Thoughts and prayers!

Whatsoever you beg of God, also work for it.

I think for most politicians it's a public relations line - Christian lip service for public consumption. I doubt if most of our politicians are practising Christians for a start, although I suppose I could be wrong.

Then again I'm not the one in the hot seat. If I was a politician where I live and there was a local school shooting, I'd have to think carefuly about what I said and did.

It would not matter if I was the federal, state or local member - it would still be a difficult time.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and the community at this incredibly difficult time, but we also stand in solidarity with our police and the security personnel involved in this incident

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I lifted this sentence from a news item tonight on ABC news. It has your favourite phrase embedded and could have been lifted straight from your copy book. It was related to an indigenous death in custody in the Northern Territory.


I don't know what the politician's religious views are but I don't think she's a practising Christian, although I might be wrong. It's her views on abortion that make me doubtful. But apparently she still thinks her prayers are worth something.

Personally I think it's a political PR cliche.