Praying. Yep. Driving that ol’ Demon-in-Chief outta the capitol. FFS, we are in so much trouble. Fascists are bad enough. 1% billionaire fascists worse. Religious fanatic fascism? Yeah, that’s gonna help. Be nice if these people could manage to work, and do something truly miraculous, like work for all people, rather than praying to their fictitious psychopath.
Two of the pastors who participated in the event, Dave Kistler of the North Carolina Pastors Network and Dale Walker of the Tennessee Pastors Network, discussed their experiences on the American Pastors Network’s “Stand in the Gap” radio program last Friday.
Kistler revealed that U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black preached to participants and reportedly prophesied that a revival is about to sweep America and “it will commence … in the halls of Congress” and Walker concurred.
“If God rules in the halls of legislation, it’s the pulpit’s benefit of being there, being on site and standing up and speaking the law of God to our elected leaders and praying for them,” Walker said. “It’s been the absence of the pulpits is the reason why Satan has ruled in the halls of legislation.”
Kistler also revealed that in addition to praying in the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Capitol, pastors were given access to the U.S. Senate chamber by Rep. Louie Gohmert. In the senate chamber, he said, “we got on our knees … and it sounded almost like a labor room as people were crying out to God for the revival that Chaplain Black believes is coming and that we believe is coming.”
“To do that in the Senate chamber was an absolutely astounding opportunity,” Kistler said, “and again it puts an exclamation point on the Senate chaplain’s assessment that revival is on the way and may indeed begin in the halls of Congress.”
All that showy bullshit, “oh look, I’m on my knees, fist on forehead!” “No, look at me, I’m bowed all the way down, with my head almost on the ground, but not like those other people do, no.” Why don’t these fanatical morons ever, just once, pay attention to their book of myths, where the sacrificed son of their psychopathic god specifically said not to pray in that manner?
Right Wing Watch has the full story.
“Stand in the Gap”
They should have named it “mind the gap”
Matthew 6:5
In today’s dead-tree edition of the International New York Times (formerly the IHT), Trump’s Threat to the Constitution:
Snopes on the statement from teh trum-prat: Yes, he said it, and the context suggests it wasn’t a simple error but a indicator of the nazi’s ignorance.
Oh, they’re praying.
I thought they were ‘budgeting’ (as inspired by a local parliamentary deputy, who fell asleep during the recent late-night budget sessions and fell victim to photoshoppers, as well as inspired people to post pictures of themselves hard at work).
Can’t really tell the difference, anyway.
PS -- legislators ought not be praying at all. They are (presumably) holding their jobs because of their wisdom and competence, to help lead. If their idea of leadership, wisdom and competence is to ask for divine intervention, they’re not the right people for the job.
I mean, we already knew that. But, fuck.