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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:06 AM
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My response to a god and flag and troops prayer chain email
My response is at the top. This came from a halo clan I belong to. I fully expect to be kicked out now.
:)

And dear lord, please also hold the iraqi people and soon the Iranian
people in the hollow of your hand, and protect them from naked wars
of aggression and preemptive attacks of dangerous dictators
masquerading as presidents.

amen.

On May 11, 2006, at 6:23 PM, xxxx wrote:

>> Subject: Fw: I'm proud to send this one!

>> Wow! This is the most awesome one I've seen, and with audio, I
>> really am proud to be an American and believe we're One Nation,
>> Under God!!!! Turn on your speakers!
>> <@>
>> <@><@>
>> <@>
>> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,
>> OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
>> AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS,
>> ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
>> INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY
>> AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
>> I was asked to send this on
>> if I agree or delete if I don't.
>> It is said that 86% of Americans
>> believe in God.
>> Therefore I have a very
>> hard time understanding
>> why there is such a problem
>> in having
>> "In God We Trust"
>> on our money and having
>> "God"
>> in the Pledge of Allegiance.
>> I AGREE !
>> <@>
>> PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING,
>> EVEN IF YOU HAVE PASSED IT ON BEFORE!!
>> Please send this on after a short
>> prayer!
>> <@>
>> Prayer wheel for our
>> Marines, soldiers, sailors,
>> coastguard, and airmen...
>> please don't break it
>> <@>
>> "Dear Heavenly Father,
>> hold our troops in your loving hands.
>> Protect them as they protect us.
>> Bless them and their families
>> for the selfless acts they perform
>> for us in our time of need.
>> Please stop a moment
>> and say a prayer for our troops
>> (land, air, and sea) in
>> Afghanistan, Kuwait,
>> Iraq and all around the world.
>> <@>
>> This can be very powerful.....
>> Just send this to people
>> in your address book.
>> Do not stop the wheel,
>> please...
>> Of all the gifts you could give our
>> U.S. Military,
>> Prayer is the very best one!
>> <@>
>> God will Love Ya for helping
>> Spread His Word..

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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:07 AM
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1. BRAVO!
:applause:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:08 AM
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2. Dear lord, please give young Republicans here at home
the courage to enlist, because we need more troops and we need fresh troops in Iraq.
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:13 AM
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3. Good job!
:applause:
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:14 AM
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4. Good response
Solid.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:15 AM
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5. Nice!
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:23 AM
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6. Reminds me of Twain's "War Prayer"
"You have heard your servant's prayer -- the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it -- that part which the pastor -- and also you in your hearts -- fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. the *whole* of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory--*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.


http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/warprayer.html
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:37 AM
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9. ...only shorter. :^)
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:32 AM
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7. excellent!!!
I envision a lot of liquid on keyboards soon! :rofl:
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:37 AM
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8. Question from an atheist:
What is a halo clan? :shrug:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:38 AM
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10. Heck, I'm a Xian and I have no idea.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:41 AM
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11. sorry, Halo is a Bungie/Microsoft online xbox and PC game.
a clan is a group of people that regularly play on a server.

I play it on a mac, though.

sorry for not explaining that.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:48 AM
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12. Okay, thanks.
:hi:

I'm kind of a techno moron.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:56 AM
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14. no, don't feel bad, after you asked the question I realized "halo" would
seem religion-related. Its not connected to religion at all, its a first person shooter with aliens and spaces ships and whatnot.

all the more reason I don't want to get fundie crap sent to me in their gang email, and I'm liberal christian.

But what got me was the part of the prayer that said "selfless" in terms of the soldiers. Tell that to the fallujah dead who were burned alive from the inside out with white phosphorous.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:48 AM
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13. Here's the new, reality-based pledge...
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,
>> OF THE FASCIST STATES OF AMERICA,
>> AND TO THE EMPIRE, FOR WHICH IT STANDS,
>> ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE,
>> BROKEN IN TWO, WITH LIBERTY
>> AND JUSTICE FOR NONE!
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 02:27 PM
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15. well, so far, no one has responded yet!
and the email was sent to over 25 people!

lol.

maybe my message was TOO powerful?

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