Well, another National Day of Prayer has passed and any number of people have weighed in about how there is something wrong with those who don't pray - and something very wrong with those who object to the politicization of prayer. Anything which reminds Christians that they aren't the only people in this nation has to be struck down quickly and firmly.

Greg Johnson reveals no small amount of bigotry when he writes:

Gov. Phil Bredesen's 2005 proclamation notes that a National Day of Prayer "is a tradition first proclaimed by the Continental Congress in 1775." An aged Benjamin Franklin asked that each session of the Constitutional Convention begin with prayer and said, "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth - that God governs in the Affairs of Men."

What Greg Johnson doesn't tell you is that the Convention didn't even bother to take up a vote on the matter — they basically ignored Franklin and went about the real business that they were there for: crafting a Constitution. Unlike so many politicians today, they recognized that their authority was political, not religious. People like Greg Johnson don't seem to want people to remember this.

Abraham Lincoln went beyond a day of prayer and proclaimed a National Fast Day. He wrote, "It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God." He asked Americans to fast and pray and "to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

In this case, Greg Johnson is correct — but is something true merely because Abraham Lincoln says it? Even Greg Johnson should recognize that there is nothing in the Constitution about America being dependent upon God. Religious liberty is incompatible with the government singling out one religion or one god for privileged treatment.

With irrational reasoning, Rationalists of East Tennessee would do away with public prayer, even though the founders asked for it. In spite of our national leaders depending on prayer for over 200 years, the Rationalists would ignore history and impose a tyranny of the atheistic minority.

This is sheer nonsense. Greg Johnson is whining that rationalists are promoting a "National Day of Reason" alongside prayer. So what's wrong with reason? Does Greg Johnson hate reason? What sort of "tyranny of the atheistic minority" would exist if people were reminded of the importance of reasoning? None — Greg Johnson surely knows that, so why is he saying otherwise to his readers?

Rationalists of East Tennessee and organizations like Atheists Alliance International and Internet Infidels spitefully endorsed today as a Day of Reason to intimidate government officials into either recognizing a Day of Reason or not recognizing a Day of Prayer.

Oh, my — atheists actually promote the idea that the government shouldn't take sides in matters of religion. What's going to happen next? Women voting? Black people sitting in the front of the bus? Jews being allowed to buy houses wherever they want?

Society is going down hill when minorities get the same rights and privileges as white Christian men, I'll tell you. Pity poor Greg Johnson that he has to live in an America where he has to face minorities, women, and non-Christians demanding rights like he has. It must be awful for him.

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