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To: MNDude; Blood of Tyrants

Don't get me wrong, I think our goodwill toward the Japanese people extends to all dimensions, here and hereafter: so praying for their eternal well-being is God-pleasing and right. But this sounds like saying to a dazed and suffering mother with a dead and dying family, "There, let that be a lesson to ya. Gonna get baptized now?"

So I hope he really meant to appeal for a Matthew 25 compassionate response. Hopefully the way he worded his prayer could be chalked up to rhetorical thoughtlessness or clumsiness rather than premeditated sado-evangelism.

35 posted on 03/15/2011 4:26:55 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God)

“”There, let that be a lesson to ya. Gonna get baptized now?””

I think that is a really strange interpretation of his prayer!

56 posted on 03/15/2011 5:24:09 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)

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