According to the leader of the End-time Handmaidens, it was supposed to end in 2000. I’m guessing they don’t discuss that one much anymore. After checking their website, it seems like more of a “real soon now” type thing.
I’d already thought of praying.
It works.
Does it harm anyone?
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, crankier.
To the Handjobs and Serfucks…Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here
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?
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… 
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)
I’ve heard of them. Pathetic and disrespectful, if you ask me.
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 
"
I’ll be sure to mention that to Sister Boom Boom, next time we meet…
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."
("clink,clink,clink…) “Warr-iors, come out to pray-ay…Wariors, come out to PRAY-AY…”
Can you dig it, suckers?
The Pagans. The Wiccans. The Gay Dopers. The Furies. The Riffs. The Lizzies. Will the Warriors make it back to Coney?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
<sigh>
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.
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?
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