Um...I'm thinking the wisdom part is a stretch:
Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.(via)The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.
"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.
The group's week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers.
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But if events this week are an attempt by anti-war protesters to remarket their cause, the Marine recruiters in Berkeley tell FOXNews.com that Code Pink's presence outside their office has helped — not hindered — their mission.
"Ironically, it's actually helped us by putting our name out. We're now well known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They've gotten us the publicity that we could've never afforded to pay for ourselves," Wheatcroft told FOXNews.com.
"Just in the last three weeks, 10 people came in looking to apply, looking to become Marine officers, and that's much higher than normal," he said.
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"You know, the thing I can't figure out about Christians is that the first time they pray for something and it doesn't work, don't they figure out that there is no such thing as God? So why are they still at it afterward? Or is the whole "ask anything in my name, and it shall be given unto you" thing not clear?"
I've seen answer to my prayer, so why would I give up praying?
"The Marine Corps recruiters say they got a lot of free publicity as a result of Code Pink's imaginative act of protest (you don't think they're actually witches, do you???? How droll!) but it seems to me Code Pink made their point and got some free pub too. Fox will bite at anything."
Yes, but the point is that they are having the opposite effect of what they want to happen. They don't want more people to join the Marines because they are trying to close the office. Advertising the location of the recruiting office helped get more people to it.
And perhaps, in the past, those who really are Wiccans have seen results for their own rituals. Sure, its not one hundred percent, then again...
You were writing about lowering gas prices through prayer around a week ago.
How's that working for them?
Christians devouring the blood and flesh of their God
Nice.
If you had to fast an hour beforehand, you'd be hungry too ...
Council of Ephesus (451 CE):
And not as common flesh do we receive it; God forbid: nor as of a man sanctified and associated with the Word according to the unity of worth, or as having a divine indwelling, but as truly the Life-giving and very flesh of the Word himself. For he is the Life according to his nature as God, and when he became united to his Flesh, he made it also to be Life-giving, as also he said to us: Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood. For we must not think that it is flesh of a man like us (for how can the flesh of man be life-giving by its own nature?) but as having become truly the very own of him who for us both became and was called Son of Man.
Ephesus ... 431 CE ... sorry.
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