# "Warriors of Prayer" will protect DC 4th of July...Wah?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068 "2002-07-02T18:05:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/21 "2002-07-02T20:37:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Jodi \*
> \*\*See, I don’t care if they want to go down to the mall and pray – knock yourselves out. The thing I don’t get is this: The _End-times_ Handmaidens and Servants? Preparing for the end of the world? But simultaneously celebrating their _27th_ anniversary?
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> The world’s going to end tomorrow . . . or the day after or the day after that . . . . \*\*
According to the leader of the End-time Handmaidens, it was supposed to end [in](http://www.adventist.org/99annualcouncil/gallagher1.html) [2000](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/succeed_fail8.html#Handmaidens). I’m guessing they don’t discuss that one much anymore. After checking their [website](http://www.eth-s.org/index.htm), it seems like more of a “real soon now” type thing.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/22 "2002-07-02T23:02:15Z")
I’d already thought of praying.
It works.
Does it harm anyone?
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/23 "2002-07-02T23:22:39Z")
No, praying in your home or in your church is a fine, praise-worthy act.
BUT…
when a pack of millenarian weirdos get a wild hair to come on over to Dc and clog up an already hectic place with their " Whee! We’re praying, look at us, we’re special holy warriors sent by God to preach at you godless heathen," then I tend to get cranky.
Ok, cranki_er_.
To the Handjobs and Serfucks…Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/24 "2002-07-02T23:33:21Z")
Really, how is this any different from various protest marches you get?
Look, until these people are actually THERE, causing a problem, I think we’re jumping the gun a bit. Yeah, the whole “end times are NOW!” thing is way nutty, but what are you gonna do?
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### Author:  [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/25 "2002-07-03T00:33:09Z")
Actually, I kind of **like** concentrating all the weirdo’s and nutjobs in DC: it gets them out of the rest of the country’s hair for awhile.
So, to all of you living in the Beltway–kudo’s! We appreciate your sacrifices on our behalf. Heh heh… 😉
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/26 "2002-07-03T01:13:15Z")
It sounds like fun - a few years back, someone brought a bunch of well-scrubbed young Christians to SF to publically (Union Sq) pray for the conversion of the local Soddomites. Might have been Phelps - that sort of moron, at least.
They were met by the “Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence” and friends.
Great theater on the streets of SF!
(Guin, you don’t want to know)
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/27 "2002-07-03T02:45:51Z")
I’ve heard of them. Pathetic and disrespectful, if you ask me.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/28 "2002-07-03T02:50:01Z")
When i saw this on the news, i misread it as “Warriors of Prayer will be providing **security** for the 4th in D.C.” My second thought was "if i’m listening to the celebration and they start playing ‘sympathy for the devil’ over the loudspeakers, i’m sooooo outta here 🙂 "
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/29 "2002-07-03T03:01:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*
> \*\*I’ve heard of them. Pathetic and disrespectful, if you ask me. \*\*
I’ll be sure to mention that to Sister Boom Boom, next time we meet…
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/30 "2002-07-03T03:08:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by gobear \*
> \*\*" \*Whee! We’re praying, look at us, we’re special holy warriors sent by God to preach at you godless heathen," \*
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> \*\*
Why does this sound like a Christian Bible School cheer?
It lacks the " We’re here. We’re Queer!" panache.
I have no problem with prayer, it is the large demostrative manner that their way is the best way that irks me. Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers. These blowhards who are just begging for a terrorist to blow something up just to smite them in the old fashion Old Testament manner.
Achmed: (voice of Abu from Simpsons)" Holy Jihad, it’s the Handmaidens and Servants! I cannot possibly blow up the Washington Monument today for my belief inthe all powerful Allah is no match for their infidel God. Instead, since I have already rented this Uhaul loaded with a billion pounds of fire crackers bought legally at Kmart because I hate Martha Stewart with the flames of a thousand suns. I have decided to blow up these Evangelicals church. What a bunch of fucknuckles. Praise Allah and pass the ammo."
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### Author:  [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/31 "2002-07-03T03:18:35Z")
("clink,clink,clink…) “Warr-iors, come out to pray-ay…Wariors, come out to PRAY-AY…”😃
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### Author:  [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/32 "2002-07-03T03:32:11Z")
Can you dig it, suckers?
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### Author:  [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/33 "2002-07-03T03:40:08Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \*
> \*\*[Foxnews](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56744,00.html)
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> I wish I knew where these ‘warriors’ were staying whilst in DC, Then we could organize the Pagan, Wiccans, and Gay dopers ( and anyone else who would be up for some ’ going to hell in a hand basket’ kinda fun. \*\*
The Pagans. The Wiccans. The Gay Dopers. The Furies. The Riffs. The Lizzies. Will the Warriors make it back to Coney?
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/34 "2002-07-03T14:08:40Z")
Sadly, I got **Road Rashs** reference. There was an hour plus I am never getting back…
Happly, I forgot the name of that butt awful film…
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/35 "2002-07-03T14:09:48Z")
Here’s how I see it. Sept. 11, then all the terrorist warnings since then have scared people, a lot. And, when we’re scared, one of our first instincts is to act in some way so that what we’re scared of won’t be threatening anymore, either by stopping it, or running away from it. Unfortunately, with this, there’s nowhere to run, and there’s not much we as individuals can do. The average person isn’t going to be able to break up an al-Qaeda cell, or find and disarm a bomb they planted. But, if you’re a religious person, who believes in the power of petitionary prayer, there is something you can do, and the “Warriors” are going to do it.
I don’t think that these Warriors of Prayer are going to do any good, but they won’t really do any harm either, And, if nothing else, at least it will give them some peace of mind.
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/36 "2002-07-03T14:48:26Z")
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> Sadly, I got Road Rashs reference. There was an hour plus I am never getting back…
> Happly, I forgot the name of that butt awful film…
It will come as a huge surprise, I’m sure, that the movie is called _The Warriors_.
As a New Yorker, that movie made me laugh so hard I nearly turned my ribs to shrapnel.
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/37 "2002-07-03T14:56:04Z")
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> As a New Yorker, that movie made me laugh so hard I nearly turned my ribs to shrapnel.
What? Do you mean that NYC _doesn’t_ have street gangs with matching uniforms and campy, yet vaguely menacing, themes, as in the baseball gang?
Color me disillusioned. 😃
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/38 "2002-07-03T15:40:34Z")
My God, how I loved that movie.
Road Rash, That is one of the greatest references I have ever seen, and I am fuming that I didnt think of it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/39 "2002-07-03T15:56:53Z")
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> _Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \*
> \*\* But these dipwads from Handmaidens and Servants \* think that a mass meeting in DC to pray for safety will keep terrorists from a further attack are living in a serious state of delusionment._
Oh… so I guess you have it all figured out then and that there’s no possible chance that their prayers could help in any way because you’re absolutely positive their g-d doesn’t exist.
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Not agreeing with what someone believes is one thing. Hell, I personally don’t think their view is right either. However, coming out and saying that they’re “deluded” or “dipwads” because of what they believe… well, that’s just stupid.
Who’s to say that their g-d does or does not exist, and that their prayers to that g-d will or will not help. Not you, nor I, nor anyone else.
Sure, being this public might not have been the best way to go about it. But then again, you don’t have to participate or even acknowledge them. That’s your right, just as it is their right to do what they think is best.
Whether you or I believe that it’s worth it has absolutely nothing to do with them praticing their faith.
Some of you would do well to put down your fundie bashing bats. You look like children.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warriors-of-prayer-will-protect-dc-4th-of-july-wah/117068/40 "2002-07-03T16:04:40Z")
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> _Originally posted by **Guinastasia** _
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> I’ve heard of them. Pathetic and disrespectful, if you ask me.
We didn’t, since it’s obvious you know nothing about them. The Sisters’ charitable works alone are most admirable indeed.
Do you need another stone to cast, dear?
Esprix
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