Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation, from an email I received.


'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 reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. 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 politics. 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. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and Set us free. Amen!'

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we,
once again, can be called 'One Nation Under God!'

I would be surprised, and impressed, if that's genuine.

BS AGAIN

http://www.snopes.com/polit...box/prayernation.asp

It may be BS as to who actually said it but it has the sound of thruth to it.

quote Originally posted by avengador1: It may be BS as to who actually said it but it has the sound of thruth to it.

.......... seriously?

quote Originally posted by avengador1: It may be BS as to who actually said it but it has the sound of thruth to it.

Sounds like THRUTH to me. You do know that he's a preacher don't you?

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quote Originally posted by avengador1: It may be BS as to who actually said it but it has the sound of thruth to it.

You post a picture like that after lying to us about the author of your little prayer?

George Orwell supposedly never even said that.

quote Originally posted by avengador1: It may be BS as to who actually said it but it has the sound of thruth to it.

The sound of truth, yeah that should be good enough for everyone here.

quote Originally posted by Wichita: George Orwell supposedly never even said that.

I re-read the book just recently, and I don't remember that quote from the book.
But it does fit the theme of the book rather well.

quote Originally posted by avengador1: Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation, from an email I received. 'Heavenly Father, We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and Set us free. Amen!' With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we, once again, can be called 'One Nation Under God!'

Seriously? I thought the Lord's prayer had a different tone to it? I wonder what Matthew 6:9-11 says? All of the so-called TV preachers live "high on the hog" beyond the likeness of of many kings-past and present. They live at the right hand of them and mass great wealth.

quote Seriously? I thought the Lord's prayer had a different tone to it?

That's funny! This obviously is not the Lord's prayer. The messenger is not what is important, it's the message itself.

quote Originally posted by avengador1: That's funny! This obviously is not the Lord's prayer. The messenger is not what is important, it's the message itself.

I think WHO said it IS importent.
Would it still be ONLY the message that was importent if it was said by:

1. Hitler
2. Dahmer
3. Warren Jeffs

This was (falsely?) attributed to a (trustworthy?) name to give it a (seemingly?) legitmatcy.
Is there a time when the lie trumps the message?

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I highly doubt the message could ever be attributed to the people Boonie named.
As for the second half of the quote above: http://www.brainyquote.com/...g/george_orwell.html
http://thinkexist.com/quota...ling_the/193642.html
http://www.ayrshirecapital....-a-revolutionary-act
From the third link.

quote A few weeks ago while in a diner I overhead a comment from a local politician that captured the essence of George Orwell’s quotation. The official said quietly to another person that the donor base supporting his political party was comprised of “artists and eccentrics who were fragile” and could not handle being told “what needed to be done” to fix the town’s fiscal issues. He was afraid the donors would stop supporting his party if the truth were told. I wonder how many similar conversations are occurring around the world right now! The world is suffering from feeble leadership. This has become unavoidably apparent over the last six months as a nascent economic recovery has been squashed by the weight of uncertainty and indecisiveness.

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quote Originally posted by avengador1: I highly doubt the message could ever be attributed to the people Boonie named. As for the second half of the quote above: http://www.brainyquote.com/...g/george_orwell.html http://thinkexist.com/quota...ling_the/193642.html http://www.ayrshirecapital....-a-revolutionary-act From the third link.

So you'll take the time to check the quote... but NOT the Billy Graham "quote" before sharing it with an entire forum?

quote Originally posted by theBDub So you'll take the time to check the quote... but NOT the Billy Graham "quote" before sharing it with an entire forum?

Ahem!...Did you read the first sentence? Here it is, so you don't have to go through the trouble of finding it.

quote Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation, from an email I received.

It's an email that is being passed around! Any reasonably intelligent person will know what that implies. It also seems we don't have too many of those here, and that's the truth!

quote Originally posted by avengador1: It's an email that is being passed around! Any reasonably intelligent person will know what that implies.

Implies?
I don't get it.

It's sez it is "Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation".
Why not just say "A Prayer For Our Nation"?

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person.
Anyway, it's a good prayer.

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quote Originally posted by avengador1: It's an email that is being passed around! Any reasonably intelligent person will know what that implies. It also seems we don't have too many of those here, and that's the truth!

I didn't ask what you did. I asked why you wouldn't check the quote before sharing it, as you obviously know how to.

quote Originally posted by theBDub: So you'll take the time to check the quote... but NOT the Billy Graham "quote" before sharing it with an entire forum?