It's A Sin to Pray

No not literally, unless of course you break the law to do it. Of course as someone who understands spiritual reality, God's law trumps the national law anyway, so no its not a sin, to a Christian. Unfortunately to a growing minority in this country it is a sin though. It is a sin to ask for help, for guidance, for wisdom and for grace. Sounds kinda ridiculous doesn't it? Since when can asking for help be so bad? After all that is what one of the main tenets of prayer is.
Take the Lord's prayer for instance, "give us, forgive us, lead us not, deliver us." Lots of "us" in that prayer isn't there? Short to be sure, but powerful because it relied on God as the giver and not ourselves. This then bears weight with the intent of prayer, to keep ourselves humble in the eyes of God and to make sure that we understand we are not within ourselves able to have all the answers for life. Of course this offends many within our culture who decry any religious intonation within government circles at all in our country as noted in this recent article on NPR. But the thing that irks me is the total loss of the rationale behind prayer in the first place. The one thing that atheists tend to have in common, pride.
Too much pride to simply ask for help. To realize that we don't have all the answers to life and can't do it all for ourselves is akin to blasphemy for them. So what is so wrong with a government that can humbly ask for providence to guide them? To me this is the basic building block of any great government, humility. And of course the basic tenet to any great person as well. So fight prayer in the courts, fight it in the media, put your best boxing gloves on, but in reality all you are doing is throwing punches into thin air because humility beats pride any day.
National Day of Prayer Rules! Keep it Sanctioned in Government and Keep it national, public and humble. And for those who seek to thwart any understanding that Judeo-Christian values were deeply embedded in our nation, take a tour of Washington D.C. and tell me what you See!