Christianists without irony OTD

[prog]

"Moses sez: FAIL."

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[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

my moms was making obama calls to new hampshire the other night, and she talked to a couple who told her that they aren't registered and never vote because they trust god to take care of it.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any civil way to respond to that that wouldn't sound like talking to a confused child.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

"Who do you think sent Obama?"

[mangosteen]

I'm reminded of the joke, to which the punchline is:
"I already sent a car, a boat, and a helicopter. What more did you want?"

Although, looking at it from another angle, is it a proxy for something else? Feeling powerless about elections in general?

[prog.livejournal.com]

Now the most correct response seems to be relaying that joke, prefacing it with "Let me tell you a parable..."

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

That's a good one. The more jokey and less parable one I also like is the minister praying to god to win the lottery so he can make needed repairs to the church and after 3 weeks of praying and not winning, he prays again and the heavens open up and light shines down as he hears a booming voice say...

"Meet me halfway - buy a TICKET!!!"

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I know a guy who's retirement plan is to find a winning lottery ticket. He argues that the odds of winning are almost equally close to zero whether or not he buys a ticket.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

Meh, we've already seen such people praying to gas pumps to lower fuel costs two months ago...

SURPRISE MUTHUFUKAS! God granted your wish by crashing the markets, thus, taking oil prices to their lowest in six years.

God: "Geeze, you folks are NEVER satisfied."

[prog.livejournal.com]

The enormous thing is, there isn't a story in the Bible that explicitly frowns upon idolizing gas pumps, whereas cattle effigies are rather another matter...