Prayer Meeting

Next week, it seems, a group is organizing a nationwide prayer from 7:15 am until about 8:00 am on school grounds. I have seen fliers in the school in Lanesboro and in Harmony. I am guessing fliers are also posted in Mabel, Chatfield, and Spring Valley. The flier has a quote from Psalms “Be still and know I am God.” I can’t fathom why the people who created this flier would quote the old testament. Does the person really want people to pray to the old testament god? Why in the world would people pray to a cruel, intolerant, vindictive, mean-spirited, and egotistical god? The god of the old testament is cruel (it killed all the first born sons of Egypt). It is intolerant (it wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah). It is vindictive (it had to teach the Egyptians a lesson for keeping the Hebrews as slaves). It is mean-spirited (who can forgot how it treated Job). It is egotistical (it had to prove it was god by punishing Egypt). It is genocidal (it destroyed all of creation except for Noah and his family). Why would anyone in their right mind pray to this god? At least the people who are organizing this could have given a quote from Jesus. Not the supernatural god-man Jesus but something from the historical Jesus. The organizers of this event need to more closely read the Bible and they will see how cruel the old testament god is.