Just Like A Prayer…
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting
the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen!
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Barack Obama Is Not My President
A perfect example of taking one’s own religion and trying to apply to a whole society. It honestly makes me sick – I don’t want any religion, Minister Wright’s or anyone else’s. It’s fine with me if you have your own religion but religion doesn’t belong in government. Also, please do not attempt to share your religion with me, on my property. This will invite a rather rude demand that you leave, as you were not invited.
If a church is involved in politics, I truly believe they should lose their tax-free status.
I can’t for the life of me understand why we continue to bring prayer into government. It doesn’t belong there, just as politics don’t belong in churches. Has no one heard of seperation of church and state?