The routine seemed pretty standard as far as I could tell: prayer, off-key singing from Xeroxed hymnals, more prayer, verse-by-verse reading around the room, then one final 15-minute prayer where everybody says different shit at the same time.
On Thursday night, the teen's father, told a prayer rally outside the family home in Irving, Texas, that he was still hoping for more explanation as to why his son had been treated the way he was.
Into this heady mix of faith and the support of fellow believers walked Pedro Hernandez, who told the prayer group he had strangled a boy and left the body in a Dumpster, according to Norma Hernandez, his sister, and Tomas Rivera, a leader of the group who said he was present.
- Michelle Bachmann, an actual United States Representative who has been elected by actual people in the real state of Minnesota, told a prayer group of conservatives that 9/11, the seige of the US embassy in Benghazi, and what's going in Libya are judgements from God.
"I don't need to say prayers," she tells her grandson.
Imam Dhari gave a special prayer, telling people to forget their sectarian differences in order to resist the American occupation.
With his team together, J. T. Curtis leads the players in prayer, telling them: "This is not just a football team, not just a school — it's a family.
But this was what I was also told when prayers failed to make their mark: the old "incomprehensibility" routine.
Raja Taufiq Khan, a faith ambassador for the Calderdale area, read Islamic prayers, telling the congregation: "As a member of the Muslim community, I offer my sincere condolences, my heartfelt grief and sorrow for the death of six soldiers who gave their lives for peace in the world".
Ask for prayer requests, and testimonies of prayers answered (telling of victories in Christ).
