Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Thu Aug 7, 2008 6:01 AM
Sir; you can't stop people from praying even when it does no good. The doomed man prays beside the saved and the saved lives to testify on the power of prayer. I have seen prayer, and no doubt, have seen miracles. But your little cute, non sense article misses the point... It is; that the people are being pushed into older forms of relationship by the failure of our society. Mr. Obama says the bitter people are clinging to their guns and religion. They are seeking a form of relationship that once worked, a sort of feeling that once worked, turning inward, becoming more parochial, and trying to hang on to the last vestiges of community. You do not undertand what a complete repudiation this is of the age of reason and enlightenment, that people should retreat into ritual, prayer, mumbo jumbo, magic, fate, and hand holding when the roof is caving it.. When the whole economic sector counts on luck, or the president can lead us into war with little more than his faith in God and good fortune to justify his actions then something is seriously wrong with your society. It is not that people should not be free to believe. Everyone should believe. But when God hisself can't stop the bishops and preachers from making a market place of the house of God, then the battle is lost. When there is no political plum at the end of belief, when priests stop preaching politics with faith, when the money goes out of churches, and the humanity, the charity, and the dignity return; I will be there. Governments have got to quit relying upon God to save their bacon. They have to learn to act responsibly, and adapt to the future. Capital has got to quit relying upon the endless gullibility of the market to save their fortunes. And churches have got to get out of government, or both will be swept away together.
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