Confused over God's politics

[Brainstormy]

Full disclosure: I'm agnostic. So maybe I don't get it. But many of my Facebook fans, after posting short warnings of the apocalyptic results of another 4 years of Obama, are urging others to pray for a Romney win. What I can't figure out is where the believer goes, intellectually, in the event that doesn't happen.
Is it? (a) We didn't pray hard enough, or enough of us didn't pray. (b) God is actually a Democrat (c) God doesn't do politics, (c) The devil prevailed on this one, or (d) Geez, something else.

Whatever it is it seems to be to take the same kind of mental, and moral, gymnastics required when the team you prayed for doesn't win the World Series. Oh well.

[Anthony McCarthy]

1. Good Lord

do you really want to get into a discussion of this? Atheists snarking uninformedly about things that more than 85% of the electorate believe?

And people wonder why the left has such a hard time of gaining power. Insulting a majority, such a brilliant political strategy that only Bright folks can get it.

[Brainstormy]

4. There's snark

And there's snark. It was a legitimate question. As a member of the vast majority, you might have tried answering it instead.

[Anthony McCarthy]

6. I'm tired of the uninformed snark and the political damage it does to the left

I am as tired of that as I am of hearing Amazing Grace. Only Amazing Grace doesn't lose us support.

[Brainstormy]

8. Do you mind telling me

what was "uninformed" about my post?

[Anthony McCarthy]

11. Read the developing and entirely predictable snark.

You said you didn't understand how religious people think, so you pretty much declared yourself uninformed. There is no one way religious people think any more than there is how agnostics think.

[BillStein]

12. if he's uninformed

why don't you try to answer his question (aka informing him) instead of making accusations?

[Anthony McCarthy]

13. There is no one answer

We have free will and different lives. Why not explain why some atheists are sensible and reasonable and some are ignorant, obnoxious jerks?

[immoderate]

2. There's always an answer. "Mysterious ways" covers everything.

That's why god sent Sandy to make Obama look good.

Believers always find a rationalization to reinforce their beliefs.

--imm

[JRLeft]

3. I'm an Atheist and from what I can see God doesn't give a fuck about anything.

Look at the republicon party for example, if there was a loving God all of these assholes would be voted out.

[gateley]

5. For those who believe God cares about politics, I doubt if they will "intellectually" go anywhere.

That being said, I find it interesting that since I don't believe in a God and believe the source (whatever that is) is neutral, find myself thinking "Oh Please, God, let Obama win".

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I'd sure tell them it's their fault. They just didn't have enough faith nor prayed

enough. That's what they tell the poor.

[modrepub]

9. If anything

it gives them solace that if something bad does happen it's not their fault. In my experience something bad always does happen, eventually. Whether the response is the bad thing happened because of Devine punishment for deviating from the faith or a test of one's faith and resolve depends on which person holds the strings of power (a faithless/moslem socialist, or an evangelical lamb of God). Either way they'll find a way to say that they are right (and you are wrong); heads I win, tails you loose.

[AnnaLee]

10. Easy one. Onward Christian Soldiers

The staging for everything already redundantly exists.