Are Prayers are Better than Money for Victims of Disaster? Why of Course!
While everyone was cheering the death of Osama bin Laden, the south was hit with deadly tornados and the mid west Mississippi was flooded. Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.), Stevan Pearce (R-N.M.), Doug Lamborn [R-CO5] and Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) are co-sponsoring and seeking additional sponsorship for H. Res 254, a straightforward measure encouraging Congress and the American public to pray for the victims of the recent disasters in the United States.
The liberal media is up in arms over the resolution because it represents a belt tightening constraint to big government spending to rebuild roads and infrastructure that cannot be handled by the state. The bill has been introduced to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the second step before being reported and released for a vote.
This legislation brings up some very important questions.
Are prayers better than money for victims of disaster?
One goal or benefit of praying on a daily basis and in hard times is that it will have an impact on your faith. Scripture says that prayer is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. So prayer coupled with faith can actually bring unseen things to the seen realm.
Prayer can impact the lives of those affected by disaster. Prayer can be a corporate experience as well as an individual experience, thus giving community strength. Prayer is one way that we can communicate with God. God can hear and answer all prayers.
Jesus taught his disciples the importance of prayer. They were to pray and faint not. They were also to pray daily to the Father to have their needs met.
But is it Really Better than Money?
Prayer campaigns can have an impact on the devotional contributions of others, combined with bake sales and maybe a boot drive, communities struck with tornados and flooding can raise money rather than stealing from other parts of the country where God pays attention to prayers and isn’t testing their faith.
If we start thinking a big government as a problem solving deity, we are breaking the First Commandment of God. Prayers and God can help these people, accepting a government handout when an act of God occurs is simply accepting the pains and fires of Hell.
Money would lead victims to believe that victims are entitled to help and begin to forget to pray. Jesus taught his disciples the importance of prayer. They were to pray and faint not. They were also to pray daily to the Father to have their needs met, not cry for the Godless gruel offered by government to repair infrastructure or build ultra fast railways.
But Could Money be an Answer to Victims’ Prayers?
No, money is never an answer to prayers, especially disaster victims’ prayers. Through the process of struggle and rebuilding, those hit by these disasters will build something more important, American character and a love for the Lord.
To review the status of this bill, see http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hr112-254 and weigh with your congressional leaders to let them know that tax breaks for the rich, which will provide much needed jobs, and oil subsidies for the highest earning corporations is much more important than rebuilding infrastructure.
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10:37 pm
Yes, because people don’t need money to buy food, clothing, shelter, or to pay for medical expenses, taxes, and bills. All we need are prayers! Prayers will most definitely put food on the table, or clothe us and protect us from the cold, or put a roof over our heads, or cure us!
Give me a fucking break. You’re always going on about how ‘the poor people are terrible’ and how ‘they’re ruining the country’, yet you tell people that all they need are prayers, especially in times of disaster? Don’t want to spend a penny on relief efforts, do you? Twisted bitch.
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10:52 pm
Faith in Jesus Christ is all we need.
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3:19 am
Man can’t live by bread alone.
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10:58 pm
Okay bitch, then when a flood washes away all of your possessions and ruins your home, don’t expect any money from anybody.
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11:01 pm
Of course she will, she thinks she’s the exception. That, or she believes God wouldn’t flood her. Because the idea that nature has a cruel sense of humor wouldn’t come across her. She’ll blame the gays or something, they all do it.
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11:03 pm
She’s such a whore. Rumor has it that her vagina could be used as one of the Death Star’s hangar bays.
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11:04 pm
She’s taken quite a few super star destroyers into her murky depths.
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11:06 pm
Dear God, Claire, you homolez fantasies are reaching a new crescendo! All of us here at Christwire pray for you to find your way back to the Lord.
Bless.
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11:07 pm
I heard that she started out with a ping pong ball when she was 18, moved up to a baseball at 19, a softball at 20, and by age 22 had managed to fit a bowling ball in her vagina.
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11:09 pm
“All of us here at Christwire pray for you to find your way back to the Lord.”
Back to the lord? What, you think I’ve been with the “lord” in the past or something?
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11:33 pm
You were born into a family of militant satanists ?.
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1:03 am
Nah just a family with enough brains to realize that believing in the boogeyman (God) is ridiculous. You were obviously not so lucky and the brain damage received from incestuous relationships of your parents is really quite obvious.
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11:10 pm
Claire,
I purchased a lovely Wedding gift for you and Danus. I wish you nothing but peace and love in your new life.
Kind regards,
BB
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11:13 pm
Bitcham, is it true that you can swallow an entire pvc pipe?
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11:19 pm
Claire, this is such a vulgar and shameful display for a good Christian women such as yourself. Sister Blanche has purchased us a lovely wedding present and you go off and try to disparage her good name. I’m sure she will forgive you before the wedding due to her strong Christian values.
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11:27 pm
I’m not a Christian, nor am I more than one womAn. Now kindly shove off, misogynist.
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11:39 pm
How am I being a misogynist? Simply due to the fact that I believe in good, Christian family values? I don’t believe that makes me a misogynist. A misogynist would not have agreed to let you continue your “education” at that Trade School, I can assure you of that, and I have agreed to allow that decision to be left up to you.
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11:41 pm
While we evangelicals don’t believe in canonizing saints, I really think Brother Danus needs to be considered.
Brother Bruce, your patience and grace with that wildcat are faith in action.
Praise and thanks to you!
BB
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12:05 am
Thank you, Sister Blanche. It has been a trying courtship, to say the least. God has told me that this is the path he has chosen for myself and Claire though, so I will follow through and after we are married, God has promised that with a little more work and some determination, Claire’s soul will be saved. I am honored to have you on our guest list for the Holy Union as well.
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1:05 am
Fuck off. You are a dangerous individual and I hope you die before you infect the minds of another generation. By the way, I heard you can fit two of those PVC pipes in your ass. Would you like to confirm that?
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1:08 am
I heard you once fit an entire bottle of Jack Daniels in your rectum. (Thats your bum, dumbass) You are possibly the most pathetic man I have ever crossed paths with. You can take that pink shirt and shove it where the sun don’t shine my good man.
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1:26 am
First, FormerChristian (if that is your real name), I am not affiliated with the homogays, so nothing will be “shoved where the sun don’t shine”. Secondly, Jack Daniel was a great Christian man, if you read the Jack Daniel’s website, he made his whiskey for bible study use where men of faith were able to congregate and drink of the spirits and study The Holy Spirit. These were the original “Gentleman’s Clubs”, that name has since been spoiled by the homogay/lesbionic agenda and the “Gentleman’s Clubs” now are dens of sin and ill-repute. I accidentally wandered into one of these Sin Festivals thinking, as any good Christian male would, that it would be an uplifting night of stories from church or about how the wife burnt a pot roast, but instead I was assaulted with full frontal the likes of which I hadn’t seen since my parents accidentally rented “Showgirls” boxed in a “Lion King” box. I left feeling as though I had been raped by that women on stage and her magnificent baby feeders. I left with the knowledge that at least after a sin filled night, she would be able to go home and feed her child (very well, I believe)
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6:03 am
So God has finally shut the mouth of peeple like “FormerChristian”. Thank Jesus for stopping the inane crap spewing for his mouth. Nobody here appreciated it, so now that it is gone, we are even happier.
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11:26 pm
I’ll bet I know what wedding presents your husband received:
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2:00 am
I got them a print your own diploma kit. It should save them lots of money and be worth more than her finishing where she is at.
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3:02 am
Thank you Brother August. Maybe when we print that “diploma” for her, she will finally start the good Christian renewal of her soul. I pray every night for her to understand that this is not a “forced mariage”, but one that God ordained.
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3:24 am
The Lord has told me that Claire will come to love him, the ChristWire fellowship and other females like her that thought being a lesbian and owning 300 cats was a good idea. Thankfully, we caught Claire early enough to teach her Christian values.
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10:49 am
I’m not a lesbian, I never have been, and I have a total of two(2) cats.
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10:56 am
You people are fucking sick. Do you pull the legs off of insects when you’re not on here?
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2:11 am
Excellent work on the article BB. Sorry it took so long to comment, but we organized a late night letter writing campaign to support this Godly legislation. If it passes our nation will truly rise above the others as it was intended during the reign of our clean non-threatening looking founding fathers.
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3:45 am
When we talk about helping victims of disasters, we speak of noble deeds such as offering prayers and hope. But then along came these militant satanists who defiled these hallowed pages, offering homosexual advances and foul language in place of our altruism.
And we’re supposed to believe that the Godless heathens have more sense and compassion than us?? Bah!
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6:25 am
Rev. Custer, will you be back from the “dark continent” in time to preside over Claire and my wedding? If not, I understand. Stephenson Billings is an ordained Pastor, and can help Claire and myslef move in to the realm of marital bliss. I appreciate you Rev. Custer, but understand that you have to witness to the “darkies”, and I appreciate you for that.
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12:57 pm
Unfortunately Brother Bruce, I may not be available anytime soon. There are still millions of souls left to be saved over here in this savage continent, there’s still a lot of work to be done. I hope you can pardon my unavailability, all in the name of doing God’s Work.
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11:04 am
“How am I being a misogynist? Simply due to the fact that I believe in good, Christian family values?”
You’ve stated that: “Firstly, A women may exit the kitchen to do laundry and clean the rest of the house.”
That is misogynistic and unacceptable to force a woman to do that in present day America.
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5:52 pm
I love you guys. Are you for real? Do you people exist? You all believe in God too, don’t you? Oh lordy!
THIS IS JUST SO HILARIOUS
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6:52 pm
Is this website real?
Are these articles satire?
I’m so confused.
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8:22 pm
Good question problem is a lot of people think like that but I can help you Bruce danus just see his family name remove the D and you will see is actually Satire at most
yet msot republican believe in a imperialist country tod estroy every freedom to everyone (inside and outside of their country )
Being pro capitalist They won’t help people who need it for them it’s communist
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9:31 pm
Prayers are words. While positive energy can have a good effect, it’s not going to pay for the rescue of many, many people. Your just an idiot.
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10:54 pm
The founding fathers built this country on faith, prayer, and manly fortitude. There were no socialist handouts or Satanic disaster relief. We must fight to restore our country to its Christian origins. Prayer in schools, prayer at work, and prayer before every sporting event.
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11:04 pm
The great and good lord of the mountain El Shaddai would not have rained down such vengeance if He didn’t have a good reason.
It is not for man to give money to undue what God has sent with his hammer and lightning bolts!
However, if anyone would like to send me a big bag of money I would be happy to put it in the church collection plate.
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