Thoughts on this prayer?

[DanH]

PRAYER GIVEN BEFORE THE KANSAS STATE LEGISLATURE


by Pastor Joe Wright, Central Christian Church, Wichita, KS


Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance.

We know that Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil "good" but that is exactly what we've done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess, Father, that we have ridiculed the absolute Truth of Your Word and called it "moral pluralism".

We have worshipped other gods and called it "multi-culturalism"

We have exploited the poor and called it "the lottery".

We have neglected the needy and called it "self-preservation"

We have rewarded laziness and called it "welfare"

We have killed our unborn and called it "choice".

We have shot abortionists and called it "justifiable".

Father, we have neglected to discipline our children and called it "building esteem".

We have abused power and called it "political savvy".

We have coveted our neighbors possessions and called it "ambition".

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it "freedom of expression"

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our Fore-fathers and called it "enlightenment"

Search us, O God, and know our hearts today - Try us and see if there be any wicked way in us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by You to govern this great State. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your Will. I ask it in the Name of Your Son, the Living Saviour, Jesus Christ. -Amen

[Wesley Dodds]

We have neglected the needy and called it "self-preservation"

We have rewarded laziness and called it "welfare"

We have cognitive dissonance and call it "conservatism".

[Puma]

PRAYER GIVEN BEFORE THE KANSAS STATE LEGISLATURE

Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by You to govern this great State. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your Will.

we have legislators who govern by Divine right in this country? how medieval

[Mike Smash!]

I've heard this speech and way out of line and way to sectarian for the state legislature, especially with the theocratic, anti-gay, culture war stuff...

I'm not too fond of official prayers before government bodies (after all, if you want to pray, do it yourself, no one's stopping you), but this one is just cartoonishly bad.

[Noah Johnson]

We have recycled the same junk since 1996 and called it "email".

Is this thing really new to anyone?

[JeffreyWKramer]

My thoughts? It's a perfect example of why religion should be absolutely eliminated from matters of state. I know it has a long tradition, but really, prayer belongs in sessions of legislature the way pedophiles belong in kindergartens.

[BlairH]

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Don't politicise God.

[Grazzt]

We have a thing called that allows people to see verification of things that they received in their e-mail, and called it Snopes. (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/wright.htm)

While the prayer you mention is close, its incomplete, the following lines are missing:

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle.

[Spike-X]

We have written a simple-minded political diatribe and called it a prayer.

[Rachel Grey]

PWe have worshipped other gods and called it "multi-culturalism"


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DRAGOOOOOOON SLAAAAAAAVE!

[Brian Cronin]

Not a big fan of the "here is something, I offer no commentary of my own, you all do the work" type of threads.

-Brian