<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 6:21 AM Brent Allsop <<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@gmail.com">brent.allsop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span id="m_4164102687042953326gmail-docs-internal-guid-be6eedce-7fff-f2ca-d8ea-f6ab4b028e84"><span id="m_4164102687042953326gmail-docs-internal-guid-2622796f-7fff-6a49-72b9-7b511eb9d0db"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I've been attending our local Sandy City Council meetings, hoping we can build some consensus from all the polarizing bleating and tweeting. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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?</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Mother Nature,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We say all this in acknowledgement of all you have done for us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amen</span></p><br><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nice!<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_4164102687042953326gmail-docs-internal-guid-be6eedce-7fff-f2ca-d8ea-f6ab4b028e84"><span id="m_4164102687042953326gmail-docs-internal-guid-2622796f-7fff-6a49-72b9-7b511eb9d0db"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p></span></span></div></div>
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