…as long as it’s Christian, but we knew that’s what they really meant.

Senate Opens with Hindu Prayer, Christian Protest

This morning, for the first time in our nation’s history, the US Senate opened with a prayer from a Hindu chaplain. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) – one of only 2 Senators present – managed to behave, but not some in the gallery:

Three Christian protestors were removed from the U.S. Senate chamber’s observation gallery Thursday when they disrupted the morning prayer — being delivered for the first time in history by a Hindu chaplain.

The three unidentified protestors began praying loudly when Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain from Nevada, started praying. The demonstrators prayed for forgiveness from Jesus Christ for “betraying” the Christian tradition.

So, it’s just three fringe whackos, right? Nobody could be supporting them, right?

Wrong. But there were some sane people out there, too.

Allahpundit at Hot Air:

Classy: “Lord Jesus, forgive us, father, for allowing the prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight.” There’s no report of them being linked to any organization but the AFA encouraged its members earlier this week to e-mail Congress and express their disappointment. Money quote:

Barton says given the fact that Hindus are a tiny constituency of the American public, he questions the motivation of Senate leaders. “This is not a religion that has produced great things in the world,” he observes.

From Chad Groening at OneNewsNow:

Pro-Israel ministry outraged over Hindu prayer in Senate

Jan Markell of Olive Tree Ministries says she’s absolutely outraged that Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed was pegged to deliver the opening prayer of the U.S. Senate this morning. The director of the pro-Israel ministry is concerned about the consequences of allowing someone to open the day’s business in the Senate by referencing Hindu scriptures and praying to over 300 million gods.

DallasNews Religion apparently hadn’t gotten the IOKIYAC memo, or just wanted to snark about it (good on them):

I wonder: What would the reaction have been if Muslim protesters had done something like this while a Christian minisiter was delivering a prayer in the Senate?

Ruins of Empire is pithy and unimpressed with the behavior of the protesters.

Pop Culture gets it, with a First Amendment citation for the short-bus riders in the political blogosphere – like the non-sequitur-flinging Against Hillary.

Dr. Pat McEwen, as cited in other articles above, is a loon:

Theology has moved from the church house onto the floor of the United States Senate, and has been arrested.

Apparently an entire field of human speculation was thrown into paddy-wagons and hauled down West Capitol Street. Whodathunkit??

I’ll end it, because there’s lots more good, bad, and ugly out there than I could keep track of. Plus, my motivation is shot after seeing this person, whose religion has instilled such fear that – forget the Hindu prayer, a pun from Underdog gave her trouble. Lady, I’ll tell you right now that if your god was so jealous, there would be a smoking crater where George W. Bush is standing for presuming to speak in his/her/its name so many times. The god you describes is not holy, it (if it or any other god existed) would be frighteningly insane.

Update: Yes, that’s harsh. But when someone looks at Underdog and feel that what they are seeing offends what they feel is the fundamental force that controls the universe, there’s a problem there somewhere.

Posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2007, at 15:49 [Fundamental Problems, Just Sayin', The Fantasy-Based Community].
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