Prayer under Attack

American Thinker.com ^ | October 9, 2017 | E. W.Jackson

[Kaslin]

When the news broke of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, many Americans did what we have done throughout our history. We offered our thoughts and prayers for the survivors and their families.

To the surprise of many, that is no longer an acceptable response. According to Democrats, we must stop praying and “do something.” No matter that the facts are unknown. No matter that people are still mourning and victims are in shock. Politics and legislation are omnipotent -- the answer to every human tragedy and need.

Until recently it would have been unthinkable that anyone, especially prominent political leaders, would mock prayer. However, the sad reality is that disrespect for Christianity is one of the Left’s contributions to modern American culture. Elites in Washington, Hollywood, and their lesser acolytes in the “Twitterverse” and on Facebook openly dismissed prayer for the Las Vegas victims as an excuse for inaction.

For Americans to see prayer as an avoidance of responsibility bespeaks an inscrutable ignorance. Our Founding Fathers, the pilgrims and pioneers who came before them, and most of the colonists prayed and yet somehow built the greatest nation on earth at the same time.

They were not a genetically superior breed. Their flaws and mistakes are well known, but they believed in the power of prayer, as did most in the society of their time. They also believed in providential guidance in answer to prayer. To put it another way, they believed that prayer was the prelude to more effective action, not a way of avoiding it. Even the slaves believed that they could pray their way out of bondage. They had no earthly power to bring it about, but, not to put too fine a point on it, their prayers were answered.

[sarasota]

Prayer IS “doing something”. Change occurs from the inside out. Just my 2 cents.

[loveliberty2]

In their Declaration of Independence from oppression by other human beings who, by their "positions" in a government structure, saw themselves, in the words of Jefferson, as "booted and spurred" elitists with some inherent power to tell other human beings how to think, how to act, where to be, and what is best for them and their families.

Is there a current personification of such "elitists"--one who just won't give up the fight for a power position, even after being rebuffed and rejected by citizens and states when her fight was put to voters?

[Fedora]

Meanwhile as they denounce prayer, Democrats gather to cast spells against Trump.