Pray for Ron Paul at the debate tonight! That's right, PRAY!

[mkrfctr]

Geez this is gonna end well...

Here, I was watching The War by Ken Burns Episode 3 of 7
They were discussing the Anzio campaign:

Narration: after one massive shelling one mess sergeant fell to his knees and began to pray

"God help us", he said.
"You come yourself. Don't send Jesus.
...
This is no place for children."


I thought that was rather quaint, amusing, and insightful. Thought I'd pass it on.

 

[werdd]

This is not a detracting / off-topic comment for you?

seriously stop heckling people that beleive, i personally don't know, but i dont make it a point to go about bashing beleivers. If you dont beleive and are close minded to other views, you are just as ignorant as he who beleives, and is close minded to your views.

 

[SpicyItalian739]

Start respecting each other people.

I'm a former Christian who became an Atheist on his own. If you are an Atheist bashing Christians, I think it is really you having trouble coming to grips that you probably were the same way as the people you need to put down. You likely resent that you thought the same way as them at one point. If you believe that you are right then let the religious people come to this on their own terms, without your snarky remarks.

If you are a Christian - do not bash the Atheists, for you should believe that it is up to them to come to God on their own. Either way it is NOBODY'S business to put people down for their beliefs. Enlightenment does not come from adherence to your position, it comes from willingness to CHANGE it in the face of better evidence.

As the hippies would say, "It's your journey man."

The entirety of Ron Paul's message is - live and let live.

Edit: PLEASE don't listen to the detractors my Christian friends - do pray for Dr. Paul - our cause needs all the help it can get!

 

[quickmike]

Its one thing for an atheist to joke about religion with a christian friend, but its entirely something else to directly attack their beliefs as "ridiculous".

Im not a believer, but what good does it do to tell somoene that believes in god that they are crazy for believing in it? Its just a difference in opinion after all, since neither side has any direct proof on the subject. All it does is put people on the defensive, which is exactly the opposite of what we need. Everyone here believes in RP right?

Isnt that good enough? If someone feels good praying for Ron Paul, hell, I say go for it. Whatever boosts your spirits and gets you going right?

 

[Lyn]

Will do!! I believe in the power of prayer.

As a side note Please read the first line of OP's message "I encourage everyone WHO IS A PERSON OF FAITH to pray for Ron Paul tonight." If this isn't your thing then leave the rest of us alone. Please.

 

[RP4ME]

I encourage everyone who is a person of faith to pray for Ron Paul tonight. To be blunt, Ron Paul is already a person with a great message! However, having GOD backing you up never hurts when you are trying to spread a message in a tough situation!

We need to pray that God will inspire him with the exact words he needs to say, give him courage, and a supernatural boost of energy!

Due to events in my life I KNOW FOR A FACT prayer actually works. God has blessed me in many ways in my life. I've had him answer prayers in ways that astounded me. I have faith that if we pray for God to bless Ron Paul tonight that AMAZING things will happen!!!

I think Ron Paul deserves our prayers. Will you pray for him?

I commit to prying fo rhim and YES God hears prayers.....

 

[wgadget]

Yep, I'll continue praying for Dr. Paul.

I have to say that my most recent experience with the power of prayer was a few weeks ago when I had to play about 25 minutes worth of Chopin piano music in front of a packed house of 2,750 people. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would fill me, taking away any nervousness I was feeling and helping me to do my best. Well, needless to say, I got on stage just as if I were performing with no audience, and it went extremely well.

I will be asking the same for Dr. Paul in his debate performance tonight.

 

[fluoridatedbrainsoup]

I'm Dionysian and I'll pray for Ron Paul before tonight's debate.

 

[thehittgirl]

If you don't pray...

Please speak for yourself. I am sure there have been many prayers going on.

Send good thoughts...which I know you guys do. Yes I will pray and I always pray for his safety too.

 

[DJ RP]

Nobody holds their beliefs thinking they are irrational, everybody thinks they are right. When you understand this you realise how ineffective insults are to getting people to change their mind.

Everybody is on their own journey.

That said, I'm an atheist and I think most people when given all the evidence and time to make an informed decision would likely lean that way. But you have to be exposed to all the views and that can only happen if you are open.

It's quite like what ron paul preaches, people who are open hungrily eat up the truth he speaks and it excites them, but some people resist and prefer the comfort of their extisting neocon beliefs....

that's the way I look at it anyway.

Pray if you want, it's your life, but I can think of plenty of other things to spend your time on that will help him a lot more.

Just my opinion.

 

[nunaem]

Can those of you who do not believe in a higher power, please go somewhere else?

Do you think you could manage to respect those of us who believe in God, as we have respected those of you who do not?

You must be kidding.

 

[Phil M]

I really think we don't need another religious debate here. Some people want to pray for Paul tonight. I personally think it's ridiculous, but I'm not going to stop anyone. So pray if you want to, don't pray if you don't want to. Not that complicated.

 

[wgadget]

Nobody holds their beliefs thinking they are irrational, everybody thinks they are right. When you understand this you realise how ineffective insults are to getting people to change their mind.

Everybody is on their own journey.

That said, I'm an atheist and I think most people when given all the evidence and time to make an informed decision would likely lean that way. But you have to be exposed to all the views and that can only happen if you are open.

It's quite like what ron paul preaches, people who are open hungrily eat up the truth he speaks and it excites them, but some people resist and prefer the comfort of their extisting neocon beliefs....

that's the way I look at it anyway.

Pray if you want, it's your life, but I can think of plenty of other things to spend your time on that will help him a lot more.

Just my opinion.

Okay...Pray for Dr. Paul while you are passing out slimjims today. How's that?

 

[LibertyEagle]

You must be kidding.

Nope. Apparently you don't believe that there should be freedom of religion. Dr. Paul has a large number of Christian supporters. Apparently, you are not one of them. That's fine. Whatever floats your boat. If I can advocate your right to believe what you want, or to believe in nothing at all, why are you having such a hard time, letting us do the same?

 

[goldstandard]

Maybe this helps, too (for the debate moderator):

 

[Roxi]

Im agnostic, but i do believe in the power of prayer... I believe energy comes from within, both positive and negative, people praying for something only lets out a positive energy no matter who they are praying to.

so yes, the agnostic says.. pray for ron paul, even if not praying TO a specific entity or god, you can still release some of that positive energy on the world

ridiculing people for the way they believe is completely ignorant and inappropriate

 

[nunaem]

Nope. Apparently you don't believe that there should be freedom of religion. Dr. Paul has a large number of Christian supporters. Apparently, you are not one of them. That's fine. Whatever floats your boat. If I can advocate your right to believe what you want, or to believe in nothing at all, why are you having such a hard time, letting us do the same?

Did you actually read what you said?

BTW I do believe in God AND the 1st Ammendment, which includes freedom of speech, lest you forget.

 

[literatim]

I will continue to pray for him.

 

[max]

For you folks who think we "evolved" from spontaneously and accidently formed oceanic scum, that sprouted fins after a few zillion years--swam onto the beach, grew legs - crawled up a tree - turned into apes - crawled down from the trees, then morphed in humans, (without leaving a trace of transitional fossil evidence for you to find) .....we respect your amusing Darwinist religious dogma....

Please respect that of others as well.

Philosophical Christian and Logical Deist

If no Creator...then goodness, liberty, and justice are just artifical meaningless concepts....Logic - not blind faith - points to the Creator. The evidence in written in his handiwork. Issac Newton, Plato, Jefferson, Franklin and all the greats believed in The Creator (perhaps not in the purest Biblical interpretation)...but clearly from an intellectual, logical, common sense, and scientific point of view.

 

[Shellshock1918]

Done.