California Pastor’s ‘Death Prayer’ Campaign
16 February 2008 by Stardust
Vjack at Atheist Revolution has written a post bringing attention to this latest news story about controversial Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake urging his followers to pray for the deaths of staff members at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This isn’t the first time this radical Xian has been calling on his “heavenly hit man” (as Americans United executive director Rev. Barry W. Lynn put it).
Last August, Americans United filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service about Drake’s use of church letterhead and a church-based radio program to endorse presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Federal tax law forbids tax-exempt groups from endorsing or opposing candidates for public office.
In a Feb. 5 letter, the IRS notified Drake that his First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park is being investigated.
In response, Drake issued a Feb. 14 e-mail appeal to followers to engage in “imprecatory prayers” (curses) against Americans United and three of its staff members.
In agreement with Barry Lynn, “There is more than a whiff of the Taliban in this action”
16 February 2008, on 6:31 pm
I will start off this thread by saying FUCK HUCK and his fucktard American Taliban supporters!
16 February 2008, on 6:39 pm
^^^There you go Star, further devolving America with your heathen atheistic obscenities. As soon as we have a National Christian Church, the entire nation will be locked in imprecatory prayer, and you, Yes YOU! will be on the list!!!
Oh, and FUCK HUCK!
I’s jes jealous that ya beat me to it!
16 February 2008, on 8:25 pm
Can we dub these folks; “HUCKTARDs” or “MENTAL DAMS”?
16 February 2008, on 9:43 pm
Oh no, they are going to pray for evil things to happen to Americans United. While they’re at it why don’t they stick pins in a voodoo doll and sacrifice a goat because I’m sure they will be as equally effective.
Granted, while their prayers are harmless, this certainly does expose them as the “caring, loving, compassionate” Christians they surely are. Maybe if Fuckabee gets elected he can use the power of prayer to bring Osama to justice and solve all the problems in the Middle East? Oh yeah, that’s right, the power of prayer is only good for fleecing people out of their money, not actually doing anything useful. My mistake.
16 February 2008, on 9:46 pm
Granted, while their prayers are harmless, this certainly does expose them as the “caring, loving, compassionate” Christians they surely are.
Prayers aren’t so harmless if it leads to hallucinations and hearing the voice of gawd telling them to go off people for their evil ways. Just never know what kook will hear voices and go beserk.
16 February 2008, on 11:17 pm
At that level they make no effort to disguise their Christian hatred. They thrive on it. They’re proud of it. They feel “saved” by it.
17 February 2008, on 8:40 am
Definitely need to chime in with a “FUCK HUCK!”
Other than that, this doesn’t surprise me. One of the christards I work with had a prayer list going on at his church with the goal that our boss would lose his job so that dumbass the wonder moron could get it. How they justify this is beyond me…
17 February 2008, on 10:39 am
Given the recent studies that demonstrate the efficacy of intercessory prayer, I think the staffers would almost welcome them.
17 February 2008, on 12:11 pm
O/T – About the “Suffer the little children” post that was above this one…
Since it was proven to be merely a stunt, we have been receiving some emails that the post should be removed because as MS commented,
“I’m all for depicting the horrors of the Sharia regime, but if it has been shown to be fake then, in all honesty, I’d rather this post was removed. It still makes people freak when they first see it.”
I agree. I will be doing more thorough research in the future, which I usually do, but got sucked into the scam with that one. My apologies to everyone.
Now on with the discussion about the ‘Death Prayer’ Campaign.
17 February 2008, on 12:20 pm
a bunch of superstitious people are praying? who cares? its laughable.
pray in one hand and shit in the other…tell me which one fills up first.
17 February 2008, on 1:31 pm
What? These fine christians do not want to testify for the members of Americans United in order to save them? They rather that they were murdered by their big sky daddy and have their souls roast in hell. Kind of goes against one of the basic tenants of their faith.
17 February 2008, on 1:39 pm
Granted this incident does expose the brutal and spiteful nature of Fundamentalist religious delusions, but at least the good folks who are being targeted run no risk whatsoever of the prayer causing them any harm. They are much more likely to have a Boeing 747 fall on their heads than be harmed by prayer. Better if none of these happen though.
Someday science may better understand the links between insanity and religious obsession. I wonder, if there was a cure for Fundamentalism, how many would sign up for it?
17 February 2008, on 2:56 pm
Yeah…aren’t Christian sheeple soooOO lovable?
*snip*
“In light of the recent attack from the ememies (sic) of God I ask the children of God to go into action with Imprecatory Prayer,” Drake said, in an Aug. 14 press statement issued from the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. “Especially against Americans United for Seperation (sic) of Church and State.”
Hmmm…nice spelling, too…
Isn’t it really ImPRICKatory Prayer…you know…to the Great Invisible (and non-existent) “Sky-Prick”; who’s fucked everyone and everything through time immemorial?
Well…at least since the desert heat, brain fried…magic mushroom chomping…Abrahamic delusionals dreamed him up!
Yeah…What Fuckheads!
17 February 2008, on 3:36 pm
It would be easy and tempting to write this off and simply say “Who cares.” I’m not worried that the prayers might work; I’m worried about what they reveal about the mind set of those praying. How long will it be before they decide to help their god in smiting some nonbelievers?
17 February 2008, on 6:05 pm
I’m not worried that the prayers might work; I’m worried about what they reveal about the mind set of those praying. How long will it be before they decide to help their god in smiting some nonbelievers?
vjack, that is exactly what I was trying to say in comment #5. In my experience with god believers, when their god genie fails to grant their wish, many default to “god helps those who help themselves”…they then say that god is telling them to do “his will.”
17 February 2008, on 8:44 pm
Stardust:
It never ceases to cause me wonderment that the same folks who prate endlessly about an omnipotent Skyboss then feel as if they have to help him out because of the backlog of the damned. What part of “omnipotent” don’t they get?
17 February 2008, on 9:18 pm
Oh no, they’re praying for the death of their enemies? Oh no *shaking in fear.* Tell you what, guys; I’ll even step on every crack I see today, just to save you the trouble of praying for the breaking of my mother’s back.
Imprecatory prayer–an old family recipe and favorite at red states gatherings; mix equal parts “christian love” and retarded in a large megachurch, blend till frothy at the mouth and bake in threats of hellfire for two thousand years. Feeds millions of idiots.
Go ahead, let these asshats pray in one hand and shit in the other, watching closely to see which palm fills up first. In the mean time, hopefully Barry Lynn will prove his point and this mental “lollipop guild” will get it’s due and lose it’s undeserved tax exempt status.
17 February 2008, on 9:21 pm
Oh yeah, and “Fuck McCain.”
Lets face it, Huck doesn’t stand a chance. I think he blew it with the whole “Changing the Constitution to suit God’s unchanging law.” He scared a lot of people off with that, and that makes me feel optimistic for our nation!