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This presidential ‘prayer’ was reflective of a great deficiency that besets our time.
May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Throughout history, various presidents have asked the American people for their prayers in times of crisis, and have even called for a day to be devoted to prayer on a nationwide basis. Abraham Lincoln made such an appeal during the Civil War.
The formal observance we know as the National Day of Prayer was instituted in 1952 under President Harry Truman. Since 1988, an official prayer breakfast has been scheduled annually, led by the president on the first Thursday of May.
Joe Biden marked this year’s National Day of Prayer — conducted “virtually” because of pandemic restrictions — with a video proclamation. But there was something different, and rather strange, about this presidential entreaty. If, indeed, Biden was praying, we don’t really know who it was he was praying to.
Terms like God or Father weren’t included in his statement. There was no reference to even so general a concept as deity or The Almighty.
Predictably, Biden couched his remarks in that inclusive way we would expect in this age of diversity and multi-culturalism. He noted how “Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance.” And he observed specifically how praying “has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements …
The moral movements he cited were every bit as predictable, including “essential fights against racial injustice, child labor, and infringement on the rights of disabled Americans.”
Continued below.
Biden’s prayer to no one says a lot about conditions in our country right now
May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Throughout history, various presidents have asked the American people for their prayers in times of crisis, and have even called for a day to be devoted to prayer on a nationwide basis. Abraham Lincoln made such an appeal during the Civil War.
The formal observance we know as the National Day of Prayer was instituted in 1952 under President Harry Truman. Since 1988, an official prayer breakfast has been scheduled annually, led by the president on the first Thursday of May.
Joe Biden marked this year’s National Day of Prayer — conducted “virtually” because of pandemic restrictions — with a video proclamation. But there was something different, and rather strange, about this presidential entreaty. If, indeed, Biden was praying, we don’t really know who it was he was praying to.
Terms like God or Father weren’t included in his statement. There was no reference to even so general a concept as deity or The Almighty.
Predictably, Biden couched his remarks in that inclusive way we would expect in this age of diversity and multi-culturalism. He noted how “Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance.” And he observed specifically how praying “has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements …
The moral movements he cited were every bit as predictable, including “essential fights against racial injustice, child labor, and infringement on the rights of disabled Americans.”
Continued below.
Biden’s prayer to no one says a lot about conditions in our country right now
