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Prayer is Not for the McDonald’s Take-Out Line
By Jane Tawel
February 6, 2020
Today, in my country, is a day that is known for recognizing something called “The Annual National Prayer Breakfast”. The irony, not least among all the current ironies of this day, is that if anyone who actually claims to follow either Jesus Christ, as a Christian, or who claims to be a believer in YHWH God, as a believing Jew or Christian — if that person actually understood the Bible, they would know how very wrong this whole idea of “National Prayer” is, at least as practiced here. And not only is it wrong, but we who believe in prayer, should tremble if we do in fact believe that God commands us not to take His name in vain. Because prayer is only a type of self-vanity and more frighteningly, the abuse of God’s name if we pray for people who do not want to live into the truth, who do not love, who do not follow the commandments of God and the Golden Rule of Christ.
I read an article in the Washington Post today by Chris Coons, entitled “Why I pray for Donald Trump”. Coons obviously has a good heart here, obviously, but he is sadly, just another person who has jumped on the bandwagon of a religion that has been skewing south, at least since the days of the Roman Empire and Constantine. This article by Coons, is among a host of others trending by self-proclaimed followers of the God of Abraham, Moses, David…
