Thursday, May 07, 2009
National Day of Prayer?
Today is the National Day of Prayer. All across the US folks are gathered in churches, gyms, tents, YMCA's and other venues to pray to the One true God. There have been about 56 presidential NDP proclamations and a White House interfaith service for the past 8. This year, for the first time in eight years, there will be no White House NDP service. The President believes that prayer is private and that's that. Maybe he's tired of "churchy" things like many of my believing friends?Maybe he thought the Bush administration was politicizing prayer for conservative votes? Or maybe his definition of Christian is totally different from the evangelicals who are behind the NDP movement? I have no idea. What I do know is that I've never seen a faster religious 180 in Washington in my life. It's going to be an interesting 4 years for Christ-followers.
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You're right about that, Carlo. The man was in office less than a week when he reversed 8 years of policy on abortion, not only making it easier to obtain one, but making it a government funded entity for Americans overseas who wish to have one. Obama also instantly embraced the climate change community with his radical global warming policy shifts. If this seems unrelated to Obama's faith, it isn't...It seems that climate change is our new national religion, with new followers everyday, many of them just spouting verbatim what they heard "Reverend" Al Gore say the week before. I'm not saying climate change isn't happening, I'm just saying that we should have hard evidence that we are causing it, and that we can even stop it, before spending BILLIONS of dollars researching and propangandizing it. I read that half of the "stimulus package" we just passed was directed at climate change. Okay..off the soapbox. As far as Obama's faith, it doesn't matter as much as people think. Maybe a backlash on Christianity is just the wake-up call the church needs.
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