Posted on 01/04/2021 7:32:39 AM PST by lowbridge
A House Democrat tasked with leading the body in an opening prayer for the new Congress has gendered the word “amen.”
To close a prayer he delivered from the House chamber Sunday to mark the swearing in of the 117th Congress, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), an ordained minister, altered the traditional “amen” to say “amen and awoman.”
“May the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace,” Cleaver said during his two-minute invocation, “Peace in our families, peace across this land, and dare I ask o Lord, peace even in this chamber.”
“We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘god’ known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and awoman.”
While Cleaver may have been trying to be inclusive to women, “amen” is not a gendered word. The word translates from Hebrew to mean “so be it.”
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What an idiot!
And this is who is running our country..God help us
In the meaning of things...’ordained’ minister these days can probably mean four weekend seminars and a $1,000 check for a certificate.
Think correspondence course on the cover of a matchbook.
......“We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘god’ known by many names by many different faiths......
Pure syncretistic heresy!!!!
The man is an uneducated idiot and is depending on his fellows who are ignorant to propagate the untruth that “amen” has anything to do with “men”, which it does not.
In the most simple terms, amen means “so be it”.
It is derived from an ancient Hebrew word having nothing to do with “men”.
You have to be kidding me. Oh no, I said “me” which is the first 2 letters of “men”. I must be sexist and racist. This crap is just starting, I don’t even want to think how bad it’s going to be if Biden takes office. I heard Pelosi already wants all references to gender banned so what does that mean? Everyone will be called “it”?
What an idiot!
And this is who is running our country..God help us
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dude makes GA Rep Hank Johnson look smart.
Our downfall as a nation is accelerating now due to nonsense like this
Is he Biblically ignorant..........or intentionally divisive.....( think I know the answer)
’ordained’ minister these days can probably mean four weekend seminars and a $1,000 check for a certificate.
Or just self ordained. These asshats with this new gender crap should could just create the word apeople and be done with it.
Ass far as calling the speaker an a hole, at least that is not gender spacific.
Now, that is just stupid.
I demand that they follow the new House rules and end each prayer with “APERSON”
Also, pretty sure they have to stop saying things like Our Heavenly Father.
Thems da rules.
The Amen and Awomen is not the shocking part of his prayer . It the demon he named as his “god”
This is no Pastor
The one he name is NOT God
...Is he Biblically ignorant..........or intentionally divisive.....( think I know the answer)
Yes to both, and other tbings too
When people get this brainwashed, this idiotic, it is literally impossible to have a conversation with them. And these people are our leaders? No. It’s time for a change.
You can just pay and do nothing to be ordained. There are tons of avenues to do this online. It has absolutely no meaning.
Former Kansas City MO mayor and already has a street named after him. The bar is very low.
What a dipshit this guy is.
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