NASCAR prayer (video)

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[Video Link] A pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville Tennessee, on July 23, 2011. "We want to thank you, Lord, for these mighty machines.... Lord I want to thank you for my smokin' hot wife.... Boogity Boogity Boogity. Amen." (via Tabitha Hale on Google+)

• [maxipad505]

  this is a mockery of a mockery of a mockery and off into forever

  • [Summer Seale]

    It’s a mockery of a sham. of a mockery of a mockery of a sham!

    (I think that was the line from Bananas, but I can’t remember exactly…) =)

• [Mark_Frauenfelder]

  This is the only honest preacher I’ve ever seen.

  • [Robert Avery]

    honestly stupid

• [amanicdroid]

  Good to see someone who takes prayer less seriously than me. That guy is HILARIOUS!

• [Pablo Defendini]

  hm, product placement in a prayer. smart move.

• [Mike Greco]

  I like to think of Jesus, like, with giant eagles wings, and singin’ lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd, with like, an angel band, and I’m in the front row and I’m hammered drunk!

• [Graham Martin]

  Little baby Jesus.

• [Sagodjur]

  As if we needed any more proof that Christianity in America is a culture rather than a religion…

• [Curtis Goodman]

  it’s a travesty! a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham!

• [thunderhammer]

  The God that most people believe in is usually just a reflection of themselves (or how they see themselves).  Pat Robertson worships a God who is bitter and spiteful.  Most of the religious women that I’ve known believe that God is nurturing and forgiving – except for the ones who were not themselves nurturing and forgiving.  This pastor believes that God is lighthearted and brand-loyal.  I can imagine that if my grandfather were watching this he would say something like “what a jackass, God is very serious and doesn’t like joking around.”  My grandfather was a serious man, never known to joke around…

  • [babylost]

    my God thinks your comment is awesome.  I too approve of it.

• [TraverJ]

  The Wife – http://i.imgur.com/2Sxr3.jpg

  • [David Horton]

    Smokin hot!

• [Navin_Johnson]

  Isn’t the “smokin’ hot wife” borrowed from Taladega Nights?  iirc.

• [Matthew]

  How much does it cost to buy advertisements within a prayer?

  • [Jacob Ewing]

    Three Hail Marys and a sacrifice.  Just watch out for any eternal damnation clauses.

• [Casper96]

  I’m quite sure that line is meant as an homage to Talladega Nights, not as a ripoff. This is funny stuff, and I approve of the absence of pretense in this prayer. 

• [Cowicide]

  JESUS BUILT MY HOTROD

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuk62WtK4sk

  find the extended version somewhere after that… hahaha

• [ackpht]

  That’s hilarious. I take the message as “life is good for you- be thankful”. Would my southern-baptist grandmother have approved of the context? No, but she would have kept any criticism to herself- because she was taught that in addition to humility and compassion and self-reliance, tolerance is a virtue.

• [scifijazznik]

  Jesus wept.

• [JoshP]

  Praise Jesus and pass the ammunition?? Why don’t I have a problem with this…
    @above.. well it starts with indulgences and ends with a new reformation.

• [jowlsey]

  This prayer brought to you by BlamCo. Official corporate sponsor of the Jebus.

• [Brian Easton]

  The prayer seems appropriate to the venue. Well done.

• [Charles Hall]

  Dear 8 pound 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus…

• [Donald Petersen]

  If you really must Boogity Boogity Boogity, it may as well be in Jesus’ name.

• [humanresource]

  Shouldn’t Henry Ford get a little credit for Ford? No? I guess its not that big a deal.
  Boogity boogity.

• [angryhippo]

  Why wouldn’t God have the best and most forgiving sense of humor?

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    If whomever you’re worshiping isn’t nicer than you, it’s definitely time to change deities.

• [Kerns Lane]

   Mmmm…while I approve of the overall use of humor in prayer, it is sad that product placement can make its way into any sort of semi-religious, sacred invocation…..which I why I avoid it altogether!

• [Deidzoeb]

  Why not? Church of NASCAR already has St. Dale.