Georgia plans service to pray for rain - Boston.com

Well, we are coming into the season of War on Xmas, and excesses of Political Piety, so look here for how Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has decided to deal with the bad drought afflicting the state: Georgia Plans Service to Pray for Rain. Apparently, the weather forecast calls for rain.

Now, if you pray for Rain, can you just say, "please send rain whenever..." or can you say, in the next week please send rain? Does it work if you do it during the dry season and no rain is in the forecast? Oh, but I'm being silly here. Praying for rain is not the problem. I'm sure many devout folks pray for good things to happen. The difficulty lies with an elected official hosting and establishing a prayer service for such a problem, and making this kind of claim:

"The only solution is rain, and the only place we get that is from a higher power," Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said on Wednesday.

If you ask a supporter of Intelligent Design who is that higher power, they could not provide an answer because they go out of their way to deny that the Intelligent Designer is the Christian god. The question however, is a good one. Who is the higher power that Georgia elected officials will pray to next week? Shouldn't they have specifically named the higher power? Otherwise, how do we know they are not just praying to a bunch of pagan gods for rain?

The news report says that they invited "leaders from several faiths." Would they be OK with a Wiccan doing an incantation for rain? Or a Native American, or a Voodoo practitioner? For all I know they might be, but then, how do we know which god or deity granted the wish?

Comments

[donna]

I recommend Chac, the Mayan god of rain....