Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Prayer, Iraq, and a Blog

Julia Duin at the Washington Times blogged today about the BPP, or Bagdad Prayer Patrol, a website that encourages people (including myself) to spend a minute or two a day remembering and praying for everything going on over there. You can also leave comments/send emails/post updates about friends and family arrived safely home, etc. It's a nice way to send encouragement to the troops; there's also a really cool section with field reports and updates from professional reporters, etc. For the number of people who just complain about the war overseas, its nice to see a group focusing their energy in a positive way.

Anyhow, Julia's coverage had one comment this morning when I first looked at it, and now she has 50 or so. Including a LONG one in German, which is kind of fun in a cryptic way. As a student of blogs, it's interesting to me the kind of feedback posts with different attitudes (positive vs. negative, faith oriented vs. politically oriented, etc.) will incur. If you care to look over the whole article (it's less than a page long) to get a sense of the tone she uses, the link is here. Additionally, I found her concluding points rather interesting... but I won't spoil it by telling you what they are here.

4 comments:

_J_ said...

"For the number of people who just complain about the war overseas, its nice to see a group focusing their energy in a positive way."

I am glad that you used "positive" instead of "useful".

Lady Enide said...

I just know the crowd I'm working too well.

Although there are certain facets of the site which might well be deemed useful. Such as the reports from field journalists and on-site photographers which contain very up-to-date, specific information. You might not know this, but the sheer reliability of the information exchange websites such as this provides serves more and more to give concerned families peace of mind, to bring encouragement to soldiers far from home. The morale boost in and of itself can be considered useful.

Lady Enide said...

Also, "Our troops are doing an outstanding job, but even the military experts are saying that the reason things are going well is because the Iraqis had a change of heart. Instead of fighting against us, they are now fighting with us against Al Qaeda. I would like to suggest that changing hearts is what prayer is all about, and that the Baghdad Prayer Patrol is having a significant influence on the outcome of this conflict." --guy who runs the BPP

_J_ said...

"I would like to suggest that changing hearts is what prayer is all about, and that the Baghdad Prayer Patrol is having a significant influence on the outcome of this conflict."

I would like to suggest that my recent purchase of Rifftrax has caused an increase amount of enjoyment in my life, so increasing the universal quotient of joy on the Marblak scale of transcendental joy of universals. As a result the knejak index of happiness, influenced by the Marblak scale of transcendtal joy, has experienced an upturn in the behoovement almak of zepherothial. The result is that things are going slightly better in Iraq.

I can make unverifiable claims too!