Christian Evangelicals - not all are made equal
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At least two of them knew that they shouldn't be holding a prayer circle in a government building judging by the way they stopped and looked around to see if anyone was watching them.
Why any halfway sane person would put these lunatics in charge of anything is beyond me.
Why any halfway sane person would put these lunatics in charge of anything is beyond me.
Why does it have to be there though? Christians can pray to God anywhere. Physical location is irrelevant, even if the prayer is about a specific place.
Because it was about tearing down the division between church and state. They want a christian autocracy: and are literally praying for it in the center of democracy for the state. That's the point: they want to be the religious zealots that tell the rest of what to do and how to do it.
I should note that going to a physical location to "pray over it" is very much a thing, even besides the bit in wonko's post above.
I mean... pilgrimages are literally a thing.
Pilgrimages are rather a different thing, though. Usually, a pilgrimage is (explicitly) about letting the place have an impact on the believer, whereas we're more talking about the influence believers might have on specific places.
They went to a spot to pray they would take control of it.
You're right, not a pilgrimage: it was part of a crusade.
You're right, not a pilgrimage: it was part of a crusade.
However, it's not necessarily something backed by Biblical teaching, if I recall.
It's not the theology I ascribe to, to be sure, but that was hardly the point I was making in bringing it up.
i wasn't criticising you, more the people who were seemingly trying to bless a large blue carpet...
They weren't blessing a carpet. They were praying to successfully overthrow their democracy. They are literally christian taliban.
They were demonstrating their numbers and daring anyone to do anything about it. Anyone who did would quickly be blasted for being anti-Christian, which in red states is pretty much a death sentence for their political career (and possibly also for their actual lives, the way things are going). This wasn't prayer, it was terrorism.