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(Slate)   Our political divide has led to the Great National Prayer Breakfast Schism of 2023, which has resulted in us needing to have two separate prayer breakfasts instead of just one. So now both sides can do something equally useless on their own   (slate.com) divider line
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2016 clicks; posted to Politics » and Main » on 02 Feb 2023 at 8:41 AM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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OdradekRex [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:06:07 AM  
Splitters!
 
DoBeDoBeDo [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:31:03 AM  
Love the deflection that "it's a long way across town".  It's closer to the Capital than the Vice President's home is.

They can't just say it's become a "meet the Russians" breakfast and that's just bad optics right now.
 
SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:35:11 AM  
Take your paywall and shove it.
 
doomjesse
2023-02-02 8:52:48 AM  

OdradekRex: Splitters!


Splitters are for quitters?
 
mrparks
2023-02-02 8:53:04 AM  
Someone called the turnovers a danish.
 
eKonk
2023-02-02 8:53:16 AM  
How about we just do away with this nonsense, all together?
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:53:48 AM  
At least both have carried on the tradition of serving food with googly eyes
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VictoryCabal
2023-02-02 8:54:27 AM  

mrparks: Someone called the turnovers a danish.


If they called them a flemmish, no one would eat them.
 
Another Government Employee
2023-02-02 8:54:47 AM  
So, instead of one big lobbying event, it has become two.
 
PirateKing [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:54:52 AM  
The real show will happen when god realizes he's got two breakfasts at the same time on opposite sides of town. It's like a sitcom plot.
 
Glorious Golden Ass [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:55:09 AM  
The real scandal is that both forgot to invite Jesus.
 
doomjesse
2023-02-02 8:55:15 AM  
Martin Luther approves this message!

The Selling of Washington indulgences does not remove guilt.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-02 8:57:23 AM  
I yearn for the day when our species comes to the common understanding we have outgrown the need for religion.
 
Someone Else's Alt [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:58:07 AM  

eKonk: How about we just do away with this nonsense, all together?


Here is the right answer.
 
Super_pope
2023-02-02 8:58:12 AM  
The conservatives were dis-invited after they tried to get everyone to pray for the elimination of non-whites and gays.  I'm kidding I'm kidding, the dem leadership is much too cowardly to stand up to something like that.
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-02 8:58:40 AM  
Things are different now that Congressman Took is in charge.

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UNC_Samurai
2023-02-02 8:58:53 AM  
Schism! At the Prayer Breakfast

Okay, that got a chuckle.  But in general can we just get rid of the National Prayer Breakfast nonsense entirely?  It was conceived by rich assholes who wanted a venue to invite other business leader assholes and plot against unions.
 
Alphax
2023-02-02 8:59:11 AM  
I'd rather no one went to events sponsored by The Family.  But good luck ending something with 'prayer' in the name.
 
Conthan
2023-02-02 8:59:12 AM  

PirateKing: The real show will happen when god realizes he's got two breakfasts at the same time on opposite sides of town. It's like a sitcom plot.


At the recent Michael Flynn / Clay Clark Reawaken America tour event there were multiple prophets speaking as god at the same time.
 
Persnickety [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:59:22 AM  
Whichever group's prayers convince God to smite the other wins!

If God smites them both, we all win.
 
Merltech
2023-02-02 8:59:31 AM  

eKonk: How about we just do away with this nonsense, all together?


Who else will people ask for forgiveness from when they screw people out of money, ect.
 
DocNoyes
2023-02-02 8:59:41 AM  
"This "breakfast," which is actually a two-day series of events, has been rebranded as "the Gathering"

Good lots of headless people at the end!
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Someone Else's Alt [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:00:20 AM  

foo monkey: I yearn for the day when our species comes to the common understanding we have outgrown the need for religion.


Never going to happen, the conservatives are devolving, or with the more moderate leaving the churches what is left is concentrated shiat.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:00:36 AM  
I'd like to see the Jewish congressional members bring the few Buddhists along to the new one and say "What's All This Then?"
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:00:59 AM  
All theocrats are bad.
 
Doctor Funkenstein
2023-02-02 9:01:41 AM  

Someone Else's Alt: eKonk: How about we just do away with this nonsense, all together?

Here is the right answer.


These.  This National Prayer Breakfast thing has always been shifty.
 
GoldSpider
2023-02-02 9:01:42 AM  
For its entire 70-year history, the National Prayer Breakfast has been hosted by the mysterious International Foundation, or Fellowship Foundation, which is known colloquially as "The Family" or "The Fellowship."

That was until the Triad of Inner Strength was exposed as a sham philosophy that preyed on the weak and rudderless, and its leaders slain before the Black Gate.

/not obscure
 
ProfessorBling [BareFark]
2023-02-02 9:02:24 AM  

UNC_Samurai: Schism! At the Prayer Breakfast

Okay, that got a chuckle.  But in general can we just get rid of the National Prayer Breakfast nonsense entirely?  It was conceived by rich assholes who wanted a venue to invite other business leader assholes and plot against unions.


Schism! At The Prayer Breakfast isn't a Tool and Panic at the disco cover band?
 
RandomInternetComment
2023-02-02 9:02:35 AM  

SpaceMonkey-66: Take your paywall and shove it.


Bro duck duck go. I didn't get a paywall. Just sayin.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:03:05 AM  

foo monkey: I yearn for the day when our species comes to the common understanding we have outgrown the need for religion.


Fine. We'll all complete the transition into worshipping our secular nation-state identities then and we'll continue as usual.

/lol Durkheim
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:03:12 AM  

RandomInternetComment: SpaceMonkey-66: Take your paywall and shove it.

Bro duck duck go. I didn't get a paywall. Just sayin.


Or use 12ft.io
 
Persnickety [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:03:43 AM  
Suppose they gave a prayer breakfast and nobody came?
 
GoldSpider
2023-02-02 9:04:34 AM  

Somacandra: We'll all complete the transition into worshipping our secular nation-state identities then and we'll continue as usual.


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Someone Else's Alt [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:05:37 AM  

Somacandra: I'd like to see the Jewish congressional members bring the few Buddhists along to the new one and say "What's All This Then?"


To bad there are no terrorist organizations with the balls to take down the whole building with everyone in it.

If every church in the US were to disappear tomorrow, the world would be a better place for a very long time.
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:05:39 AM  

Persnickety: Suppose they gave a prayer breakfast and nobody came?


There's a reason why they don't let anyone underage into the event.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:05:43 AM  
I'd also enjoy seeing Congressional Muslims crash both breakfasts with pointed questions about the evangelical Protestantism baked in to these events and foundations.
 
Murkanen
2023-02-02 9:06:02 AM  

foo monkey: I yearn for the day when our species comes to the common understanding we have outgrown the need for religion.


The question they ask about how lack of religion means you're allowed to rape and murder as much as you want because there's no consequences for you after you die is very revealing about the mindset these people have.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:06:20 AM  

GoldSpider: Somacandra: We'll all complete the transition into worshipping our secular nation-state identities then and we'll continue as usual.

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See! We're halfway there already!

/whoa, livin on a prayer
 
HighOnCraic
2023-02-02 9:06:23 AM  

Alphax: I'd rather no one went to events sponsored by The Family.

The Family - Screams of Passion (Live)
Youtube H0302-sAdrE
 
EyeballKid
2023-02-02 9:06:28 AM  
It's a shame there's no separation of church and state in this country that would make these sort of gatherings unethical at the very least.
 
dsmith42 [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:06:50 AM  
Its not useless. It is a vehicle for the Christian Nationialists to influence Congress and leaders of other nations. It is actively farking evil. It is sponsored by The Family, aka The Fellowship, aka the right wing Christian Cult in DC that a disturbingly large number of Congresscritters belong to. Remember the Kill the Gays bills in Uganda? The Family through their influential Congresspeople got those bills passed. This is a cult that claims that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc were chosen by God because of their power. It is abhorrent that it even exists.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:08:52 AM  

Someone Else's Alt: If every church in the US were to disappear tomorrow, the world would be a better place for a very long time.


If you think about what would actually happen in that case, I doubt things would improve. The social panic and extreme disruption would probably bring down the country, or end up launching nukes and brining down the world.
 
severedtoe
2023-02-02 9:09:56 AM  
I see, so the noisy, angry zealots have made the quiet, passive-aggressive zealots uncomfortable.  now we have two backwards influence pedaling organization pushing for things most of america doesn't want.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:11:02 AM  
I would be very interested to see where Black Christians are here. I suspect this Christian nationalism is also as Mayonnaise as it gets.
 
EyeballKid
2023-02-02 9:12:12 AM  

severedtoe: now we have two backwards influence pedaling organization pushing for things most of america doesn't want.


Now?!

I think both wings of the Protect the Wealth at All Costs Party have been around for some time.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-02 9:13:16 AM  
I'll be attending the Thoughts and Prayers breakfast.  We don't serve any food.  Let the thoughts and prayers fill you up instead.
 
RandomInternetComment
2023-02-02 9:15:04 AM  

AdmirableSnackbar: RandomInternetComment: SpaceMonkey-66: Take your paywall and shove it.

Bro duck duck go. I didn't get a paywall. Just sayin.

Or use 12ft.io


See this? DO YOU SEE THIS? shiat like this is why I continue to fark. I lost the password to my old account but I've been here like litererally since 2004...

All hail drew curtis. And thank you space monkey.
 
Murkanen
2023-02-02 9:15:18 AM  

Somacandra: I would be very interested to see where Black Christians are here. I suspect this Christian nationalism is also as Mayonnaise as it gets.


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Mayo as far as the eyes can see.
 
MikeyFuccon
2023-02-02 9:15:21 AM  

CarnySaur: At least both have carried on the tradition of serving food with googly eyes
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I was going to say about the breakfasts---clearly in heaven there is no beer, if there's no fried food.

Give Old Nick credit for salesmanship, anyway. He whips up a damn good breakfast spread in exchange for your soul.

/heaven is blue, hell is red
//DNRTFA due to paywall
 
Dictatorial_Flair
2023-02-02 9:17:11 AM  
And for those who didn't want to wake up so early, they have a few Treason Brunches around town at funky little coffee shops.
 
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