Proclamation, full text here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-prayer-americans-affected-coronavirus-pandemic-national-response-efforts/
The Proclamation was issued yesterday.
Trump is calling for prayer? How dare he be such a hypocrite? I am repulsed by this.
Seems like if God wanted to stop this, He could have not created it in the first place.
Clearly many of us here are not his fans, but I see this as a positive sign.
I disagree with him on so many levels, but this can help.
How, exactly?
I think we should all get together, hold hands, and say a prayer to the God that created this virus. Once we’re done, we can all lick our hands and high five, going home secure in the knowledge that the God who created this virus will be appropriately chagrined.
+1
What happened to thoughts and prayers? Is not thinking now official policy?
You have to ask??
We could get together and yell at God through prayer. That will make us all feel better.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, why the fuck are you trying to bring more people there early? Are you fucking lonely or something? I mean, seriously, what the fuck? Then, You bless us an administration that spent the first critical weeks of this breakout ignoring the science and worrying more about its image than the health and safety of Your American children. Amen and all that, but seriously, after You invented this, it will be up to us imperfect humans to try and clean up Your mistakes.
Definition of prayer:
How about a national day of COVID testing, that seems to be a much smarter choice. Prayer my ass.
I’m not the prayin’ kind, but if I were, I’d be praying that God would consider taking home our fucking pinhead of a so-called “President”.
I don’t understand the need for a national day of prayer. For those so inclined (I am not), is there some prohibition that keeps them from praying as often as they like on as many days as they like? Do they need permission to pray now?
I was hoping more of the responses here would be on the policy itself and a reversion to the same old theistic/atheistic debate.
So to the OP: it’s silly grandstanding designed to divert people’s attention from his failure to do his damned job. You think people who believe in prayer aren’t already praying? Or do you think concerted, simultaneous prayer works better than people praying at home or in their various houses of worship on their particular sabbath?
You know who used to approach calamities in this country with calls for prayer and fasting? Colonial ministers. They had no way to understand germs and disease, so they hewed to ancient belief that God was angry with humankind and must be expiated. People praying together probably made the effects of disease much worse.
There’s an old saying, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” Calling for a national day of prayer, especially coming from a president who only pretends to be Christian for political purposes, is easier than instituting the national policies that would have contained this disease in the first place instead of ignorantly claiming it was a hoax. But if you want to believe COVID-19 is the work of an angry God, consider He might be angry because we elected an evil president who’s done nothing to stop the trashing of the planet He created and has encouraged hatred, greed, and selfishness–the antitheses of the faith that disingenuous president claims to hold so dear.
If we all pray on the same day, the omniscient, omnipotent God may actually be able to hear us. Maybe it will be so annoying to God, hearing all these prayers on the same subject, that He’ll wipe COVID-19 off the map.
I smell Pence’s stank all over this.
What makes you think God wants him back?
I’m trying to think of which of the Seven Deadly Sins he hasn’t violated. Seems unlikely he’s heading to the Good Place when he’s swallowed his last extra scoop of ice cream.
What if even Satan thinks he’s an asshole?