In our last episode <lMnCd.13511$f%.924@fe07.lga>, Tom McDonald lept out
of the bushes shouting:
> Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
>> In our last episode <ukgCd.40092$nP1.19979@twister.socal.rr.com>, Jason
>> Gastrich lept out of the bushes shouting:
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>>>Bless Mark Bilbo.
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>> You rang?
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>>>Let him get saved by your awesome grace.
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>> Been there, done that, didn't get a t-shirt though. Hell, you were still
>> a sperm when I was "saved."
>>
>> Anyway... this is downright creepy of you Gastrich...
>>
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> It's just Gastrich's little way. Your average, normal
> Christian might pray this for you; but would do so the way Jesus told us
> to. It'd be done in solitary prayer to God. If one really believes that
> God listens to prayer, and can move someone to come to Him, then a public
> prayer is unnecessary, and perhaps counter-productive. If, on the other
> hand, you think God needs you to get this saving stuff done, then one
> might do what Gastrich did.
Yeah, I think I read something about that once. Something about not
praying in public. That showy, public praying is what hypocrites do to try
to make themselves look good.
It's in some old book somewhere.
> Of course, it is just as likely that Gastrich is using the
> prayer as a weapon in some war he thinks he's fighting; and certainly, he
> thinks it's going to get him gold stamps he can paste in his "Jewels on my
> Crown in Heaven" book. With five filled books, he gets a better harp.
> With 10, he gets to sit at one of the middle tables in the Great Hall.
> With 10,000, he gets to sit next to God.
Problem being, given his behavior and by the fundamentalism I was raised
in, if this god guy exists, Gastrich could be in for a *real eye opener of
a greeting when Jesus says "Have we met?"
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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