FRC weekly call to prayer more incoherent than usual

• December 5, 2014
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This weeks call to prayer by the FRC (Family Research Council) is more incoherent than usual. The suggested prayer that everyone should repeat opens with

This year, especially, we give thanks for free government.

I didn’t realize government was “free”; that is, incurring no cost to me. Apparently I’ve been doing it wrong by wasting time evaluating the merits of the ballot proposals I’ve been asked to vote on. Apparently the taxes I pay have nothing to do with the functioning of government. Imagine my surprise to learn that local, state, and federal law enforcement isn’t funded by my taxes. Not to mention our military.

Next we should

… thank God for the system of checks and balances ingeniously embedded by the Founding Fathers in our Constitution…

Which is another surprise since I’ve read the Christian Bible and nowhere within its pages do I find anything about “checks and balances” or anything else found in the Constitution of the USA. Not surprisingly the FRC email provides no support for the above assertion. I could go on but those aren’t the only absurd statements in just the first paragraph of that prayer. So I’m going to move on to the next portion of the email.

Atlanta Mayor Punishes Fire Chief for his Christian Faith – Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has joined the big-city autocrats who defy the Constitution and punish Christians who dare to express their First Amendment protected faith. Mayor Reed is making an example of Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran for his book, published last year, entitled, Who Told You That You Were Naked?

A little googling reveals that this is not about simply writing a book. It’s about the fire chief distributing the book to his employees. Thereby explicitly communicating to them that he believes it is appropriate to discriminate against any employee who violates his moral code. In contravention of city policy as well as federal law. Yes, technically the fire chief is being punished “for his christian faith”. But only because he made it clear to his ostensibly secular employees his religious dogma would affect his treatment of those employees regardless of whether or not they shared his religious dogma.

More proof that Christians who view that label as central to their identity (as contrasted with cultural Christians) are willing to lie if they believe doing so advances their agenda.