National Day of Prayer - a damned useless gesture if there ever was one

[PresidentErnestTBass]

Another good post from The Knight Shift blog. Heres an exerpt ...

That's what the National Day of Prayer used to mean: the nation humbling itself and crying to God for His will to be done.

It was not intended to be a platform upon which the nation exalts itself and demands that God allow its own will be done.

I went to the National Day of Prayer's website to see what we're supposed to be praying for today. Starting with the President of the United States and members of Congress, the list of who/what to pray for goes on to mention members of the armed forces, "school authorities", law enforcement agencies, presumably "mainstream" journalists (where the heck are bloggers?!) and families at last.

Now, something that needs to be pointed out here: THERE IS NOT A DAMNED THING IN THIS MISSION PURPOSE THAT HAS TO DO WITH HUMILITY OR FASTING OR REAL PRAYER, AT ALL!!

The "National Day of Prayer" is not an exercise of our freedom to worship and seek out God as we understand Him.

The "National Day of Prayer", rather, is a means of controlling the American people.

I see nothing here but a reassertion of "authority" over the people of this country. As if there were common people and then an elite "priestly caste" of politicians and power-mongers that intercede on our behalf before Almighty God. As if we have no right to discourse with God regarding the state of our national affairs in our life on this Earth.

We're supposed to pray for wisdom for them. But where the Hell do you see it that we are asked to pray to God for wisdom for ourselves?

Long though good read at http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2005/05/national-day-of-prayer-damned-useless.html

[Maat]

1. Well, I agree.

Well ... the way I see it ... it feels like they are trying to BEAT me over the head with their version of conservative extremist Christianity.

It's not working though ... it is just showing Americans how obnoxious they are.

[kliljedahl]

2. We atheists are kinda F*%ked every day

This is just an extra dose


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. President Ernest t bass

that username is priceless

hee hee hee

[panzerfaust]

4. Duuuhh: That is the sole point of organized religion

The "National Day of Prayer", rather, is a means of controlling the American people.
I see nothing here but a reassertion of "authority" over the people of this country

Good. Wake up and smell the bonfires.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Artist (1891)

“Sins" are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be "sinning.
- Friedrich Nietzsche,

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon

"Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and the hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward.
- Edward Abbey

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
- Ferdinand Magellan

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight.
-Mark Twain

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
-Euripides

Those of little faith are of little hatred.
-Eric Hoffer

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson

More people have been killed in the name of God than any other reason.
-George Carlin

And the Founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of His estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God...”
-A Hitler

I don't see any god up here.
-Yuri Gagarin

[JNelson6563]

5. I'll take on pair of working hands

over 1,000 pairs of praying hands any day. :toast:

Julie