Tuesday, May 04, 2010

May Day! May Day! We Wasted a Fortune!


It's sad.
It's funny.
It's pathetic.
It's all that and more.

The Religious "Right" sponsored an event at the Lincoln Memorial on May 1 entitled “May Day 2010: A Cry To God For A Nation In Distress.” They spent upwards of $70,000, and lined up the usual suspects--Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council and Pete LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality to right-wingnut Alan Keyes--for a day-long celebration to “reach the heart of God” and repent America’s wicked ways.

Wicked ways? Hmmmm. Oh yeah. Electing a black man who is pro-gay and pro-choice, and, dear jeebus, a Democrat.

Those wicked ways.

The event was described on the May Day 2010 website like this:

Join with Christian leaders of all denominations who love God to humble ourselves, pray, seek the face of God, and turn from our wicked ways—individually and as a nation.
This event is not to impress the media or those in Washington, but to reach the heart of God. Publicly repenting and crying out to God for His mercy instead of the judgment our many sins deserve.
Repentance in personal and corporate prayer to God and remembrance of His work throughout our nation's history will be major parts of the day as we seek God to do a great work of revival or reformation in our time.

Uh-huh.

So, $70,000 for, what sounds to me like, a big-tent revival meeting. To each his own. But, to get back to the sad, funny, pathetic part. Just 300 people showed up for the Hate Masked As Worship festival.

Three-hundred.

Now, couldn't $70,000 been better spent helping people instead of working to put people down because of their orientation or political views or voting record? Wouldn't God have been more impressed if the seventy grand was used to feed, clothe and shelter people?

I think so.
The Religious "Right"?
Not so much.

3 comments:

  1. I did the math. I was sooooo hoping it would come out to $666 per person... Came out to $233 a person.

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  2. So sad that they focus their energy doing things like this instead of actually doing some good.

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  3. I just don't understand why people continue to attend churches that preach hate of any sort. It doesn't seem to be a place to think about God, and what he means to you and your life. But instead it has become a place of shoving the minister's views down his congregations throats, and sadly many people will believe anything at all, no matter how stupid it is, if a "man of the cloth" says it.

    Do I attend church? No, not since high school when the minister starting spouting how the children of divorced couples are unloved in the eye's of God. Yeah, I got up in the middle of the service and walked the 3 miles home, never to return. As you can guess my parents were divorced.

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