A Pagan Prayer in Congress

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver

How is this guy’s prayer not an abomination?

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, before he closed his Congressional prayer with the absurd “Amen–and a woman”, also spoke these words.

“We ask in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma–” Brahma is a god in the polytheistic Hindu pantheon–“and God known by many names and faiths” (https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/why-amen-and-a-woman-is-far-worse-than-it-might-seem/).

What does God say?

“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” (Isaiah 42:8).

It’s dangerous to hand a country over to fools and criminals, but that’s exactly what we’ve done, and we will surely suffer for it. The United States might not survive as anything more than a name on a map. We hear God’s name bandied about among bubbling inanities–and no one protests, no one minds. We ask Him to stand up for us, but do we stand up for Him?

No. We trot out “Clergy for Choice,” as if we were daring Him to smite us.

Well, maybe He has.

‘Calling Evil Good’ (2014)

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Not really…

Did I say they were calling evil good in 2014? Well, yeah, obviously they were. But it seems like almost nothing, compared to now. We’ve sunk a lot deeper into the mire in six years.

Calling Evil Good

An anecdote about Abraham Lincoln crossed my mind.

Lincoln was contending with the members of his cabinet on some point or other, and challenged them with a rhetorical question: “How many legs would a sheep have, if you called the tail a leg?”

“Five!” answered the Secretary of War.

“Wrong,” said Lincoln, “he’d still have only four. Because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”

And calling a man a woman doesn’t make him one–no matter how many times you do it.