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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:03 AM
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Praying Preachers Ground Flight
Two preachers grounded a flight leaving Buffalo, New York, after they frightened passengers by declaring the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a good reason to pray, officials said on Thursday.
One preacher told fellow passengers as the Continental Airlines plane taxied down the runway, "Your last breath on earth is the first one in heaven as long as you are born again and have Jesus in your heart," according to FBI spokesman Paul Moskal.

Passengers on the Wednesday flight to Newark, New Jersey told a flight attendant, who alerted the plane's captain, officials said. The captain turned the plane around.

"They were sincere in their beliefs and were not malicious," Moskal said by telephone from Buffalo. "In the context of 9/11 it may not have been the best way to promote their religion."

The two Pentecostal ministers, Canadian nationals Yohan Heenatigala and Komal Singh, were questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and later released and put on another flight, the spokesman said. They were traveling to attend a convention in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Stew225 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:23 AM
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1. You know, I just always thought that prayer could be
silent. It's like the clowns in restaurants that make a display. Maybe a little showy?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:32 AM
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3. Welcome, Stew. Yeah, I think some Christians'
Edited on Fri May-28-04 07:40 AM by GreenPartyVoter
Bibles are missing this verse:

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." Matthew 6:5

Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:31 AM
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2. Lucky for them they weren't Muslim
they'd be on their way to Gitmo or some undisclosed location instead.

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:33 AM
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4. Yep :^(
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Gasolinedream Donating Member (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:37 AM
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5. Some friends...
or former friends got into Assembly of God Pentecostal church and went all wacko on us. We don't talk anymore and about 95% of it had to do with their newfound religious beliefs and how they started judging us. They are a scary group of people.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-04 07:39 AM
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6. Even my in-laws, who are very devout and consrvative Nazarenes
have trouble with how strict Pentecostals are.
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