Would-be rapist halts attack when woman begins to pray

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 1/23/03 | News Tribune staff

[ppaul]

TACOMA -- A potential rape was halted after the woman who was being attacked began praying, police say.

The woman told police she was changing clothes in the bedroom of her apartment early Friday morning after going outside for a cigarette when a stranger appeared in the doorway of her bedroom.

He threatened her and told her to take off her underwear, then pushed her onto the bed and began to assault her when she said no.

She told investigators she pushed against him and said repeatedly, "Please, God. Please, God, no. God, please, no," after which he stood up and asked her if she was a Christian.

When she said yes, he zipped up his pants, apologized, shook her hand, told her to lock her door and left.

As of late Tuesday, no arrest had been made in the case

Link to article HERE.

[spetznaz]

wow

[ppaul]

ping.

[inquest]

There's no "wow" about it. Instead of being a pig, the guy's a bigoted pig, that's all. He would have gone ahead and defiled her if she had answered no.

[Damocles]

early Friday morning after going outside for a cigarette

She obviously fooled the rapist into thinking she was a Christian. Everyone knows Christians don't smoke!!

[spetznaz]

Hehe.

[ZULU]

Good Christians aren't rapists either.

[EternalVigilance]

Prayer is powerful.

[Pyro7480]

Talk about putting the fear of GOD into someone!

[TexRef]

"Please, God. Please, God, no. God, please, no,"

That is a prayer?!?

Not in today's language — most people use "God" as an adjective or explative, which is what it sounds like in this case.

Slow news day I guess.

[mdittmar]

She should have owned a gun.Then this pos would have been saying,"Please, God. Please, God, no. God, please, no,"

[ppaul]

"No atheists in foxholes."

[bandleader]

Somebody Else Takes The "WORD" Out Of My Mouth!!

[Onelifetogive]

Good Christians aren't rapists either.

I'm guessing that he wasn't a Christian, but maybe he was a little afraid to mess with God's property.

[MEGoody]

Oh come on, is this for real?

[CCWoody]

It seems as if we Calvinists here have the only Biblical explaination of what happened:

For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. ~ The Lord (Gen 20:6)

Woody.

[MEGoody]

"That is a prayer?!?"

Yes, and a perfectly acceptable one. God's not concerned that the words be flowery or that we even express in a manner that is understandable to humans what it is we are praying about. He knows the heart, the soul the mind. As scripture says, the Spirit intercedes for us when we don't know what to pray.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

It seems as if we Calvinists here have the only Biblical explaination of what happened:

For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. ~ The Lord (Gen 20:6)

17)And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19) Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20) Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Luke 10:17-20 KJV

[stubernx98]

Something similar happened to my wife in Colorado Springs late at night on a deserted street. Some guy pulled over got out and shoved a gun in her face and said, "get in the car". No way she was going to get in the car, so she started praying, and receiting the Lord's Prayer. The guy said somethng like "oh, hell with you", hopped back in the car and drove off.

Moral: Don't get in the car no matter what.

[VOA]

this story has been reported on Paul Harvey's "News and Comments" today...