Ethics

If McCain loses, God's Reputation Will Suffer

By Ed Brayton

So says the obviously clueless pastor who gave the invocation at a McCain rally on Saturday:

Sometimes the most interesting stuff happens before John McCain even arrives. At a McCain rally today in Davenport, a pastor delivered an odd invocation.

"There are millions of people around this world praying to their god -- whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah -- that his [McCain's] opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church. "And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation because they're going to think that their god is bigger than you if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).