Georgia Governor leads "Pray for Rain" session; protestors kept away

from Atlanta Journal-Constitution:


UPDATED: 8:53 p.m. November 13, 2007
Perdue asks crowd to 'pray up a storm'
Drought is message from God to conserve better, governor says

By JAMES SALZER, JIM GALLOWAY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 11/13/07

Gov. Sonny Perdue wasn't the least bit discouraged Tuesday after his hourlong state Capitol prayer vigil for rain ended with the sun shining through what had been a somewhat cloudy morning.

"God can make it rain tomorrow, he can make it rain next week or next month," Perdue told reporters who asked him if a miracle was on the way.

More than 250 faithful Georgians joined Perdue outside the Capitol to ask for divine intervention to end the historic drought.

"We come here very reverently and respectfully to pray up a storm," Perdue told those in attendance.

About a dozen TV cameras representing local and national stations and more than a dozen print reporters and photographers captured the ceremony. At one point a TV helicopter threatened to drown out much of the sound.

The Rev. Gil Watson, pastor of Northside United Methodist Church, urged those in attendance to "pray believing we should have all brought umbrellas.

"We have not been good stewards of our land. We have not been good stewards of our water," he said. "Lord, have mercy on your people, have mercy on us and grant us rain. Oh God, let rain fall on this land of Georgia."

...(snip)...

Twenty-two protesters were forced to stay more than a block away, out of earshot and out of sight of the prayer service, on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. They were members of the Atlanta Freethought Society. Signs include "Hail Priest-King Perdue" or "Pray on the Church Steps, not the Capitol Steps." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/11/13/rainprayer_1114.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

This is why religion should stay out of politics.

((Rain)) ((RAIN))....Where are them Clouds???

for the day before a possible 40%chance of rain..so either way he "wins"

it rains? Thank you Jaysussss

It doesn't? Those damned scientist at the weather place don't know what the hell they're doing

Perdue Prays for Rain
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/new_story.aspx?storyid=39707

June 13, 2007
By: Evan Pinsonnault

~snip~

As Georgia's drought continues, Gov. Sonny Perdue and close to 300 people appealed to a higher authority for help Monday.

Perdue, State Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin, some Central Georgia farmers and others gathered at the Georgia Farm Bureau headquarters in Macon to pray for rain.

According to the governor and many farmers who attended, the drought of '07 has hurt the state's farming industry.

The lack of rainfall has delayed the planting of many essential Georgia crops, like peanuts and cotton.

Perdue says faith is what will lead the state out of the drought crisis.

Sonny the Dummy ...... oy

i mean all those those politicians flout their religious beliefs on their sleeves everyday, but this is the equivilent of bending over and kissing your ass because you are in deep s&*$.

God can do anything, right?

Oh, re-e-e-eally?

:hi:

J/K

but there haven't been any sightings lately.

:rofl:

....if you want rain.

What kind of fucking moronic shit is begging?

There's no rain in the forecast for the next 5 days either! Sorry to break this to ya Sonny, but you really better come up with a better plan!

on Wednesday. Methinks, Perdu and friends, checked the forecast before scheduling their prayer sessions.

what was the context? brave people praying for rain to our benevolant god? or ignorant idiots who should spend the time doing something productive like drilling for water.

...Mr. Governor, you ridicule the people who think we should protect the mussels in Florida which, by the way, were also my creation so that some asshole in Atlanta can have a nice beautiful green lawn. And also, can't you see I have a lot on my plate? So, I say let this drought continue on a bit longer and don't you ever waste my time with this nonsense again.

The gullible will believe it is divine intervention when it does...the sane will know it was just a matter of time.
So pretty much unless there were storm clouds forming out of a clear blue sky whilst he was pontificating and proselytizing...it wasn't prayer that did it.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

otherwise known as "Fudd, the Gweat and Tewwible Wizard" - as an afterthought, I was being thankful that I moved out of Georgia before this cretin was elected Governor (twice!), but then I remembered that I moved to Mississippi. Haley Barbour is even more absurd, and he, too, was elected twice.



;(

or worse when all the fundies declared to rape & pillage the Earth because we'll be raptured anyway. By praying you're going against God's great plan to bring about the apocalypse. So be careful what you pray for, you'll probably get your rain...for 40 days and 40 nights.

The devil went down to Georgia and his name is Perdue.

...I just don't have the link and can't recall the video name

A guy from Georgia telling about Sonny Perdue praying for rain back in June and the weather forcasts all summer long...zero percent chance of rain, consistently. I believe it's titled "Praying for Rain" but ya gotta look thru a bunch of music vids to find it.

...it discussed the three possible results of prayer being a miracle or coincidence and the logic that regardless of what you prayed to, God or a door-nob, the same three outcomes would always happen

:eyes:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/weather/index.html

It has been showing that cold front approaching for several days.

Nice timing sonny.

Humans common sense flies out the window when it comes to wanting to believe in miracles...

:eyes:

is that I have been pointing this out to people and way to many who should know better are falling for it.
What a sad day for Georgia.

"Drought is message from God to conserve better, governor says"

if it rains only in some parts of georgia then does that mean those people who get rain are better christians than the ones who don't get rain?

if they pray real hard and it still doesn't rain does that mean that there is no god? or it is a cruel god? or god thinks they are all bad people?

will he be going to a fortune teller tomorrow to see if the prayers worked?

will they be calling on harry potter to conjure up a thunderstorm?

if it rains all over georgia will we be electing a priest or minister to the white house?

questions, questions, questions.

that are leading to global warming, hence less rain.

They can move you out of eyesight, but a chorus of bullhorns is hard to squelch (particularly if the wind is in your favor).

J

:eyes:

Like the people in other, smarter countries with fewer religious zealots don't already think we are a nation of idiots. Then something like this comes out and we look like medieval soothsayers or witch doctors or something. Good grief!

Hey, why stop with praying to an omniscient, omnipotent vending machine that gives you anything you want if you put in the right prayer coins? Why doesn't Perdue sacrifice a goat and a chicken while he's at it? Believe me, that will work just as well as "praying for rain"!

I am fascinated by the simple-minded conception of God that these zealots have. You just pray for rain and if you've been good all year round, Santa/God will bring it to you. So be good, for goodness' sake!

Does anyone remember a Doors song that starts with these spoken words?



So true.

Why didn't "He" know that there had been no rain in Georgia for such a long time? Maybe "He" did know......Maybe God isn't so pleased with how Georgia has been behavin' of late...Oh God Please save us from your followers....

While I am glad that their little show did not produce an immediate
downpour, thus reinforcing their snake oil commercial, but if there
had been a sudden cloudburst, then the chances of lightning striking
them where they stood would have been greatly enhanced..........

Hey Sonny?? We got your rain up here in East Tennessee yesterday. Maybe god doesn't like you! :rofl:

What a nutbag!

LMAO

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Instead of standing around praying, why don't they do something about this? :eyes:

http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2007-11-12-0016.html

Inquiring minds want to know!

So the villagers went to the shrine and left all their food for the angry spirit, hoping he would release them from his rage and send the big water from the sky to the earth.

Are you fucking KIDDING ME?????

Please oh please tell me why I have to share the 21st century with such ignorant idiots! Why are they in the same fucking universe, breathing the same air as the scientifically enlightened and wasting space?

Religion=mind control. Get a clue, Fundies!

:spray: :rofl: