Nationalist Day of Prayer
Forgive my poor mood; today is the National Day of Prayer. It sounds like a great idea I suppose, but the results can be horrific. Today is, for all intents and purposes a day to praise the state, to pray for the health of the state, show off your spirituality by publicly praying flowing prayers filled with vain words. I’m still so disturbed by it that I don’t really want to finish writing about it, or really showing it. Worst part is, I’m complaining about myself from a few years back.
Those flags must make Jesus very, very happy.
Glory to the state! Pray for those overseas that kill families and children in the name of our great imperialism! God Bless our nation of death!
Praise God for Death, Doom and the Great US of A!
More flags! Pray for the health of the state! Glory to state!
And lets not forget to use a supposed day of prayer as an opportunity to knock political enemies. Of all the things to criticize Obama for: killing, stealing, etc., it would seem not showing up for a showy prayer would not be very high on the list. But still:
Whoa. Seriously? What's disgusting is judging people's Christianity based on how public their prayers are.
I ran into the same problem at church this past weekend. The announcer reminded the congregation about the National Day of Prayer during the introduction and told everyone to pray for the nation and “our leaders”. I had always assumed that “apolitical” meant no overt statism. Of course, maybe I’m more sensitive to it than most; it probably went right over everyone else’s head.
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No, you are not being overly sensitive. Subtle changes to language are used to get people used to such things.