Dear God, please stop the healthcare reform bill

December 19, 2009 • 1:02 pm

o.k., this is really scary.  Here are the reliably insane congresswoman Michele Bachmann and conservative activist Lou Engle, accompanied by a zany cast of chanting Republicans, praying at a Family Research Council “prayercast” aimed at stopping Obama’s healthcare bill.  And if, God help you, you want to watch a whole hour of people importuning God to stay Obama’s hand,  go here.

26 thoughts on “Dear God, please stop the healthcare reform bill”

  2. … You know, if/when the health care bill passes, does that finally prove that Obama/Congress/the voters are more powerful (or at least give more of a damn) than Michele Bachmann’s God?

    Probably not. If it passes, it’s clearly Satan/God testing His followers/etc. It doesn’t say anything about the existence or desires of God. It failing on the other hand, is a clear example of God’s Will.

    1. Perhaps it will be the evil libruls use of the horseless carriage, the modern “chariots of iron”?

      Judges 1:19: And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

  6. Hey, it’s all old hat to an ex-fundie like me.

    It’s very disturbing to see our national politicians doing this crap, but it’s no surprise. Religion makes people crazy.

    It’s just a form of “black magic” — trying to manipulate people by supernatural means. It doesn’t work, of course, but it is rude (and creepy).

  8. Wow … but when you think about it, it should give us all some hope (and we are often accused of lacking that), after all, in the end they merely ask god to do a minor felony: “Breaking and Entering” …

    See for contrast the kind of thing that goes on at Jerry’s lab:

  9. The health care reform is the first step to our country becoming a socialist nation. If you are too ignorant to realize the facts and that this bill is going to significantly hurt our economy than I’m sad that we have such idiots in our country.

    1. Umm. . . weren’t the first steps really Social Security and Medicare, two immensely popular and effective programs? Shades of Lenin!

      1. Wow, that must make South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Germany all evil socialist economies too, with their nasty universal health care.

    3. Hey sister Sara, are we going to be a bastion of socialism like France and the UK? Never mind that the single payer system made it nowhere.
      Oh, and no more people going bankrupt because of medical bills. Nothing could ruin the economy faster than that.
      Who needs facts when you’ve got the rhetoric?

    4. Reminds of The Life of Brian.

      “All right … all right … but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order … what HAVE the Romans government ever done for US?”

    5. than I’m sad that we have such idiots in our country.

      I hate it when people get ‘then’ and ‘than’ mixed up. But that’s my issue, and I’m trying to deal with it. Carry on.

  10. I support this. They should all just go sit in their special room and pray together while the rest of us try to get something done.

    1. The problem with that is that they are also planning some pretty serious crap in their prayer breakfasts.

  13. Maybe I blacked our during the video (too much cognitive dissonance), but where/when do they actually say they want to stop HC reform? The only thing I heard was that they were praying for guidance.

    1. I didn’t say it was in this particular segment. Watch the rest of the video (if you can stand it) for the more blatant prayers.

  14. Because nothing could be less the will of a mercyfull God than everyone getting health insurance!

  15. So when this doesn’t work, will they finally admit that prayer is nothing more then talking to themselves?

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