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oraxx's avatar

Conservative Christians never stop trying to mark their territory in the public square. I have no idea what she thought her prayer would accomplish. Aside from the psychological effects on the believer, prayer never affected the outcome of anything.

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Die Anyway's avatar

Oh oraxx, ye of little faith. When I was a kid I prayed to Santa for a pair of roller skates. Christmas morning, what was under the tree? A pair of roller skates! Proof positive that prayer works.

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cdbunch's avatar

Proof that Satan (Santa) answers prayers better than God.

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MalibuMan's avatar

"He sees you when your sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good"

Sounds like real omnipotence to me

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

And it sounds like a stalker to me.

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cdbunch's avatar

Potato Patayto.

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MalibuMan's avatar

Or a pedophile?

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Lynn James's avatar

That's restricted for the clergy. They get mad when outsiders try to move in their territory.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Good to see you again!

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Die Anyway's avatar

I'm still around but was spending too much time online. I've been helping my son-in-law at his business, doing some projects around the house, going fishing, and currently installing a lift kit on my van. Oh, and playing Pokemon Go 😊. And camping and biking with friends. Trying to keep up with the commentariat at FA was just more than I could handle. I'm glad to see that you are still around. Still in Florida? My wife and I know several people who are moving out of state because of the new laws.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

IOW you've been wasting time that could have been spent here. 😝

Still in St. Pete. If I could afford it, I would happily move to the PNW.

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Lynn James's avatar

It annoys people who have to listen to it.

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

A friend of mine used to say "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first." Could've just as easily said "Pray" as "Wish".

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NOGODZ20's avatar

CONDER: "We will not be silenced..."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Since when have Christians ever been silent about anything? Children being molested by clergy, maybe...

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Old Man Shadow's avatar

These assholes. It's not about tradition or religion, it's about dominance. They want you to know that they have the power and you can't stop them and they want to rub your faces in it.

A moment of silence is perfect to practice your faith and ask God quietly to be with you and the board members, but no. It doesn't scratch the supremacy itch these assholes have.

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MalibuMan's avatar

That's about the crux of the matter.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"It is time to invite God into our boardroom."

Uh, no. It is not. This is a civil, secular function. Your imaginary friend has no place in it. You live in the bible belt. Want to pray? I'm sure you can find a nice church where you can pray to your heart's content. Avail yourself of that church. At a meeting of the Berkeley County Board of Education? Just sit down and shut up about your godthing.

(BTW, "Invite God" into the boardroom? I thought your god was everywhere. And since when does an omnipotent deity require an invitation?)

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cdbunch's avatar

He's a vampire. That's why he wants you to drink his blood. Makes you a vampire too and you can suck the life out of any room.

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MalibuMan's avatar

People have their own version of Jesus or God in their heads not based on reason, evidence or even the Bible. It is simply based on what they think. And of course God is always on their side.

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Lynn James's avatar

For sure an omnipotent being doesn't need an invite. This is performance piety.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Since her puny god couldn't be bothered to show up and stop the Christian-run Holocaust against his Chosen People, I really don't think he has the slightest interest in this or any other board meeting.

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MalibuMan's avatar

He is either impotent or evil. Take your pick.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Why not both?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Never gets old.

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Lynn James's avatar

Where's the Hulk when you need him.....

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cdbunch's avatar

Trying to solve the mystery of time travel?

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

We already have, or we are doing it now, or we will do it. Damn!!! This gets confusing. 😵

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

Jews think of themselves as God’s “chosen people”. But look at the historical record. They’ve spent almost their entire existence in either captivity, exile, slavery, persecution, ghettoes, or death camps. I wonder how many of them ever wish that God had chosen some OTHER people instead.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I've posted the following before, but if you haven't seen it it's well worth a look...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7irFN2gdI

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MalibuMan's avatar

I recall the quote from Aldous Snow in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" to the newlywed that "God should be present in the bedroom".

Then when he was making love to his wife he blurts, "You have Christ between your thighs"

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

[chuckle] Phenomenal. If the school board isn't going to open their meetings with a prayer, this Karen (a.k.a. Ann Conder) is going to insist on it, because Christian!

Has anyone considered arresting her on the charge of, say, Disturbing the Peace or maybe Disruptive Behavior? I think she could stand to learn a lesson, said lesson involving a fine and maybe jail time?

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Tinker's avatar

Then she'd be 'persecuted' and Faux News would run stories on her for the next week.

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cdbunch's avatar

And then the goldfish would forget.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Why would they do that? They want to inject the Christian prayers, they just can’t do it officially. So, they’ll let this ex board member shout her prayer while punishing folks who ask her to stop.

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

There are many perfectly good insults you could've used that don't denigrate the many very nice women named Karen.

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Lynn James's avatar

Would love to see that happen, but it oh so seldom does.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒...

Oh, so you're into traditional and historical practices. Would that include slavery? Treating women as second-class citizens and denying them the vote? Beating children, as the bible recommends? Maybe you'd like to see the US abandon democracy in favor of a Christian theocracy and really rub it in the face of those who worked so diligently to found this country.

[sigh] People like this who can't think beyond their little fascinations and obsessions just astonish me.

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MalibuMan's avatar

Do the conservative supreme court judges care about precedent? They just wiped out abortion and they were looking at even mixed marriages and trying to ban gay marriage. They want total control, that's about it.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

alitosis did what your last point describe that means that's a good precedent, right ?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Not sure I get your point. MY point is that Ms. Conder is upset because blatant Christian representation is no longer an automatic part of those school board meetings, and she can't deal with that. I'm just wondering how far she wants to carry her obsession with Christian practice, as regards our government.

Something which, I have no doubt, she hasn't thought about AT ALL.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

alitosis using a quote from someone who lived before the founding of the USA in dobbs. The last part of my phrase was sarcasm.

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Boreal's avatar

“It is to invite God into our boardroom so that he will grant you righteous guidance as you make your decisions for our children and their education. We will not be silenced and we will continue to invite God into this boardroom,” Conder said at the comment podium.

Your 'god' is an impotent loser if it needs to be 'invited in", or a vampire. Choose one.

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Lynn James's avatar

*We will not be silenced and we will continue to invite God into this boardroom,” Conder said at the comment podium.*

Is she referring to herself in the plural? Who is the "we?" She's only one I see being an asshole.

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Len Koz's avatar

She was referring to herself and all the voices in her head.

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Lynn James's avatar

That explains a lot.

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cdbunch's avatar

I'm still wondering why I keep listening to the voice in my head. He hasn't been right in nearly 40 years. Of course if I hadn't listened to his constant refrain that it will all work out in the end, I'd have given up decades ago.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Well, God was asked to leave the school board meeting because he tends to interfere in learning. I mean, all his followers even tell us he doesn’t want us to seek knowledge, claims it causes people to get away from god.

I wonder why that is? Why does knowledge make people doubt god?

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MalibuMan's avatar

I submit a real god worth his/her salt doesn't need any human to do his/her bidding.

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Boreal's avatar

If it can't even show itself....

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MalibuMan's avatar

"It" doesn't exist except in the mind of believers.

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Boreal's avatar

Pardon the pun but you're preaching to the choir.

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Lynn James's avatar

Now that ain't so! Ah seen him in the movies. Sometimes he looks jus lahk George Burns. An' sometimes he looks jus lahk Morgan Freeman.

So there, you heathen!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Sometimes God looks like Alanis Morissette. :)

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MalibuMan's avatar

You live, you learn...

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cdbunch's avatar

Yeah, but she's not too bright. 5 Adams.

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Lynn James's avatar

Personally, I think he looks a lot like George Clooney. :) Or maybe George Clooney looks a lot like him. Or....I get confused sometimes. George can have that effect on me.

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cdbunch's avatar

Can we elect Morgan Freeman God? He seems to have his shit together.

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Lynn James's avatar

I'd vote for him.

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MalibuMan's avatar

Both of those versions are preferable to the biblical or Koranic one.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

The atheist was escorted out because she was persecuting the Christian. How long is this injustice going to continue. Christian’s are the most persecuted people in the world, dontcha know. This is just more violence against Christians.

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MalibuMan's avatar

We have only a few months before Fox news launches into the supposed war against Christmas.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Good. We can direct them to both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Cromwell in England. Christians who actually engaged in a war of that holiday.

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cdbunch's avatar

But atheists are fighting to get all those nativity scenes taken down. (all of them, not just the ones illegally on public property) There's your war on the "true meaning" of Christmas. It's right there in the name.

(I really should stop channeling RWNJ. What if my brain got stuck that way?)

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Lynn James's avatar

And don't make faces at people either! What if your face got stuck that way? ;-)

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

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cdbunch's avatar

It would likely be an improvement. :)

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S. Arch's avatar

What?! Christian nutjob trying to force her superstition on everyone else? And authorities allowing her to do it? I didn't see that coming. /s/

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

The sad fact is that anyone with a brain and a concern about state / church separation saw it coming ... and likely winced and thought, "Oh, crap, here we go again..."

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S. Arch's avatar

Yep. Hence my sarcasm.

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Susan's avatar

If God’s omnipresent, why does he need to be invited anywhere?

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MalibuMan's avatar

I often said, I think that the biggest evidence against God is that his existence has to be debated.

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ericc's avatar

Because he's not just omnipresent, he's omnipetulant too. If we don't extend an invite to every government meeting we hold, he flattens Kansas trailer parks with tornados.

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Boreal's avatar

The same reason he needs a starship?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Or soldiers.

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XJC's avatar

Because he's omni-impotent, too.

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MalibuMan's avatar

Interesting, an expendable god.

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NoOne of Consequence's avatar

Do I get a bonus when I expend a god? +wis, maybe? 😁

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MalibuMan's avatar

He will be the next member in the coming "Expendables" with Stallone.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Like the Klingon gods.

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Bagen Onuts's avatar

Post of the Week!

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Len Koz's avatar

He's like Dracula, he sucks?

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MalibuMan's avatar

"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

Oops.

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Lynn James's avatar

Performance piety. "Lookit me! Lookit me! And be awestruck by whut a goooooooooood krishchin ah am!"

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Like a puppy waiting to be patted on the head for being a good little doggie.

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cdbunch's avatar

The puppy is better at learning polite behavior.

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Len Koz's avatar

Like Heinlein's Jockaira.

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MalibuMan's avatar

Piety is not the lessons they bring to the people, it's the mistake they bring to the lesson.

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XJC's avatar

So...Jesus is saying, don't come out of the closet?

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

My favorite invocation: “The meeting will come to order. Let’s get to work.”

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cdbunch's avatar

But I don't wanna go to work.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Neither does the party of hard work and enterprise. Their attitude to that is on a par with their family values.

https://www.alternet.org/katie-hobbs-slams-arizona-lawmakers/?comments=disqus

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cdbunch's avatar

So I just need to be elected to a state legislature to get a paycheck and not have to work? Maybe it's time for a career change.

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Joe King's avatar

Someone needs to recite this in time with Conder's prayer:

Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R’amen.

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Bagen Onuts's avatar

i AM STERALING THIS. bEFORE i DO WILL UPVOTED TI, CUZ i GOT MANNERS AND SHIT. 8^)

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Feeling a bit gassy, I woulda let one rip in the middle of her prayer just to get the point across. You can’t prove it was me, you can’t eject me for involuntary bodily functions.

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jomicur's avatar

Of course they can. True christian bodies don't do that. They smell like roses and daffodils. No compost.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

What!?! My farts smell like flowers. The corpse flower, but still a flower.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Conder lips off yet again and it's the atheist who gets asked to leave? PERSECUTION!

Hey, if Christians can shout that word over nothing at all, we can shout it legitimately when something like this happens. Xtians think they're the only group being persecuted in the world? They're hardly alone. 13 nations on Earth have the death penalty just for being an atheist. All where religion is the dominant majority.

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Lynn James's avatar

Christian fucking privilege. That's what allows this religious Karen to throw her weight around be the jackass she wants to be in public...without consequences.

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XJC's avatar

She's throwing alot of weight around...makes Chris Christie look svelte by comparison.

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jomicur's avatar

"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods more obnoxious than me."

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