Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

You would think the wingnuts would have learned their lesson about the power of prayer after Pat Robertson’s prayer death squad misfired and knocked off uber-conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Well, apparently they’re at it again. Just days after Dobson / Focus on the Family lackey Stuart Shepard encouraged his Christian viewers to pray for rain of “biblical proportions” to drown out the Democratic National Convention two minutes into Obama’s acceptance speech, America is watching as millions evacuate amid the threat of Hurricane Gustav, which is looking as though it may rain out the Republican Convention. Scheduled attendees must now choose whether to look really, really bad partying, or go home to their safe little mansions and lay low for a while so there are no embarrassing photos of them living it up while people are drowning (with the exception, of course, of those unfortunate souls who have to evacuate instead of casting their vote for the Birthday Boy).

I wonder if even one of those devout zealots who prayed for everything short of “golf-ball sized hail” will think to themselves, “What have I done? What HAVE I done?” Nope. They’ll chalk it up to coincidence. Divine intervention is only present when it suits them.

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