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Prayers for Atheist Richard Dawkins After His Stroke Sparked Outrage
The Blaze ^ | Feb. 15, 2016 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 02/15/2016 12:47:31 PM PST by TBP

The church, which is the worldwide head of the Anglican Communion, tweeted well-wishes for Dawkins, 74, and his family on Friday night, writing, “Prayers for Prof Dawkins and his family.”

“The tweet was a prayer,” he wrote. “Nothing controversial in that.”

Despite intending no ill will in sending the tweet, Arora said that a row quickly unfolded, with some claiming that the Church of England was “trolling” Dawkins over his illness. In the end, Arora said that the reactions made it apparent that there is profound confusion prayer.

“What is clear in some of the responses is a misunderstanding of what prayer is, who does it and who it is for,” he wrote, going on to offer up a lesson about the power of invocations.

“Prayer is for everyone,” Arora wrote. “Some of the twitter reaction assumed that Christians only pray for other Christians. In fact Christians pray for all kinds of people. They pray for their friends and families. They pray for their community.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: atheism; atheist; atheists; churchofengland; dawkins; prayer; prayers
The intolerance of the left shows up yet again.
1 posted on 02/15/2016 12:47:31 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; ...

Are there any other religions which pray for someone like this when they get seriously ill?


2 posted on 02/15/2016 12:51:34 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)
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To: TBP; Clintonfatigued

It’s the retardation of the left in this case.

Could prayer possibly hurt him? No.

These idiots just love being offended for no good reason.


3 posted on 02/15/2016 12:56:13 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

My this brush with death turn Richard Dawkins heart back to his Creator, God our almighty Father. My he and his followers see the Light, and come to tJesus. Amen.


4 posted on 02/15/2016 1:10:41 PM PST by Angels27
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To: TBP

His wife is the actress Lalla Ward, who played the Time-Lord (Lady?) Romana on “Doctor Who”. She was also briefly married to Tom Baker.

CC


5 posted on 02/15/2016 1:17:57 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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6 posted on 02/15/2016 1:18:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: TBP

Prayers for Atheist Richard Dawkins After His Stroke Sparked Outrage

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I didn’t realize his stroke sparked outrage


7 posted on 02/15/2016 1:21:14 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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So we pray for their guy who is ill. They get mad.... One of our guys die, and they celebrate? Oh yeah, they are the party of peace and love... at least on their lips for hate is in their heart and it shows.


8 posted on 02/15/2016 1:52:56 PM PST by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: TBP

Atheists get so tied up in knots over prayer, it’s like they think it’s some sort of magic spell or something, a reflexive recoiling that should not occur if they’re really certain that there’s no deity of any kind.


9 posted on 02/15/2016 1:55:20 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Celtic Conservative

Lala Ward?

I thought he was married to Mr. Garrison.


10 posted on 02/15/2016 3:19:02 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: TBP

I just put him and all atheists on my prayer list.


11 posted on 02/15/2016 7:25:51 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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