Hey all you readers out there: How many of you start meetings at your workplace with a prayer? How many of your employers invite ministers (or rabbis, priests, imams, etc.) to come in and lead employees in prayers? The very thought is likely ludicrous. So why is it par for the course for the U.S. Congress, and many state legislatures, and other governmental bodies to engage in this nonsense of asking for guidance from an imaginary friend who lives in the sky?
If you are a member of a public governmental body, say your prayers at home or in the car before the meeting starts. Or go to your place of worship beforehand. Frankly it is concerning that some in government think they need divine guidance to do their jobs wisely.
This is one of those matters where citizens of other modern western democracies laugh at the backwardness of America when it comes to religion. This is the 21st century, you know.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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