You simply ARE a sad, sad, little person. Besides, God willed that Bush should pray; who in the name of Calvin are you to object?
If God willed the suffering in N.O. - why pray to begin with?
I object to Bush's comment, not in the name of Calvin, but on the basis of our Constitution. I object to Bush calling for prayer not because people shouldn't pray or pray for those who suffer because of the hurricane - but because, by virtue of his role and the religious diversity that we see in the U.S. now and will see increasingly in the future - I think it is incautious of any president to call for religious activity.
Even those defending his call for prayer here do so on the basis of his call to pray being open to interpretation - prayer to wind, to Allah, to whatever. Isn't that sycretism? Isn't that an erection of a verbal statue of an unknown god?
You can take it - I'll leave it. Thanks but no thanks.