Sure JD, sure

[dcmfox]

— Dcmfox (@dcmfox.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T18:06:25.682Z

[Blue Owl]

1. Thank you Lord for this couch which I am about to fuck

[FadedMullet]

5. OK, that made me laugh.

[Torchlight]

2. All things being equal, I doubt I'll ever mock a sincere and kind practice of any faith

Using prayer as nothing more than a prop to pander to weapons industries and their wee enthusiasts however, is a dangerous flirtation with faithless apostasy, and the radical American clerics who do so are urging their flocks into a deep, dark, narrow canyon. Precisely where Mr. trump wants them...

[FadedMullet]

6. Wow, Torch, my man, well said.

[rubbersole]

10. I thought the "deep, dark, narrow canyon" was the waddle under tsf's chin.

[lastlib]

12. No, it's at the other end........

...in back.......

But they're connected.....

[Hekate]

11. Exactly what I was trying to say yesterday when someone accused me of mocking prayer and Christianity itself

I finally gave up. You said it much more eccliasticly than I. (Bungled the e-word but I’m stuck on my phone)

[bluescribbler]

15. Mary Gauthier said it well.

"My church and my country could use a little mercy now
As they slide into the poison pit It'll take forever to climb out.
They carry the weight of the faithful who follow them down.
I love my church and country, they could use a little mercy now."

From her song, Mercy Now.

[Solly Mack]

3. Evidence would suggest that prayer is, in fact, a substitute for action.

But I can see how a lying hypocrite who embraces denial would say otherwise.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Highly doubtful Vance has a heart to break or believes in God.

He is such a liar.

[patphil]

7. When you're in a position to take action, and you ask for prayers without any action to follow....

You mock the whole idea of prayer.
Prayer isn't a replacement for action. It's a call for God's love to help guide your actions.
But it appears that you have no interest in anything other than the illusion of caring.
Such is the way of JD Vance, and so many others like him.

[Klondike Kat]

8. Faith without works is dead

James 2:14-26

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [e]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

[Mblaze]

9. Vance writes

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"We pray because our hearts are broken and we believe that God is listening."

If your God is listening then your God seems to be content that you don't work energetically toward getting weapons of war off the streets of America. Other nations have been able to do that. One would think that your God would inspire you to do just that.

[GiqueCee]

13. The GOP...

... only approves the Old Testament God. Y'know, that vindictive SOB that told Abe to kill his son to prove his devotion to Him. That's the God Vance worships; the one that says, "HA! GOTCHA! Just kidding. Well... aren't you going to say, 'Thank you?'"

[niyad]

14. Hey, couchhumper. .if the ""god" you supposedly pray to is listening,

supposedly actually CARES, THEN WHY THE FUCK DOES HE ALLOW THIS HORRIFIC DESTRUCTION IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE???

[summer_in_TX]

16. Prayer, like faith, without action is dead.

Zach W. Lambert

https://substack.com/@zachwlambert/note/c-149797154

Suppose someone's child is gunned down. If one of you says to them, "Here are my thoughts and prayers," but does nothing else, what good is it?

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

- James 2:15-17 (with a modern update)

[biophile]

17. God helps those who help themselves

God(dess) appreciates our appeals for intervention and assistance but certainly wants us to be at least partially active on our own behalf. At least, that is my belief set.
The old man who had asked god all his life to let him win the lottery, said “ please I’ve been asking and praying for this for years. Why haven’t you answered my prayers?” Finally god said “Herb, buy a ticket!”