Pathetic
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/ts_alt_afp/usreligionpovertyenergyoil
A selection:
"Prayer is the answer to every problem in life... We call on God to intervene in the lives of the selfish, greedy people who are keeping these prices high," Twyman said on the gas station forecourt in a neighborhood of Washington that, like many of its residents, has seen better days.
"Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that you are able, that you have all the power in the world," he prayed, before former beauty queen Rashida Jolley led the group in a modified version of the spiritual, "We Shall Overcome".
This is pathetic. "Yo, god, gas costs too much!". Why bother voting for someone who isn't in the pocket of oil companies, when you can whine to some deity who, obviously, can't see far enough ahead to wave a magic wand and stop prices from going up in the first place? Wait... Oh, right, duh.
Anyway. Dag Hammarskjold wrote something about just this sort of thing some decades ago:
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
A selection:
"Prayer is the answer to every problem in life... We call on God to intervene in the lives of the selfish, greedy people who are keeping these prices high," Twyman said on the gas station forecourt in a neighborhood of Washington that, like many of its residents, has seen better days.
"Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that you are able, that you have all the power in the world," he prayed, before former beauty queen Rashida Jolley led the group in a modified version of the spiritual, "We Shall Overcome".
This is pathetic. "Yo, god, gas costs too much!". Why bother voting for someone who isn't in the pocket of oil companies, when you can whine to some deity who, obviously, can't see far enough ahead to wave a magic wand and stop prices from going up in the first place? Wait... Oh, right, duh.
Anyway. Dag Hammarskjold wrote something about just this sort of thing some decades ago:
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."