Governor of Georgia prays for rain

[Steven]

It's hilarious but also disturbing that this kind of nonsense exists even at the higher levels of government.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2007/11/07/droughtpray_1108.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Rather than addressing the overdevelopment issues that lie at the heart of the problem, they're going to spend their time and money bringing in people for a big prayer meeting to make it rain.

There's more detail in this article in the Manitoban: http://www.themanitoban.com/2007-2008/1114/118.Sprawling.out.of.control.php

[brian]

This is so pathetic on so many levels.  Bad city planning, a governor with no solution resorting to prayer, and idiots lining up behind him.

[trevor]

Wow.  I'm pretty sure a Governor's office sending out letters asking citizens to pray goes against the constitution's freedom of religion.  While I somehow doubt it's going to cause a big stir, especially with the Daily Show/Colbert Report off the air at the moment, it really should.  This is the kind of stuff that needs to stop: not the praying in general, but a public request to pray, and ignorance of the real issues.

[Steven]

I can recall that after 9/11, while the governments of the U.S. and maybe Britain called for a "national day of prayer", the Canadian government called for a "national day of mourning". There were many groups outraged of course, after all we have a "Christian majority" and the country was "founded on Christian beliefs" . Regular old mourning wasn't good enough apparently for the religiots. Anyways, I was quite happy that Canada actually respected our constitution unlike some other countries....Funny how they will defend some constitutional rights to the death (e.g. right to bear arms) but they're a little more wishy-washy with others (e.g. separation of church and state). Especially for Christians.....you would think they would feel obliged to accept the whole thing just like they do with the bible.

[brian]

Especially for Christians.....you would think they would feel obliged to accept the whole thing just like they do with the bible.

I hope that's sarcasm.  I seem to recall quite a few content to ignore the part about not killing...

[Steven]

Especially for Christians.....you would think they would feel obliged to accept the whole thing just like they do with the bible.

I hope that's sarcasm.  I seem to recall quite a few content to ignore the part about not killing...

T'was.....I should've put a  after it

[Brennan]

At least he's not jumping around performing some kind of ritual, hell people pray for all kinds of random crap. It’s a superstition that society.


Praying is a superstition that society still believes brings results. Hell, people pray for all kinds of crap and justify its ineffectiveness to produce results. At least he is not dancing around trying to perform some ritual, which is technically just as dumb but would have been a lot more amusing.

[Ares]

This was a while ago now, does anyone remember if it actually rained?

[brian]

It probably did rain eventually.  Of course, some people would give the governor all the credit, although he has no control over the rain.  He could have done nothing, or some dancing ritual and it would have been equally (in?)effective

[trevor]

Just so you guys know, I'm praying for snow today.

[Ares]

Hmm maybe they even planned the praying at a time when meteorologist were predicting rain. 

And it might just snow now! Can't wait to find out 

[january]

Work has been so dead lately, I asked the bartender to sacrifice a goat so we'd get more customers. I think the governor needs to step up his game, kick it old school, throw some virgins in a swamp. Since when did rituals get so lazy and vanilla?

[Steven]

Yes, a good old-fashioned virgin sacrifice would hit the spot right about now......