["Can Prayer Stave Off Jihad in US?"]
Yes it will. Asking God for the ability and guidance to destroy our enemies is a proven tactic before battle to ensure victory.
Even if you only pray for a steady hand and a true aim, that will be enough.
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Then let's just pray away terrorism. If that will work, then we must not need the Patriot Act, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, massive spying, or the invasion of whatever country gets under Bushbaby's skin this week.
Sun Tzu say: "Know thy enemy."
Georges Danton say: "L'audace. L'audace. Toujours l'audace."
Fundie Fucktard say: "Pray..."
"Asking God for the ability and guidance to destroy our enemies is a proven tactic before battle to ensure victory."
Proven, you say?
No, the Bible does not count as a credible history source.
Yeah, see, both sides pray, one of them wins and said, hey, our prayers worked!>
Prayer doesn't do a damn thing except make the one praying feel as though s/he is helping.
Gadren: Win.
Papapear:"Prayer doesn't do a damn thing except make the one praying feel as though s/he is helping."
Yeah, so it might help improve/maintain the morale of religious soldiers.
Of course chances that you're going to win a war just because of that are about nil (and of course if you force non-religious soldiers to pray that might have adverse effects) .
BTW, anyone else reminded of The War Prayer? Be thou careful what thou wishest for ;-)
I'm with Trilobiter. God must get confused when both sides pray to him with equal ardor.
"Merciful and loving God, we entreat you to aid our cause and help us reduce our enemy to bloody shreds. Amen."
"Aw, man, they never leave me alone. Now both armies are asking for the very same outcome. Well, in the interest of fairness there's nothing to do except to grant both sides what they're asking for."
Exactly. I can just picture God on 9/11... 'OK, so these guys are praying for a good day, these guys are praying that I help them run airplanes into skyscrapers... eenie, meenie...'
Asking God for the ability and guidance to destroy our enemies is a proven tactic before battle to ensure victory.
Since both sides do this, it's pretty much a certainty that this will be right for one side or the other.
Oh, but of course. Here's a list of all the problems which have been permanently solved by prayer:
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Pretty impressive list, yes?
Okay, so God is all-knowing and all-seeing, and frankly, He's pretty astute. Which is how he knows that when the US goes to war, we'd kind of like to, you know, win?
But whatever would we do if we didn't pray?
No it won't, the other guy will be asking his God too! The Romans conquered the known world as Pagans, they were kicked around good by heathen barbarians after they found Christianity.PS Don't tell me about Constantine's dream of the Christian God giving him victory in battle and it coming to pass, his veterans and officers refused to be baptised because he had pulled the same trick on them years earlier with the sun god Marist promising him victory in a dream.
in one rpg campaign I was working on, praying to the gawdess of battle in this way was a common tactic ('course bless spells actually work in fantasy games).
However, another equally common tactic was to NOT pray before heading out to the field, and thus stand the chance of finding and running through that busy, kneeling, mumbling enemy army...
She didn't care as long as she got a good fight, so either one side got the other because they were being stupid and religious, both sides ran into each-other with no bonuses hoping the other was praying... or both sides ran into each-other once again on equal ground because they'd gotten blessed.
So really, what you want is for the OTHER side to ask their gawd for guidance, while you surround'em.
Nonprophet:
Both the Spanish Armada(when invading England) and the Mongol fleet(when invading Japan) were beaten by the kind of nasty weather theists often credit a God or Gods for. And then there's the (unsually mild) "protestant wind" which made it so much easier for William III to send over his army and take the english throne in the Glorious Revolution.
(Hey, SOMEONE's gotta argue the other side. Though it implies Anglicanism has equal validity with Shinto and all the other religions are wrong.)
#276931:
I mean, who's to say that Loki/Eris/Eddie Izzard wasn't just sitting around bored and thought, "Hey, those guys look like they're having fun. I think I'll fuck with 'em a bit."
It's something I'd do, after all. And have, thanks to the makers of 'Black & White.'
Atta prayed a lot.
Idiot.
<@KeithInc. > #192603
I wonder, to this day, if Bush intentionally ignored the intel, to let it happen so he could have his Iraq wsr
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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