Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary's wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers's "We're Gonna Make It" as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry -- union assemblers, executives, car salesmen -- gathered six deep around the altar to have their foreheads anointed with consecrated oil.
While Congress debated aid to the foundering Detroit automakers Sunday, many here whose future hinges on the decision turned to prayer.
Jesus saves ... the SUV?
Praying for a bailout in Detroit 5
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Posted 10:03 PM on 8 Dec 2008
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Pangolin Posted 6:44 pm
08 Dec 2008
It seems to me that creator might get a bit miffed at the extinction of several varieties of marine mammals and some of his best work in birds.
Watch for stray lightning bolts and burning bushes. That goes double in the West.
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amazingdrx Posted 2:17 am
09 Dec 2008
His company Fiber Forge has the technology to stamp the carbon fiber body parts.
If the bail out money bought into this technology, auto workers would stamp out and assemble carbon instead of steel, and keep their jobs. A miracle worthy of Jesus.
Put the Hypercar up on the altar next sermon. Or maybe just a big screen projection of this website and video explaing the Fiber Forge technology. Just do it rev!
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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archigeek Posted 3:10 am
09 Dec 2008
The mellotron is your friend.
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caniscandida Posted 5:46 am
09 Dec 2008
It is nice that the evangelicals of this bishop's congregation, and even more regularly the Catholics of Corpus Christi Church, ally themselves with good progressive causes, in this case looking after members of the working class who are affected by auto-industry lay-offs.
BUT, that does not entitle them to praise and encourage an earth-destroying habit.
Pangolin expresses well the meaning of their plain abandonment of their God-given duty, to be good stewards of God's creation.
Also: Archigeek's "My Dog!" is a cute flip of "My God!" But Socrates often swears "By the dog!" (with possibly a reference to the Egyptian jackal-headed deity Anubis) in the dialogues of Plato.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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Pangolin Posted 7:50 pm
09 Dec 2008
On the upside if we could locate some early, pre-deceased, Pentecostals, the spinning in their graves could be tapped as a power source. I'm pretty sure the word "bishop" would have been an insult to them.
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