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The misleadingly-named organization known as the "Presidential Prayer Team" is soliciting comments from the public to this effect:

"Today, we'd like to start by asking you to tell us what you believe the issues and concerns are that you believe has the United States in critical condition as a Christian nation. We want to know what your concerns are, why they are important, and what is the biblical reference or response to your concern. We will then publish the top concerns as the major Vital Signs that we need to pray for and take a stand about in the days to come.

["what you believe the issues and concerns are that you believe..."--Yikes! Who wrote that awkward gibberish?]

Tell us what has the U.S. in critical condition as a Christian nation!

Send us your America's Vital Signs by email to VitalSigns@PresidentialPrayerTeam.org"

I, beternU, have sent in comments and they are provided immediately below for your information and edification. Others who might wish to advise this organization of the misguided nature of their ways should consider sending them your own comments. Those who continue to assert the Christian Nationist philosophy of Constitutional interpretation might wish to send them your own misguided encouragement.

Here is an equal opportunity for one and all to send views to the Presidential Prayer Team, which has no official connection with the office of the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of its Armed Forces, the Honorable Barack Hussein Obama. As additional information, here is snopes.com's entry on the topic of Presidential Prayer Team.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/prayer.asp

And now, as promised, my very own contribution to the defense of our Constitution against the onslought of the muddled and misinformed Christian Nationists. Ta - Da!!

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"1. Ways for you to speak out against what you see happening in the courts and in the nation's capitol."

The courts, it is widely argued by conservative and misguided interests, have interfered with the "rights of Christians to pray" in such places as the public school classrooms and at school-sponsored and school-directed activities. The public schools, as you should know, are an entity of GOVERNMENT. Officials of government have no business telling any child when to pray, where to pray, who to pray to, what to pray for--or whether to pray or not pray! The courts of this land have properly ruled that school prayers directed and controlled by school authorities violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The courts have in no way compromised the right of any student in any public school to pray directly and privately to his/her God, gods, tree stump or any other chosen object of devotion.

Right-wing zealots who object to the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning school prayer are an embarrassment to informed and intelligent Christians who respect the Constitution. Jesus Christ did not come to this world to establish a worldly kingdom (John 18:36). He did not die upon the cross to purchase the United States of America, but rather to purchase His "church, which is His body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" (Ephesians 1: 22 & 23).

By securing this nation against the encroachment of the state into the affairs of religion, the Constitution's separation of church and state (yeah, yeah, I know that wording is not in the Constitution, but the principle most decidedly is!), has enabled freedom of religion to flourish in this nation as no other. Those who would seek to restore to public school authorities the prerogative to control the prayers of your child or mine are enemies of this freedom and ought to repent of that folly.

This is probably not the kind of response you covet, but it is what you need!>>>>
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Hi Beter,

While I fully believe we should all be praying for our nation and our leaders; I have been turned off from day one with the Presidential Prayer Team. This started back early in the Bush administration.

From the very beginning, I had the feeling that they were more interested in selling products that promoted the Presidential Prayer Team -- than in really praying for the president, Our leaders, and our nation.

Sure they encourage the prayer -- as a footnote to Items For Sale!

I tuned them out soon after they began.

Regarding Snopes.Com: The couple who run this are Super Obama Supporters -- so, you will not see anything negative or even slightly truthful about Obama on Snopes.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

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Bill, I have often seen these kinds of accusations against snopes.com, but I have yet to see anyone come up with one single piece of evidence to show that snopes.com is anything less than impartial. I suspect that snopes is so good at what they do that the hordes of Obama haters simply resent the way snopes is able to set the record straight on the heavy tonnage of lies and distortions propagated about him and his administration in the myriads of viral e-mails circulated by legions of Obama-hating right wingnuts.

Snopes documents and verifies what it reports and puts it out for all the world to see. They have a powerful incentive to get their facts straight, unlike those who ananymously pump out lies and distortions and those who assist such scum by propagating their lying e-mail drivel through community after community of internet users.

Here is an example. Read how snopes eats lying weasel Glenn Beck's lunch big time!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/braziloil.asp
Hi Beter,

For years I have been using Snopes; but, I did catch them in a bit of pro-Obama spinning during the elections. I can't recall the exact item; but, it clearly was a "That's our guy; don't say that about him" type situation. It was very obvious they leaned very much toward Obama and were, not truly objective when it came to him.

And, I have heard this from a number of people who have caught them in pro-Obama spinning.

I trust Snopes most of the time -- but, not when it comes to Obama.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

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Obamas Prayer Team? are they from Chicago, I talk to God about our Country and I will bet you my Prayer gets as high if not higher than theirs, will God not hear one Person just as readily as a Prayer team? I don't need them to do my Praying, I have a quiet place to talk to God and that is the way it says to talk to him.

Matt 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Hi Albert,

Actually, the Presidential Prayer Team began early in George Bush's administration -- shortly after 9-11. The idea was a good idea -- but, they tried to commercialize it by trying to sell everything under the sun -- just to make money. Initially, I joined. But, when the "Buy this new product" efforts began -- I dropped out.

As you said, we do not need this "Team" to be able to pray for our country and its leaders. We should all be doing this anyway.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

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Originally posted by prince albert:
Obamas Prayer Team? are they from Chicago, I talk to God about our Country and I will bet you my Prayer gets as high if not higher than theirs, will God not hear one Person just as readily as a Prayer team? I don't need them to do my Praying, I have a quiet place to talk to God and that is the way it says to talk to him.

Matt 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.


Alberto--

The so-called Presidential Prayer Team is the creation of some right wing ideologues and has no official connection with the Obama administration. It is misleadingly named and that is why you seem to have incorrectly concluded that it has connections with the White House. Read the snopes.com link I posted in the first entry in this thread and you will see what I mean by this.

If you enjoy knee-jerk right wing propaganda, you should subscribe to the Presidential Prayer Team newsletter. You will get plenty of that from them.

No charge for all this good information and advice.

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