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Army chaplain leads prayer for Fort Hood suspect
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 8, 2009 | ALLEN G. BREED

Posted on 11/08/2009 10:48:18 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Soldiers and others are attending church services at Fort Hood, Texas, and in neighboring Killeen to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree and to honor the victims.

An Army chaplain exhorted worshippers to pray for meaning in the worst massacre on a military facility in the United States.

Col. Frank Jackson expressed frustration Sunday as members of the sprawling Army post "search for motive, search for meaning, search for something, someone to blame."

He urged the congregation to "focus on things we know."

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To: silver charm

I agree. Of course I can see praying for his soul, but to be told to search for a meaning? That Chaplain knows what caused this. There is no search necessary.


21 posted on 11/08/2009 11:03:24 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

I pray for him to have a long, painful, debilitated life, for him to die alone and cold in solitary confinement, for no one to remember his name, or why he murdered, and for him to spend the rest of eternity being turned on a spit over the fires of Hell by Satan (who he called allah back before islam was eliminated from human consciousness).

But that’s just me.


22 posted on 11/08/2009 11:05:07 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 291 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

pray for a man who killed a bunch of people in the name of his religion

yea right
If he got a chance he’d have killed you but you want to pray for him.

No wonder the Christian religion is going down in smoke when all we hear is how Christians should be praying for killers even if they hate you.


23 posted on 11/08/2009 11:08:57 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: silver charm

Does anyone know if that is because he is going to expire or he is recovering?


It means he’s well enough to start signing book deals.


24 posted on 11/08/2009 11:09:36 AM PST by txhurl (It's only a matter of time before FreeRepublic has this fraud's scalp on our lodge pole.)
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To: silver charm
um, that was sell our cloaks and buy daggers.

I'm hoping he recovers so he can be put up before an army firing squad and shot one shot at a time. Wrapped in fresh pig skin ofcourse.

The Japanese were interned in WW2 for far far lass than this. Can't we just send all these muslims back to what ever 3rd world poo hole they crawled out of?

0/11 ,7/7, and 11/7 taught me all I need to know about Islam .

25 posted on 11/08/2009 11:09:57 AM PST by silver charm (Allah is NOT the god of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.)
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To: ReneeLynn; MinuteGal; The Invisible Hand

Do any of you read? He didn’t tell them to search for meaning, the article says he expressed frustration with the searching for meaning.


26 posted on 11/08/2009 11:11:14 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: ReneeLynn; MinuteGal; The Invisible Hand

To be fair, the piece somewhat contradicts itself by saying he exhorted them to search for meaning in one paragraph and saying he expressed frustration with it in the next.


27 posted on 11/08/2009 11:12:24 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: silver charm

ooops, 9/11


28 posted on 11/08/2009 11:12:47 AM PST by silver charm (Allah is NOT the god of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...He also asked them to pray for suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and his family "as they find themselves in a position that no person ever desires to be."

No, chaplain. Hasan is EVIL. Jihadism is EVIL. Read the Lord's prayer. Deliver us from evil. Remember?

As for AP running a story like this, how about connecting Hasan to Al Quaida like the UK press has done? How about running a story on Hasan advising the Obama transition team? Sheesh.

29 posted on 11/08/2009 11:13:04 AM PST by circumbendibus (Where's the Birth Certificate?)
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To: silver charm

Recovering.

Good. Hopefully we’ll be treated to a very public trial, where he will undoubtedly make it crystal clear that murdering infidels is a mohammedan sacrament.

If he died, he’d be dismissed as just another unconnected nutter, nothing to do with islam, nothing to see here, move along...


30 posted on 11/08/2009 11:13:39 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 291 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

yea, I’d pray for him and other Islamist as they slowly boil in a vat of pig blood.


31 posted on 11/08/2009 11:14:26 AM PST by JamesA (Life is a adventure and RANGERS still lead the way.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wouldn’t it be more to the point to pray for the innocent victims of this atrocity?

Your fellow soldiers, Colonel Johnson.


32 posted on 11/08/2009 11:16:03 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We DO need to prayer for Hasan. We need to pray that he repents of his sins. If he doesn’t, then HE’LL have to answer for that before the great Throne of God, but we will have done our duty as Christians.


33 posted on 11/08/2009 11:16:16 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: frogjerk
Moses, why are you praying to me ? get moving.
Exodus 14:15

14. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

15. And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
34 posted on 11/08/2009 11:17:48 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: freeangel
he couldn’t be bothered to visit the injured or pay condolence visits to the families of the dead.

That's okay. I'm sure they did not want to see him anyway. Their real Commander-in-Chief went to visit and pay his respects.

President George W. Bush visits Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers

35 posted on 11/08/2009 11:18:58 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Those families of those victims are not looking for meaning, they are in mourning now in pain...
The only meaning those families know now, is that ? the Government screwed up and need to be held accountable for this act of violence and terrorism.
36 posted on 11/08/2009 11:20:40 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

When did we become such spineless wimps? Our enemies are laughing their asses off at us. There is no need to attack us we are destroying ourselves.


37 posted on 11/08/2009 11:21:34 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
" He urged the congregation to "focus on things we know."
Yes, Government screwed up .
38 posted on 11/08/2009 11:21:40 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: mrsmel
" Why do some Christians only remember the “gentle as doves”...
Because liberals want us to be a doormat, or not rise up in opposition, and want us to be gentle lambs as they lead us to the slaughter.
39 posted on 11/08/2009 11:27:41 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Dan Middleton

I guess we ‘are’ able to read then?


40 posted on 11/08/2009 11:31:17 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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