Rick Perry’s prayer rally, “The Response”, has come and gone.  Now we just get to wait until all of the prayers are answered.  30,000 people showed up to pray, so I’m sure God got the message.  “This country is screwed, Jesus!  Please send help!”  It’s got to work, right?  I mean, Perry invited some quality people to this thing.

From Rachel Maddow, Crooks and Liars, and Right Wing Watch, a few examples of these paragons of right wing virtue:

Rick Perry Partner John Benefiel Claims Homosexuality Is An Illuminati Conspiracy:

Earlier today we posted video of “Apostle” John Benefiel, an official endorser of Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally, arguing that the Statue of Liberty is a “demonic idol” used for pagan worship. In the same sermon, Benefiel claims that homosexuality is a plot by the Illuminati to “control the population.” He says that the Illuminati intend to reduce the world population to just 500 million people and that, along with the recently passed health care reform law, the secretive group will use homosexuality as a “perverted way” to bring about “a death culture” and population control.

Benefiel also insists that homosexuality is a “stronghold” of the “demon god” Baal.

And:

Hagee: President Obama Is A Dictator:

In an interview on the Daystar show Celebration, John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church said that President Obama is a “dictator” for his actions in Libya. Hagee, a leader in the Religious Right who is involved in organizing Texas Governor Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally, has previously claimed that Adolf Hitler was a “hunter” sent by God to hunt Jews. “You want to talk about how absolutely insane our government is right now, we are in Libya, the President is in violation of the War Powers Act, he can only stay there 90 days at his word, we’re beyond that,” Hagee said, “Congressmen are suing him trying to get him to stop. This is the actual work, if you will, of a dictator:”

There is no way this won’t work!  Especially with Rick Perry letting Jesus take the wheel…  Unless, of course, all prayer does is make the person praying feel better about messed up shit.  Then, maybe it’s more likely to work out more like Rick Perry’s attempt to stop the drought in Texas with a big prayer.

NYT – AUSTIN, Tex. — In April, as Texas reeled from wildfires and a drought, Gov. Rick Perry sought assistance from the federal government, but also from a higher power. He asked the state to pray for rain, issuing an official proclamation that “I, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.”

And how did that go, Ricky?

 

Uh oh…

And the moral of the story is, go ahead and pray if you’d like.  It makes many people feel better about their lot in life.  Just don’t expect an answer.  From the Friendly Atheist, a nice image that tells the truth of the matter, and is a nice response to “The Response”.  If you want to affect change in the government, praying won’t solve a thing:

And here’s a direct response from me:

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