The claim by the FFRF failed to prevent what appears to be an infringement of the US first amendment. (But what would I know? I'm only English.)
In her usual incisive way, (English) Paula Kirby's response in the Washington Post's On Faith blog included:
What responsible driver, seeing a multiple pile-up on the road ahead, responds by taking his hands off the steering wheel? Yet this is precisely what Rick Perry would have the United States of America do.
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Crises require cool heads, clear thinking, expertise and the deepest possible commitment to rational thinking. To claim that they actually require us to throw ourselves on the mercy of a mythical deity is a cop-out - and a disgracefully irresponsible cop-out at that. Making supplications to a magic friend is not any way for the leader of a modern, civilized, developed nation to proceed.
Read the rest . . .
Its worth it!
2 comments:
Ah, prayer! A great way to make humans feel and look as if they're doing something useful, when in reality they're doing nothing
Kirby's column was written in 2011. Writing about Rick Perry's silliness now is a bit outdated.
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