Prayer Doesn't Require Presidential Endorsement

Bathsheeba besides bing dyslexic i'm a horrible typist lol

nicely written. a broken and contrite heart and spirit are just a few of the many wisdoms in the 51st psalm ..my personal favorite..it was Davids prayer after the batheba humaness

Right on, Cal! There are now many people who would rather celebrate the day as the DAY OF REASON rather than as the DAY OF PRAYER. A prayer is for people who decides WHEN TO PRAY not as what the President tells them to do.

You have quoted correctly verses from the Bible that say prayer should not be done publicly.

"The question that should be asked is: why would God bless a people who tolerate so many things God finds intolerable? Maybe we should all be praying about those things...in our closets and on our knees."

I know that everybody is a authority on Gods' Will, on what God likes and does not like, on what he tolerates and what is not tolerable to Him. They are all swinging at the wind. As is Mr. Thomas.

There is no knowing that God does not accept and love all, regardless. There is nothing that validates that God despises anything or anyone. Reason and an open heart both may concur that God, if anything, does love all and damns nothing. It is us that live in the world of both love and hate, 'right' and 'wrong', 'good' and 'evil', day and night, male and female, christian and hindu and muslim and buddhist and pagan and atheist. We tolerate, and more often we are intolerant.

I am thankful, Lord, that you have removed, for the time being at least, evangelicals from important and influential offices. They were unable to lead without prejudice and were not equal to the task, I am sorry to say. I pray that this truth may allow deep reflection on their part, and an evolution of evangelical thinking and a maturation of the evangelical heart toward allowance of other faiths, and that greater good may be done by them and all lovers of God in the future as a result.

"Those who wish to pray don't need the endorsement of a president; not when they have God."

Correct. Neither should the endorsement of a presidential candidate require that he be a pray-er.

"Prayer Doesn't Require Presidential Endorsement"

Ah, *now* you say it, ....why, it's almost as if you've either learned something, Cal, or, another party were in office and you intend to call them 'Godless' later for not not making a sufficient and sufficiently-sectarian display of public piety.

"Maybe we should all be praying about those things...in our closets and on our knees."

Pray whatever you want, in your closet, but keep it private and don't forget to make sure the military keeps it quiet too. Really shameful to hear what's been going on in the Pentagon and Air Force Academy.

Perhaps the fact that the people making the outcry against President Obama are the same folks that have been routinely ignoring Jesus' instructions on prayer for many years.

A day of prayer seems a good idea, and if someone objects to prayer, then they are welcome to abstain. But perhaps a day of repentance might be an even better idea.