Sunday, August 14, 2011

RICK PERRY: Prayer will fix all our problems?

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An interesting article about the new presidential candidate appeared in the New York Times titled “Rick Perry’s Unanswered Prayers” by Timothy Egan (August 11, 2011).

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas is an attractive candidate as I have mentioned before but his unabashed and over the top religiosity will be his undoing and many a writer, including myself, will be picking on this trait of his not because he is religious but because he takes his religion to an absurd level and a president of the United States is president of all Americans and not just those that follow his brand of religion.

Tim Eagan pokes at Perry and especially his penchant to officially proclaim as governor of Texas, official prayer days to address issues of concern. The last was to pray for rain as Texas is basically dried-up as a bone. After the prayer proclamation, Texas got drier and drier prompting some to say that god does not listen to Perry.

On a serious note, some are saying that to tackle serious problems in this country and the world, his answer will be to turn to god and prayer and that is to turn to Jesus and Christian prayer; all others don’t work…but his doesn’t work either?
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