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Title: Bachmann says God 'will heal our land'
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Published: Jul 4, 2011
Author: JENNIFER JACOBS AND ALYSSA HOOGENDOORN
Post Date: 2011-07-05 13:50:30 by Godwinson
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Bachmann says God 'will heal our land'
12:23 AM, Jul. 4, 2011
Written by JENNIFER JACOBS AND ALYSSA HOOGENDOORN
God will come and heal the land and bring "a new day to the country," presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told an audience at an evangelical Christian church in Waukee on Sunday.
Bachmann shared several personal stories, including about her own spiritual awakening and how a miscarriage became part of the reason she wanted to care for children who had known brokenness.
Later on Sunday in Le Mars, protesters greeted the Minnesota congresswoman, who was on the second day of a new bus tour in a full-size coach emblazoned with her name.
Sean Lang, 21, and Justin Wentz, 22, both of Le Mars, held signs that read "Real Catholics wouldn't vote for a woman" and "Amend the Constitution to outlaw Michele Bachmann."
Onlookers shouted at them, "You guys need to get a job. A real job." When Bachmann walked back to her bus, a man held a Bachmann campaign sign in front of one of the protesters' posters.
Energy is "the most easy problem for America to solve," Bachmann said during her stop at the Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor & Museum in Le Mars.
"We have 25 percent of the world's coal here. Trillions of cubic square feet of natural gas here. We just built one of the world's largest lines of natural gas here," she said. "We have got more oil in three Western states in shale oil than all of Saudi Arabia. Did you hear that on your local nightly news? Are you kidding? We've got it. I say let's go get it."
In the morning stop at Point of Grace Church in Waukee, three sheriff's deputies stood guard from the rear of the stadium seating, looking down at a crowd of at least 200.
In her 21-minute talk, she didn't urge churchgoers to come to the GOP straw poll this summer, nor did she mention the Iowa caucuses, or the president, or even the word "Republican." Instead, she focused on God and her personal history.
She stumbled a bit on standard lines she usually delivers smoothly, getting a little tongue-tied when citing a Bible passage, for example.
Nevertheless, Bachmann, a religious conservative who is firmly opposed to all abortions and to gay marriage, seemed comfortable in the pulpit position, among a crowd of believers whose faith is similar to her own.
She noted that the church members had a replica painting of "Prayer at Valley Forge" in the lobby, the same image of a kneeling, battle-ready George Washington that Bachmann has in her office in Washington, D.C.
"We, too, are at a crucial time today. And I think it is for us to remember, that if we do as Chronicles tells us, if we humble ourselves, and pray and confess our sins, and turn away from our wicked ways, and ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us, we know from his word, his promise is sure. He will come. He will heal our land. And we will have a new day."
God is not partial, she said. "What he will do for one, he will do for all. And it is the same with nations as well. And as we seek him, he's there for us. I have seen it. I have lived that in my own life since I came to him, out of his grace, in his mercy, back on November 1st of 1972."
The date is a reference to when Bachmann, at age 16, gave her life to Jesus Christ.
Bachmann said the day after high school graduation, she and a youth group traveled to Israel to see "where it all began." To loud applause, she said: "And I want you to know that I stand with Israel."
She also shared that she'd had a miscarriage after her first two children were born - an experience she first mentioned on the campaign trail last week in South Carolina.
"I became pregnant with our third baby, and it was unexpected, but of course we were thrilled to have this baby," she said. She miscarried after about three months.
"I'd never known anyone who'd had a miscarriage. And it was a profound experience for both of us. It changed us," she said.
At that moment, she and her husband, Marcus, prayed and said they would accept as many children into their lives as God wished, she said. They went on to have three more biological children and care for 23 foster children.
Bachmann continues on the campaign trail today, with a stop in Clear Lake for a Fourth of July celebration.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Republicans want others to fight their battles for them. LOL!
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
This 1866 engraving depicts Washington praying at Valley Forge. In 1918, the Valley Forge Park Commission declined to erect a monument to the prayer because they could find no evidence that the event had occurred. In 1945, an article was published by the Valley Forge Historical Society in which the writer presents the accounts of the purported incident and, while acknowledging the second hand records of the tradition "lack ... the authentication with which the historian seeks to monument his recordings in all the solemnity of established fact", rhetorically asks if it is unreasonable to believe the event might have occurred.
This also is linked to the proven false report that George Washington had a prophetic vision as well. Remember the Protestants were crazier than usual around the 1860s. PS: The painting in question dates from 1975 by Arnold Friberg.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Its amusing to watch you leftwingnuts going berserk over Bachmann or Palin. All it does is highlight just how far removed from average American voters you really are.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
You mean mock them? Sure. It's fun.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
She's praying to GOD not hObama and the socialist state, so it works. Your prayers were sent to the wrong address, so all you've got is hope and some loose change.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Not until we change our attitude and behavior towards the poor.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
So people prayed and Obama won the presidency and Republicans are stuck with a crazy woman who mangles Biblical passages.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Then Republicans should not bother voting.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
LOL
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Why is it these crackpot Christians always mix and match the Hebrew bible and the Christian one? The early Christians believed the HB had been superseded by the teachings of Jesus; todays Magic Christians blend them together in the same way they selectively use scripture to justify their actions.
I missed the part of the Bible that forbids government aid to the poor.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Since the Hebrews were ruled by a theocratic monarchy, the bible was their constitution and God's commandment's were law. And the OT God sounds like he is a socialist: Deut. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. (Man does that sound like Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" or what?) Deut. 26:12. When you have finished paying the complete tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and the widow, that they may eat in your towns, and be satisfied. Lev. 19:19ff. Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God. Prov. 31:8ff. [Commandment to kings.] Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy. Is. 58:66ff. Is this not the fast which I choose, to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into the house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Is there some sort of threshold that "we" must reach to get to new world? Like once we get 51% of the population to follow Bachmann's advice we will all be saved. How exactly does this work?
The current Bachmann Magic Christian version of Jesus see him as a cross between a super capitalist and Rambo. Helping the poor is for suckers; conversion and growing the church is where the action is today.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Bachmann says God 'will heal our land' Then Republicans should not bother voting. Odd view you have here, Godwincing. Its your boy Owe-bama who announced in his Inauguration "The oceans will recede, the land will begin to heal...'
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
So Bachmann is now copying an Obama speech as her own, the GOP: the party of plagiarists.
Obama, unlike the lazy Republicans who want "god" to do things for them stated actually stated: Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal Republicans thus are lazy and shiftless wanting Jesus to do all the work while Obama wants people to fix the nation's problems. You know all the Republicans are willing to pay Jesus in return for healing the land is free prayer. No wonder the Republicans allowed all those Mexicans named Jesus into to the country and pay them nothing. Maybe they got their Jesus' confused?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Its your boy Owe-bama who announced in his Inauguration "The oceans will recede, the land will begin to heal...' So Bachmann is now copying an Obama speech as her own, the GOP: the party of plagiarists. Ah, nope. Bachman doesn't believe Owe-bama is 'God'.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Known as cheap grace.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Actually what they want is to cloak themselves as the earthly representatives of Jesus to give them the authority to do whatever the hell they want to do.
So you think someone taking care of their family or for indigent people of their church is a socialist? You're such a dumbass.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Hello you racist prick, scumbag. Usually I don't want to communicate with someone like you who is a pederast but I will make an exception......The quotes above @#14 are from the pre church Hebrew kingdom and are commandments from the God of Abraham - it is the law in the theocratic monarchy of the Hebrews to set aside tithes for the poor - i.e. welfare, i.e. socialism.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us, we know from his word, his promise is sure. He will come. He will heal our land. And we will have a new day."
#2. To: Godwinson (#0)
She noted that the church members had a replica painting of "Prayer at Valley Forge" in the lobby, the same image of a kneeling, battle-ready George Washington that Bachmann has in her office in Washington, D.C.
#3. To: calcon (#2)
(Edited)
This 1866 engraving depicts Washington praying at Valley Forge. In 1918, the Valley Forge Park Commission declined to erect a monument to the prayer because they could find no evidence that the event had occurred.
#4. To: Godwinson (#0)
#5. To: Badeye (#4)
Its amusing to watch you leftwingnuts going berserk over Bachmann or Palin.
#6. To: Godwinson (#1)
ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: Godwinson (#0)
Bachmann says God 'will heal our land'
#8. To: hondo68 (#6)
She's praying to GOD not hObama and the socialist state, so it works. Your prayers were sent to the wrong address, so all you've got is hope and some loose change.
#9. To: lucysmom (#7)
Bachmann says God 'will heal our land'
#10. To: Godwinson (#9)
#11. To: lucysmom (#7)
The Bible teaches PRIVATE donations to the poor, not government largesse. I suggest you walk around some inner city with your purse open and tell everybody, "come and get it." You know it will be appreciated.
#12. To: Godwinson (#0)
"We, too, are at a crucial time today. And I think it is for us to remember, that if we do as Chronicles tells us, if we humble ourselves, and pray and confess our sins, and turn away from our wicked ways, and ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us, we know from his word, his promise is sure. He will come. He will heal our land. And we will have a new day."
#13. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
The Bible teaches PRIVATE donations to the poor, not government largesse.
#14. To: lucysmom, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro (#13)
(Edited)
The Bible teaches PRIVATE donations to the poor, not government largesse.
#15. To: Godwinson (#0)
if we humble ourselves, and pray and confess our sins, and turn away from our wicked ways, and ask an almighty God to come and protect us and fight the battle for us, we know from his word, his promise is sure. He will come. He will heal our land. And we will have a new day."
#16. To: Godwinson (#14)
#17. To: Godwinson (#5)
Its amusing to watch you leftwingnuts going berserk over Bachmann or Palin.
#18. To: Godwinson (#9)
#19. To: Badeye (#18)
(Edited)
Its your boy Owe-bama who announced in his Inauguration "The oceans will recede, the land will begin to heal...'
#20. To: Badeye, mininggold (#18)
#21. To: mininggold (#19)
#22. To: Godwinson (#20)
Its your boy Owe-bama who announced in his Inauguration "The oceans will recede, the land will begin to heal...'
#23. To: Godwinson (#20)
Republicans thus are lazy and shiftless wanting Jesus to do all the work
#24. To: Godwinson (#20)
Republicans thus are lazy and shiftless wanting Jesus to do all the work
#25. To: Godwinson (#14)
#26. To: no gnu taxes (#25)
So you think someone taking care of their family or for indigent people of their church is a socialist? You're such a dumbass.
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