"I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," [Pastor] Conrad said.
"And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they're going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and Election Day,"
I've always been struck by the way the religious use the unknowable nature of god as a defense of questions from his existence to the nature of evil, and then spend so much time portraying and treating god as if he were a man (from the fanaticism around the person of Jesus or the prophets ie the word made explicitly human flesh) to this pastors weird concern that the omnipotent, almight god may be slightly jealous if the Christian Barack Obama wins, simply because people of other faiths may have prayed for it.
Either way welcome to the modern Republican Party.
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