Once again I received an unsolicited email from my father.

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation

THIS MAN SURELY HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY!

'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!'

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

So, of course I disagree with most of the shit in this email. What I find disheartening is that most would say this is really no big deal, it wouldn't even be considered whether this is some sort of invasion into my life. Yet, if I were to answer, telling my father what I really thought of this, I would be branded the asshole by any observers.

And of course I did a search at snopes.com, and came up with this.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/prayernation.asp

On another similar note, there is a headline here that shouldn't surprise me, but does anyway.

Educated Catholics have sown dissent and confusion in the Church, claims bishop

Catholics have always used this justification for being stupid. It's not only catholics though, most dimwitted theists grumble at education, because the dude is right, it encourages people to be skeptical.

What I find amazing is this still works, that people will read this column and nod in agreement.