughtered, or on and on... If she was doing it to show someone, including herself what a good Believer she was, then yeah, she should come in out of the rain. She has her reward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Furball Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Couldn't she just have prayed at home though? I mean praying on the driveway sidewalk bowing your head towards the place, is that more effective than just praying at home? -even when i was a xtian i would not have done something like this, and i was a nut-case xtian too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Couldn't she just have prayed at home though? I mean praying on the driveway sidewalk bowing your head towards the place, is that more effective than just praying at home? -even when i was a xtian i would not have done something like this, and i was a nut-case xtian too. Maybe she thinks god will take her prayer more seriously if she is suffering from the bad weather and possible public humiliation during it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator TheRedneckProfessor Posted December 23, 2014 Super Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2014 I just don't understand how people can do crap like this and not feel the slightest bit of embarrassment. In my teenage years, I did this kind of thing all the time. I always felt embarrassed about it, though... mortified, really. Unfortunately, I firmly believed that if I was ashamed of jesus before men, he'd be ashamed of me before the father. So, I had no choice but to swallow my pride and do it. So thankful not to be brainwashed anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castiel233 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 I just don't understand how people can do crap like this and not feel the slightest bit of embarrassment. In my teenage years, I did this kind of thing all the time. I always felt embarrassed about it, though... mortified, really. Unfortunately, I firmly believed that if I was ashamed of jesus before men, he'd be ashamed of me before the father. So, I had no choice but to swallow my pride and do it. So thankful not to be brainwashed anymore. Deep down I am sure their are many believers who are ashamed of Jesus. I once read that JW's hate door knocking. The one time I nearly converted, (many years ago) I was deeply embarrassed to talk about God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentLoner Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Why was she doing that? Because Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Furball Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Couldn't she just have prayed at home though? I mean praying on the driveway sidewalk bowing your head towards the place, is that more effective than just praying at home? -even when i was a xtian i would not have done something like this, and i was a nut-case xtian too. Maybe she thinks god will take her prayer more seriously if she is suffering from the bad weather and possible public humiliation during it. Racking up the jesus points-someone's gonna get the platinum harp in fairy land when they die 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymistake Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I just don't understand how people can do crap like this and not feel the slightest bit of embarrassment. In my teenage years, I did this kind of thing all the time. I always felt embarrassed about it, though... mortified, really. Unfortunately, I firmly believed that if I was ashamed of jesus before men, he'd be ashamed of me before the father. So, I had no choice but to swallow my pride and do it. So thankful not to be brainwashed anymore. Notice the double bind? The sin is to feel an emotion. But there is no way to control what emotions we feel. So we are suppose to feel emotions we don't feel and not feel the emotions we do feel or else we are in sin. And that sin makes us guilty. Christianity is full of these double binds that unfairly snare people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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