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ANN 15: Imprecatory Prayer

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2009

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Southern Baptist Reverend Wiley Drake's interpretation of the modern relevance and usefulness of imprecatory prayer.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back again for another edition of Atheist News Network.

0:13.6

Now this one is the first podcast since both me and Charlie were stricken down with the

0:19.1

swine flu.

0:20.1

Yeah, I think this article reveals why we were both stricken down.

0:25.0

Yes, yes, I'm pretty sure this is exactly the reason why and interestingly enough

0:30.0

this article trumped the other articles we were looking to talk about Charlie found this one and both of us just started going okay. This is just fruity and decided to go with it

0:39.9

Yeah, this one. It, this pastor named Wiley Drake.

0:45.0

Great name on that.

0:48.0

That's fantastic.

0:50.0

He was apparently like a vice president in the Southern Baptist Convention, but he says he wants to bring back in prequatory prayer.

0:58.0

And I had to look this up.

1:00.0

And prequatory means like a curse or bringing down evil on someone.

1:03.2

Yeah, I had to look it up to him like what the hell is a prequatory prayer?

1:07.7

I guess it originates from Psalm 35 where David has all these enemies and he's praying to God that he will kill his enemies basically.

1:18.0

Yeah, and it's kind of interesting, especially that you bring up David because we've discussed this

1:23.8

before and you and I look on the Bible as just Bronze Age mythology and morals this

1:30.0

is basically a tribal people going around and this is their thoughts and their

1:34.8

belief systems and oddly enough I believe this guy should be what we should follow

1:41.4

in this day and age?

1:44.0

Well I think what's it really interesting, this guy who's a Christian believes that a book of essentially

1:51.9

the Jewish Bible

1:53.5

old testament trumps the words of Jesus right

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