With all due respect to people’s religions, it irks me when politicians tell me that I need to pray. I’m not religious, and we are supposedly in a country that values separation of church and state. Yet every time some catastrophe happens, the first thing politicians tell us is that we need to pray. Not “pray if you’re religious”, but “we need to pray”. While I don’t mind if people want to pray, I don’t appreciate politicians telling me that I need to become religious.
It’s not a big deal, it just irks me. I realize I’m probably in an extreme minority.
It irks me too, and I am religious!
It is a simple placating response that doesn’t mean anything, yet religious people eat it up and keep voting. Nevermind that these same politicians might be voting in ways that very well could have contributed to the thing they ate promising to pray for.
That is what pisses me off when I hear politicians respond with “I am praying for them”. Snakes the lot of them. Leave the praying for the people and their families, friends, priests, and pastors. You are a legislator, Legislate!