Prayer, 24-7

By: JournalNow Staff | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: February 05, 2012

Prayer, 24-7

I believe we should mandate prayer in schools.

But before we can, we must first

Prove that God does in fact exist. (Tangible evidence, please, because even atheists have faith.)

Determine which god is the God. (There are more than 4,000 known religions on Earth, all competing for the top spot. Until we filter out the nonexistent gods from the real one(s), we run the risk of many children praying to something that doesn't exist — a colossal waste of precious school time.)

Verify whether or not God has almighty powers. (If so, then we don't need to pray. God already knows our wishes and will act accordingly.)

If not, then next we should verify that God is accepting prayer requests. (Because no one likes unsolicited spam.)

Lastly, we should verify that God actually answers prayers. (Otherwise, what's the point?)

Once we accomplish the above, we should immediately mandate prayer in schools. In fact, I will probably pull my child from school so that we can just pray all day. (Sorry, teachers, but talking to God seems way more stimulating than class time with you guys.)

But until then, we probably should focus on creating a bunch of really smart scientists, mathematicians, artists, doctors, engineers and teachers who might someday answer this and life's other great riddles.

This will require every minute of the school day, I'm afraid.

RICK RANDALL

Winston-Salem