I wonder if he's praying to Brahman or Odin. This kind of superstitious tomfoolery is why people don't actually DO THINGS to ensure they can survive droubt, such as control their birth rate, acknowledge global warming, etc.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_re_us/southern_drought
2007-11-12 10:40:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
According to your article, he ordered water restrictions and asked for federal aid. Quite frankly, if he wants to pray to Christ, Brahman, Odin or the Easter Bunny, he should feel free to do so without being called a savage for his religious beliefs.
2007-11-12 10:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by John V 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Thankfully we have really really smart people like you to keep the world on track.
Acknowledging global warming makes it rain? Really? Maybe we should all go outside and say that out loud to get some rainfall started.
I never thought of using Birth Control to get it to rain either. Dang you sure are a smart one.
Yeah, I'm being sarcastic.
If the governor of the State of Georgia was a full-blooded Cherokee, would you still have called him a savage?
If not....why not?
Can YOU make it rain? Can you control reproduction rates or stop global warming? Well neither can anyone else. People do what they want to do because they have free will. Shrill whining noises aren't going to convince them to modify their behavior, especially if you start out by bad mouthing them.
Isn't it nice though how the Kyoto Accords give the number one emitter of CO a free ride, the country that burns coal like it was incense, and pollutes so freely that it has to stop drinking from its own lakes and rivers. The country that never installs scrubbers on smokestacks because it costs too much, that has NO environmental regulations because they just don't want to mess with them.
Which country is this? You're so smart....you figure it out.
2007-11-12 11:03:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are a bit out of step with the rest of America. This country was founded on the principle that we are endowed with our rights by the Creator. While the founding of this country was decidedly non-denominational it was very much influenced by the Christian doctrine of tolerance. A belief in God, fear of God and high moral character were presumed to be the norm for all Americans by our Founding Fathers.
They began the first meetings dedicated to the founding of this nation with prayer. They prayed regularly in Congress and publicly. Congress still begins each session with a prayer.
If you dislike prayers so much perhaps you can explain how that does not make you the odd man out in this country of believers. How can you accuse this Governor of savagery yet shrug off partial birth abortion?
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2007-11-12 11:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thought Savage was in Maryland or Minnesota. Ok.
Calm down. No panic. Now, who precisely was hurt?
Only your religious feeling of human unworthiness or worse?
How much time for the heroic fight on problems was wasted
by that prayer? Enormous? Try to meditate over that perhaps.
2007-11-12 10:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The governor of Alabama asked human beings to wish for rain in July and it rained virtually daily for each week. He stopped praying, it stopped raining. and because you suggested Brahman, are you saying Hindus are savage?
2016-09-29 02:55:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I need a few more examples in order to figure out why you claim praying is "American savagery". Obviously, you're not from around here, are you?
2007-11-12 10:57:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not consider praying for rain to be an example of "savagry". It is, of course, a very convenient way to dodge any responisibility, because, "I prayed, so it's in God's Hands now, I'm out of it".
Sacrificing animals or, God forbid, HUMANS to "appease the rain Gods", would be an act of savagry.
2007-11-12 10:49:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mean like when the 2 faced liberals that want to take God out of the USA stood with the Republicans on 9-11 after the attacks to sing God Bless America.
2007-11-12 10:49:14 · answer #8 · answered by Mary Jo W 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is ultimately up to Shai-Hulud to make such a decision. If rain is deemed as a priority, then rain it shall.
Does it matter that he prays? Or where rain dances? All such have lessons to be learnt, and all such happen in the ways we see them or see them not.
2007-11-12 10:49:14 · answer #9 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It can't hurt so whats the problem? The original Americans did it and they believed in it. So if the American Indians were savages they sure took care of America better than we have.
2007-11-12 10:51:28 · answer #10 · answered by Enigma 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋