The Gamut

National Day of Prayer

Yes, given that today is the officially sanctioned day to openly discard Jesus' mandate of Matthew 6:7-8 to pray in private, I thought I would use this opportunity to link to a few of my favorite religious sites.

• Landover Baptist Church
• Jesus' Homepage
• Jesus Dressup
• The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
• Maniacal Laughter's List of Reasons Why God Exists
• A Great Non-Sequitur Cartoon

Now, you may well ask why I seem to be picking on the Christians. After all, don't other religions pray as well? Yes, they do, and they too are misguided. However, living (as I do) in America under the Bush regime; it is Christianity that I am most often repressed by. If I lived in a country ending in the suffix "Stan" or in a nation with an unofficially recognized yet openly enforced religious caste system, I would be railing equally against Islam or Hinduism. For that matter, I also have no love for the Earth religions or Buddhism or Shintu, Seikism, Scientology or any other of mankind's myriad mass delusions.

Prayer, in my opinion is culpability-escapism and intellectual surrender. I abhor it.

But -- for those who disagree -- have at it. Put your nose to the rug, beads, incense or whatever. I don't care. Just don't expect me to join you.

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