A Prayer Request emnating from a Soldier family in USA for their
son in Iraq when sent to a Preacher, it was turned down as an
occult and is forbidden - what is the situation under these
circumstances please.?
2007-02-08 19:00:43 · 8 answers · asked by ardneham2002 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How absurd. How can such a genuine request be construed as a chain letter. For me this jut serves to highlight the absolute hypocrisy of manypeople who claim to be religious. Surely all preachers in America should be praying for their boys in Iraq. I am totally opposed to war and don't agree with the Iraq situation however I still would be willing to pray for them (if praying were my thing).
2007-02-08 19:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by LillyB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is simply a prayer request, then a chain of prayer is good (Like many others I have a prayer support network) If the letter implies special blessings for those who pray in the way requested, or misfortune for not doing so, then it is dangerous.
I would just pass on the prayer without the verbiage.
2007-02-09 03:41:26 · answer #2 · answered by alan h 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure what the situation is, but I think when you're looking at e-mailed requests you should be careful. A lot of times, they are bunk .... maybe that's what happened.
Now if someone asked for a prayer, and then at then end added something like, "If you don't send this to at least 10 people than you are cruel and will suffer for it" then yeah ... that's somewhat of a chain letter.
2007-02-09 03:07:22 · answer #3 · answered by Angry Moogle 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chain letters just clog up the servers with spam (unsolicited mail), so yes it should be stopped.
The dark side of these things comes when gullible folks around the world just forwarding them without thinking for fear of bringing "bad luck" on themselves. Plain superstitious nonsense!
2007-02-09 03:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bart S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as the prayer request doesn't threaten anyone in any way, there is nothing wrong with it.
2007-02-10 08:33:26 · answer #5 · answered by FIONA M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chain letter of this sort is quite legal. The only sort of chain letter which could run afoul of the law is one which asks for money.
2007-02-09 03:07:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if by "occult" they mean "asking a magical being to change circumstances", they're correct.
2007-02-09 03:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by gomez_leovinus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's right your prayers have ended the war! get real!
2007-02-09 03:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋