On the one hand, I suppose this isn’t different than a football team’s pre-game prayer for victory. Although I’ve always found that notion bizarre. I understand praying for the strength and courage to do your personal best, but praying for victory, for God to actively intervene and smite your opponent, reeks just a bit too much of the “my god is bigger than your god” position. Maybe that makes sense in a religious war scenario, but what does it mean when you and your opponent are both praying for victory to the same god? Are you hoping to be deemed God’s favorite?<\/p>\n
Yet it seems in this vein that we find Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Counsel and their Adopt a Liberal<\/a> program. The program encourages followers to pray for <\/span>liberal leaders to become right minded. But “praying for someone” sounds like such a good thing. How could this be bad? Because what they are really asking, is for people pray against <\/span>liberals. In essence, praying for God to come down on the side of conservative politics and smite their political opponents. This is textbook passive aggressiveness.<\/p>\n What borders on the comical, is that Liberty Counsel’s website promoting this religious movement contains bald-faced lies about some of the liberal prayer targets. Just to pick one example, John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is listed as<\/a>:<\/p>\n “…suggesting compulsory sterilization and abortion as appropriate policies for population control. He is on record as calling for the national government dictating how large families can be. Dr. Holdren is a “one world order” proponent, stating that, “a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources.” In an article he co-authored, Holdren advocated sterilization through government-controlled tainting of the water supply.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, Politifact.com rates these claims<\/a> as, liar, liar, “Pants on Fire!” So is Liberty Counsel hoping that God is ignorant, that he advocates and favors dishonesty and slander, or that He has a Machiavellian side that’s willing to let violation of the 9th Commandment slide as long as the results are righteous?<\/p>\n And you wonder why more and more Americans are becoming disillusioned with religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n