So the governor of the State of Georgia decided that, in the face of the worst drought on record, he would lead a prayer group on Tuesday at 11:00am. This prayer group would be charged with turning the tide, getting God back on our side and starting our faucets and hoses flowing again. Forget the fact that they waited to hold the prayer group until the forecast was in their favor (a better than half chance that it was going to rain on Wednesday night). Forget that the simple admission that we needed to pray to God for rain means that he was willfully withholding the rain for us for some reason and that we must appease him. Instead, just revel in the following quotes given by our Governor this morning:
"It is great affirmation of what we asked for." - Exactly. Especially since we asked for the weatherman to predict when it was going to rain so that we could stage a stunt prayer group and look like we actually had something to do with the rain.
"As we do all we can from a conservation standpoint, virtually all of us know we are dependent on rain. I am just a person who believes it comes from God." - And I am just a person who believes that if it comes from God, then when it doesn't come that this is from God too.
I certainly don't mean to poop on the power of prayer, but I just cannot stand it when politicians stump for religion in such a blatantly dumb way. And whoever it was that decided to piss of the Big Guy this season, please apologize so that he will let the rain fall again.
Peace out!!
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