God we beseech thee bless this bullet
Okay, I give up – what is the Pentagon doing having a “special Pentagon prayer service”? Even before we ask what is it doing having Franklin Graham appearing at such a thing, what is it doing having such a thing in the first place?
And yet people wonder why atheists “proselytize” to the extent of pointing out that there are no genuinely good reasons to believe the things that make a “National Prayer Day” seem like something that an entity called God expects us to have once a year.
The military is a lot like a religious organization. Its career professionals make their livings by espousing incoherent and dangerous bullshit and ignoring the consequences. They are professional liars. They recommend mass murder as a good solution to whatever problems your community might have. (Priests do this only occasionally; mullahs, more often; generals – every day, all day long.)
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!
Why do I suspect that prayers for peace will get second billing to prayers for victory?
I could understand standing in Washington, staring straight into the eyes of any pentagon representative handy and fairly shouting “Jesus Christ, just end this madness and bring our soldiers home!” But I suspect that that ‘prayer’ would fall on deaf ears (not unlike all the rest of the prayers ever uttered…).
Maybe this is how they create that memo paper they use for their muy especial secret memos? Everyone brings scissors and paste and they cut out their favorite passages and pictures of sunsets etc and stick them on the paper.
Reading Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer”?