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Showing Original Post only (View all)Paul Ryan Defends His Call For Prayers After Texas Mass Shooting: Prayer Works [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
Its disappointing, its sad, and this is what youll get from the far secular left. People who do not have faith dont understand faith, I guess Id have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing this thing, its no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in this country when people think like that
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-mass-shooting-prayer_us_5a014f1fe4b07eb51181be67?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Note the slap at the left - We do not have faith and don't understand faith and shifting the polarization and disunity in the country to those who lack faith .
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Paul Ryan Defends His Call For Prayers After Texas Mass Shooting: Prayer Works [View all]
packman
Nov 2017
OP
Well, his prayers for destroying the "New Deal" and the "Great Society" are coming true.
AJT
Nov 2017
#8
Those prayers are coming true in the sense that "God helps those who help themselves"
FiveGoodMen
Nov 2017
#48
So is this why he and his fellow Congress people could not create a health care system
logosoco
Nov 2017
#9
No one prayed for them NOT to be shot ahead of time so God thought it would be OK.
Kablooie
Nov 2017
#15
This word 'faith,' the way it is so often used, gives me the creepie creeps....
pangaia
Nov 2017
#29
I'm not a religious person, but I do recall the phrase,"God helps those who help themselves".
Laurian
Nov 2017
#30
As if the left and right divide so neatly on secular vs religiosity. Does he include muslims in the
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#31
PRAY Americas #1 in world suicide rate drops? because some mass murder before they suicide.
Sunlei
Nov 2017
#36
If "prayer works" then why didn't Gawd protect his true believers in that Texas church.
Nitram
Nov 2017
#41
We all know what Paul Ryan prays for he told us he's been doing it since college
blueinredohio
Nov 2017
#42
Hey Paul! How about etching the Lord's Prayer on the barrel of every gun produced?
Eyeball_Kid
Nov 2017
#52