# COVID-19 3/15/2020: The President calls for National Day of Prayer **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 15, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541 "2020-03-15T17:15:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/41 "2020-03-15T22:36:20Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Proclamation, full text here: > [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-prayer-americans-affected-coronavirus-pandemic-national-response-efforts/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-prayer-americans-affected-coronavirus-pandemic-national-response-efforts/) > > The Proclamation was issued yesterday. It’s working so well for mass shootings, why not give it a try? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/42 "2020-03-15T22:41:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What makes you think God wants him back? What makes you think he was ever in heaven to begin with? And why would he be headed there when he dies? ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/43 "2020-03-15T22:48:18Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Seems like if God wanted to stop this, He could have not created it in the first place. And he would have put that tree someplace other than in the middle of the garden, or at the very least have created humans that didn’t like apples. And why exactly did he give serpents the power to speak English? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/44 "2020-03-15T23:02:57Z")
“Pray and pass the…What do you mean, there aren’t any testing kits?” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/45 "2020-03-15T23:17:03Z")
I’m guessing that Donald is not familiar with the opening lines of [The Soft Parade](https://youtu.be/ZX_0zifkCIM). ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/46 "2020-03-15T23:56:01Z")
Boy is he gonna be pissed we he finds out they aren’t planning on praying to him. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/47 "2020-03-16T00:06:54Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > 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’d wager some people would need the official proclamation so they could take the day off work and go to church, so we’re in a good news-bad news situation here… ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/48 "2020-03-16T01:11:00Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Correlation is not causation. You said it. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/49 "2020-03-16T01:32:29Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Just reviewed the Seven Deadly Sins and, wow, does Trump embody each and every one of them. It’s amazing! He’s like the champion of them. I know they’re extra-biblical and all, but jeez. Anyway, sorry for the hijack. For those who don’t remember\*, we have in no particular order: Lust Anger Gluttony Sloth Vanity Envy Avarice I’m not sure he qualifies for Sloth. I haven’t seen evidence that he is particularly lazy. All the others, though, spot on. Six out of seven isn’t bad, I mean good. \*I always can remember these from the original movie Bedazzled, which had personifications of all of them. The most famous of them was, of course, Raquel Welch as Lillian Lust. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/50 "2020-03-16T01:35:04Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So should we do it on Friday, the Muslim holy day or Saturday, the Jewish one? 😕 Definitely Wednesday. Odin is a badass God! I heard that an earlier coronavirus made him lose his eye, so he’s probably ready for some revenge. Thor vs. Coronavirus II…this time, it’s deified! ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/51 "2020-03-16T01:37:11Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > … > > I’m not sure he qualifies for Sloth. I haven’t seen evidence that he is particularly lazy. All the others, though, spot on. Six out of seven isn’t bad, I mean good. > > … Seriously? He won’t read through, well, anything, and has any president spent more time on vacation playing golf? He’s mentally lazy, and he rides golf carts even on courses that don’t allow them, so he’s physically lazy as well. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/52 "2020-03-16T01:38:49Z")
From what I see Trump’s plea is only concerning American’s in his request for prayer. God’s love stops at Americans??? God help us all. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/53 "2020-03-16T01:42:02Z")
Re: sloth, I remember hearing that he believes humans only have a finite amount of energy/life force, so exercise just uses it up. Handy for remembering the sins: APE GALS. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/54 "2020-03-16T01:52:01Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’d wager some people would need the official proclamation so they could take the day off work and go to church, so we’re in a good news-bad news situation here… According to the text of the Proclamation, it’s today (Sunday, March 15), so most folks already don’t have to go to work. Which raises the question of the one that’s scheduled for [May 11.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Prayer) Do we skip it, or double up, and skip next year’s? Anyway I can’t. I gave up monotheism for Lent (full disclosure: in 1997). ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/55 "2020-03-16T02:09:14Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Re: sloth, I remember hearing that he believes humans only have a finite amount of energy/life force, so exercise just uses it up. > > Handy for remembering the sins: APE GALS. [Kinksy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHqs8SffDo&t=2m37s) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/56 "2020-03-16T02:20:18Z")
Ah, a love song from my youth. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/57 "2020-03-16T02:27:36Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Handy for remembering the sins: APE GALS. ?? Where’s the “P”? Lust Anger Gluttony Sloth Vanity Envy Avarice VEAL GAS ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/58 "2020-03-16T02:32:10Z")
Replace the **V** anity with **P** ride. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/59 "2020-03-16T02:46:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Replace the **V** anity with **P** ride. Ah, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541/60 "2020-03-16T02:53:27Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Boy is he gonna be pissed we he finds out they aren’t planning on praying to him. +1. Thread winner Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-3-15-2020-the-president-calls-for-national-day-of-prayer/849541.md?page=4)