"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that:

"We have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word and called it pluralism.

"We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism.

"We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle.

"We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

"We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.

"We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

"We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

"We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

"We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.

"We have abused power and called it political savvy.

"We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

"We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

"And we have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

"Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

"In the name of your son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen."



I found this on the net and I think it is so true, what do you think.*





*if posted before I am sorry.

 

I think its crap.

How's that for a concise answer?

But lets discuss this in a civil manner anyhow...
Waxy

 

Well you are entitled to your own opinion, and yes it was an answer.

 

I appreciate it in the spirit in which it was intended, 98.

BTW - just keep in mind that it is in the Pig Pen.

Again, thanks. I need to see such as that from time to time.

 

Oh don't think that I didn't know what I was getting into when I posted it.

 

Carl on Slingblade, "Auwight, ten!"

Lock and Load!

 

I love that movie.

Waxy

 

Evidently I do it so well the pretty girls in our management association "made" me do it in our last skit - chin stuck out and all.

I think I got more laughs with the facial expressions than by voice.

 

where's my holy hand grenade?

What if God isn't a right-wing Republican?

Putting Dear Lord in front doesn't validate the agenda.

 

Neither does cussing when you hit your finger with a hammer…but it helps…now don’t it.

 

Right-on sinjin! I would prefer to think that God (if he/she/it exists) doesn't have any political agenda. I think humans do a fine job of messing up politically without God to justify our thinking!

 

"Brother Mainar,, Bring out the Holy Grenade of Antioch!!"

While I don't deny the truth embedded in most of the statements in that "prayer", I do however agree with Waxy, as usual, lol.

It's Crap!!

I would use a few more choice words,, but, ya know,,, this isn't a jobsite.

I have seem to moved away from using the "Lord's" name in swears upon the arrival of pain from when whatever tool I am using decides to have it's way with my skin (and hopefully not deeper ). So,, if that was indeed the last place that the Christian's God was in my life and that has passed from reality,, does that mean I have Completely left the Church's Realm? Or was this last act, in itself, a sin by the tenets of christianity? Then again, the fact that I was in pain and calling the "Lord's" name means I could be after solace or healing, not necessarily cursing him for the actual event. What about the times when it is the specific phrase "God D*** It!!" Is this calling for the wrath of the "Lord" to be unleased upon the tool? Now THAT would be something,,,,

Hit thumb with hammer,,,
Yell out "above mentioned phrase",,,,
Hammer explodes in fire, or gets washed away in a tidal wave, develops Severe wood rot and the handle falls apart while the head rusts to dust, or simply becomes a small pillar of salt.

These are things that keep my mind occupied as I try to impose my will over the ever-rebelling tools of my trade (truck included). This strain of thought, of course, leads to the final question about which religion is right. That would solve all of those prayers in one shot,,,,,, What would the world be like if there was only one religion, one answer to the ageless questions of Man that torment our deeper thoughts? Proven or not,, just one "Higher Power" that everyone agreed on and believed in, one set of rules, etc. Then all those things would be fixed,,, Right?

Somehow,,,,,,,,,,I Doubt It.



Sorry guys ,,,, one of "them" days >>

 

In the voice of John Wayne, "Awright, MISTER Gravy, tell us how you re-e-eally feel!"

 

You did leave at least one out...

"WE have prayed BY THE BILLIONS for world peace and harmony, and for what result?

 

Hit thumb with hammer,,,
Yell out "above mentioned phrase",,,,
Hammer explodes in fire, or gets washed away in a tidal wave, develops Severe wood rot and the handle falls apart while the head rusts to dust, or simply becomes a small pillar of salt.




I don't know about it exploding or any of that other stuff , but for some reason my hammers keep on disappearing. I alone am keeping the Estwing factory running.

But I say Amen to the Prayer at the beginning of this thread.