Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue yesterday, along with a large crowd which included many other fellow lawmakers, held a vigil on the steps of Georgia's capitol to pray for rain. Georgia has been suffering a horrible drought in the past few months, and I guess this is the good governor's solution.
Read more about it here.
This is pretty sad. I mean, forgetting about the fact that it was a blatant violation of the separation church and state, it's sad that elected officials even have the desire to take part in this nonsense. Why doesn't he just do a rain dance? No, we laugh at silly tribal rituals like that, even though we're not much better.
In the article I linked some residents were quoted as saying that they didn't think the prayers would do any good, but that it was good that it was uniting people. So unity is good even if that which unites you is bad?
Unity has the effect of strengthening that which fosters it. In this case, the unity strengthens the religious sentiment in their society, which is bad. If they can't find anything good to be united by, then their society is in a pretty sad state, and they just shouldn't be united at all.
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