[ExI] Atheist Prayer?

Brent Allsop brent.allsop at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 05:20:56 UTC 2023


I've been attending our local Sandy City Council meetings, hoping we can
build some consensus from all the polarizing bleating and tweeting.  They
fail to separate church and State by opening the council meeting with a
prayer. How do you think they’d feel if an Atheist volunteered to give the
prayer?


Dear Mother Nature,

We recognize that we are all a part of you, and are all working to make the
world a better place for our children.  We thank our ancestors for creating
us and doing this unstoppable work of making the world a better place for
millions of years.  There are some remaining problems that haven’t yet been
resolved like death and polarization of society.  We acknowledge that these
issues are small in comparison to what you have already accomplished.
Especially given our ancestors had so much less than what you have given us
to work with.

We pray that we will be able to follow your example and continue to resolve
these remaining issues, including making the world just by paying our
ancestors back for all you have given to us.  We look forward to being able
to overcome these last remaining terminal problems, long before any of us
achieve anything close to omnipotence.  We have faith and hope that, as you
have already proven with so many solved problems, once they are overcome,
they become easy and none of our children will ever need to suffer from
them, ever again.  We look forward to this glorious world that will be even
more heavenly than the world you have already given us.

We say all this in acknowledgement of all you have done for us.

Amen



P.S.  Future Gods, as you sit in judgment of us, finally making things
fair, please forgive those of us who are sinfully only waiting for you to
save them, for they fail to understand exponential progress, so know not
what is possible.
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