As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will call on a higher power.
He will join lawmakers and ministers on the steps of the state Capitol to pray for rain.
While public prayer vigils might raise eyebrows in other parts of the nation, they are mostly shrugged off in the Bible Belt, where turning to the heavens for help is common and sometimes even politically expedient.
The foolish lead the ignorant. It’s what American politics is all about.
Its interesting to note that personal religious beliefs are considered fair game for ridicule here on Dvorak…except, don’t even think of touching anything covered under the sacred and religious tenets of PC.
If you don’t wish to believe, fine, just keep your superiority-complex anxieties and anti-faith fears to yourself and eventually, to your own death bed.
I’d pray for all of you who need it but, as you say, what would be the point? You’ve chosen the merciless world system as your god and don’t need prayer.
If there is a God, he seems to hold a lot of Haliburton stock.
>>As long as religious folk… continue to waste their efforts by
>>praying, instead of actually doing something useful, we
>>atheists are free to mock them.
Aw, give it up, dude. The governor as already “ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help.” What other “useful” things would you like him to do in his capacity as governor?
You just can’t stand the fact that some people also have a spiritual belief in a power greater than themselves. You can’t let it go with opposing creationism in schools and 10 Commandments in the courthouse. Any hint that someone puts faith in something you don’t understand is probable cause for a stoning.
“Aw, give it up, dude. The governor as already “ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help.” What other “useful” things would you like him to do in his capacity as governor?”
Who said anything about just the governor doing something? Dude, there are far more people praying than just the governor. It’s amazing what you could accomplish if you took all the fool hearty time spent on religion and focussed it towards something else, like, oh, perhaps education on saving water.
You’re right, I can’t stand the fact that some people have a spiritual belief in a greater power, because it’s all based on superstitious nonsense, without a single credible piece of evidence to back it all up. And religious folk are consistently among the biggest hypocrites around, preaching love and tolerance, yet blowing up abortion clinics and emailing death threats to certain judges who rule that creationism will not be taught in science class, because it’s (rightly so) not a science.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes about religion, from Bertrand Russell:
“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
>>You’re right, I can’t stand the fact that some people have a
>>spiritual belief in a greater power, because it’s all based
>>on superstitious nonsense, without a single credible piece
>>of evidence to back it all up.
Try and control your anger. Jealousy is very unbecoming.
#36, huh? What do I have to be jealous of? Wasting my life worshipping a fairy tale?
It does make sense to pray to the man in the sky for rain, as that is where rain comes from (the sky). Of course the only problem being what if there is no man in the sky who loves us and watches out for us and brings us rain?
Mayhaps a bit of engineering and even the most backwards of tribes understood how to dig an irrigation trench to move water from where it was to where it wasn’t.
Sonny do#1 build more resevoirs and interconnect them and pipe in water, dig wells and desalinate sea water, you’ve got a nuke plant on the savannah river and the Atlantic ocean on your coast, or you could pray to your gods.
Of course from the size of the water leak at the govenor’s mansion (15 thousand Gal.per.month) you might need a plumber more than a diety.
Georgia where the insane pay the insane to lead them into the insane.
It’s raining in Georgia.
The problem is not with prayer, but with the governor including a “pray for rain” event as part of his official duties. That damned First Amendment to the Constitution that insists we keep church and state separate is so inconvenient for people of faith.
The Governor should go to church on Sunday and pray for rain, on his own free time, not on the time when he is supposed to be working for the taxpayers.
I just want to point out that it rained in Georgia — even though it was not forecast.
http://tinyurl.com/ypcs4j
If you genuinely worship in the church of objectivity, as many of you claim, shouldn’t you consider this?
#41, nope, any rational person would not consider this. Claiming that god caused the rain to fall because of praying has about as much validity as me claiming that my bear repellent rock works because you don’t see any bears around my house.