Praise Jesus Bring us rain!!! AMEN!

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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will call on a higher power.


"Christianity has more of a place in the culture here than in some other region," said Ray Van Neste, a professor of Christian studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. "And it's only natural, in a way, for the public to pray for rain."


Perdue won't be the first governor to hold a call for public prayer during the epic drought gripping the Southeast. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley issued a proclamation declaring a week in July as "Days of Prayer for Rain" to "humbly ask for His blessings and to hold us steady in times of difficulty."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/13/southern.drought.ap/index.html

umm it rained here pretty bad last night... Lady T did you have any rain last night?

Actually i think it just stopped raining here about a few hrs ago.

"Christianity has more of a place in the culture here than in some other region,"


maybe thats why its not raining...

holyrollers are so naive.... JESUS LET IT RAIN POR FAVOR.
 
I have a question. If god is responsible for rain and touchdowns why isn't he also responsible for the drought. Maybe he is trying to tell the good people of Georgia something.
 
Yeah and pagan chants I have done have prevented meteors from hitting my home.
That stuff really works !
 
This isn't the first time such idiocy has taken place. I think it was last year, the mayor of our fair burg got churches in the whole damn city to hold a special prayer for rain, as we were pretty dry and it's an agricultural area. Of course it didn't work. Then a couple of weeks or so later he tried to get them to pray that nobody would disagree with him. (!!!)

I tried once to point out to someone who apparently was sucked into the whole thing that if we hadn't had any rain for four months (we hadn't) then there was a good chance that "god" knew it. The illogic of the whole thing is mind-boggling.
 
Thorn said:
This isn't the first time such idiocy has taken place. I think it was last year, the mayor of our fair burg got churches in the whole damn city to hold a special prayer for rain, as we were pretty dry and it's an agricultural area. Of course it didn't work. Then a couple of weeks or so later he tried to get them to pray that nobody would disagree with him. (!!!)

I tried once to point out to someone who apparently was sucked into the whole thing that if we hadn't had any rain for four months (we hadn't) then there was a good chance that "god" knew it. The illogic of the whole thing is mind-boggling.
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It just boggles me that you would think that the bad things happening to you were not "caused by god" but that he is the reason you score touchdowns and hit homeruns and that by praying after an entire summer of drought all of the sudden he was going to make it better. AND when you do pray and nothing happens is it because God was not listening? Or did he just not care?
 
Socrtease said:
It just boggles me that you would think that the bad things happening to you were not "caused by god" but that he is the reason you score touchdowns and hit homeruns and that by praying after an entire summer of drought all of the sudden he was going to make it better. AND when you do pray and nothing happens is it because God was not listening? Or did he just not care?
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Or you were being punished for something, or you were supposed to understand suffering, or ... pick your own brand of circular logic and insert here: ...

I hope that you mean a sort of nonspecific "you" and not me personally! Hopefully my disdain for that sort of thinking came through in my post! ;)

Really I couldn't have said it better. BTW, have you travelled east along I-40 around Groom TX? You can't miss that horrendous, humongous (the word must have been coined for this thing) white cross erected by Zack Thomas' father. It makes the 18-wheelers you can sometimes see at its base look like Tonka toys. Apparently it now also sports a souvenir shop too. I have to leave the room when athletes make such displays after some achievement or other. If I were at all religious I would consider it extremely arrogant at best.
 
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