# International House of Prayer.  Hmmmm.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-house-of-prayer-hmmmm/599721>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 15, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-house-of-prayer-hmmmm/599721 "2011-10-15T06:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-house-of-prayer-hmmmm/599721/1 "2011-10-15T06:02:58Z")

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> **[Praying perpetually to save society](https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2011-oct-14-la-me-dominionism-20111013-story.html)**
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> Praying perpetually to save society

I’m not sure what they think they’re accomplishing, but they’ve been trying very hard to accomplish it since 1999.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-house-of-prayer-hmmmm/599721/2 "2011-10-15T08:37:28Z")

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I’m not exactly sure what makes them interesting. As the article says, there are a lot of these things. And quite a lot of people pray about the same things. I don’t really get why this is a story.

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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-house-of-prayer-hmmmm/599721/3 "2011-10-15T08:57:36Z")

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Maybe they should serve pancakes.