Reply #41: Two questions for you.

[Bluenorthwest]

First, why post a religious OP in a political forum? Why not in GD, not GDP? I am fine with both politics and religion, if they are separate. If not, they each taint the other. I find such posts to be irreligious, frankly, as well as bad for political discourse.
Second, you keep saying you are not religious, but that you are a believer. You have been asked a couple of times to clarify your own faith. All the world's faiths teach an absolute clarity of speech, hiding nothing, parsing nothing. Yes means yes. So how about some open talk w/o the spin?
And one comment. You and many other religionists here on DU affect surprise when you are mocked for your faith posts, and in fact you all make large noise about how you should be respected and there is always much foot stomping and demands for kind words. The fact is that Jesus and other great world teachers said that their followers would in fact be mocked, even persecuted for their faith, and they were told specifically to rejoice in such mockery or persecution. And that is what it is. Another teaching not reflected in the actions of the faithful on DU or elsewhere.
For me, I'd have found your OP interesting in a non political context, and engaged you with actual questions and observations. Intercessory prayer is a specific form of prayer, and what a conversation could be had. But it is not political, and when it is in the political arena, faith is no longer faith, but a tool of human agendas. And it will be dealt with as such, as human, not as divine.