Comments on: National Day Of Prayer Hijacking Continues

By: Alexandra Dianne Cooper

Alexandra Dianne Cooper — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:56:26 +0000

I just can’t understand why such prayer hijacking existed. These people really can’t take it and I think they are very much bored of what they are doing to themselves. They really need a better life I guess.

By: The Power of the Google : Part Two « Rational Dreaming

The Power of the Google : Part Two « Rational Dreaming — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:50:06 +0000

[...] at the chart of daily views for the current month below, you can see what happened. I posted my National Day of Prayer hijacking story on April 10th, and nothing happened until the 13th when, for some reason I have yet to fathom, the [...]

By: Rational Dreamer

Rational Dreamer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:24:28 +0000

KD :
They aren’t tryting to hijack the day of prayer. They aren’t trying to push Christianity on others. They just want to put it out there for others to make their own decisions.

Nonsense. There is no reason for the Dobsons to call their web site the "official site," (implying that it's the official site of the NDP) or to call Franklin Graham the Honorary Chairman of the NDP, (not the Task Force), or to present state governments with "official" themes and "official" Bible verses to be included in state NDP proclamations, which they have done in years past. And whenever I heard Shirley Dobson on the Focus on the Family show to promote her work, it was always as the Chairwoman of the NDP, not the NDP Task Force. And they are not putting it out there for people to make their own decisions. The site is very clearly only meant for conservative Christians who adhere to the same "Biblical worldview" as the Dobsons -- and they will tell you as such, if you dig deep enough into their site.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:51:01 +0000

@KD: There is still prayer in schools. There is no longer FORCED prayer in schools.
I guess you could call Jefferson a Christian if you would call someone who denied the divinity of Christ a Christian.

By: KD

KD — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:24:27 +0000

I guess my statement about America today being the result of Christians is two-sided. If we hadn’t sat back and let Madeline Murray O’Hare have her way, we could still have prayer and the pledge of alliegance in school. Our founding fathers didn’t want a government supported Church as the early colonists had. That is what Jefferson meant by the separation of Church and State. He and the other founding fathers would be ashamed of how far our leaders have taken it. They were Christian men.

By: KD

KD — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:18:57 +0000

They aren’t tryting to hijack the day of prayer. They aren’t trying to push Christianity on others. They just want to put it out there for others to make their own decisions. If it weren’t for Christian people America wouldn’t be what it is today. Would the Day of Prayer still be held if the Dobsons didn’t promote it? Yes Jesus said to pray in private, but there were still times when all the people got together and prayed.

By: The Power of the Google « Rational Dreaming

The Power of the Google « Rational Dreaming — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:17:30 +0000

[...] was clear. People Googling “National Day of Prayer” were clicking over to my recent National Day of Prayer hijacking post. A quick visit to Google revealed that my post had somehow make it onto the first results page of [...]

By: Rational Dreamer

Rational Dreamer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:38:42 +0000

Of course nobody “owns” the National Day of Prayer, but doesn’t it give you even the slightest pause for thought that the NDP Task Force is so keen to wilfully lie about their involvement and role in the observance, or is that all okay because they are lying for Jesus?

By: George Wooley

George Wooley — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:44:08 +0000

Nobody owns the National Day of Prayer. If the NDP Task Force group wants to organize people to pray I’m all for it. The more people pray the better!

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” -2 Chronicles 7:14

By: Rational Dreamer

Rational Dreamer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:42:52 +0000

Hello Russell, what’s so hard to understand? The National Day of Prayer is supposed to be a non-partisan, non-sectarian celebration of prayer for all religious people to partake in, but the religious right in America was not satisfied with that, and hijacked it for their own political ends. Their dishonesty and deceptiveness should be condemned, not excused, and you don’t have to be a religious person to see that.

The irony is that according to what Jesus says in the Bible, you are supposed to pray quietly in your room, not on the street corners where everyone can see you. There is no reason to make a huge fuss over the NDP except for partisan political purposes, and that’s exactly what Dobson’s crew is doing.