TIME magazine (October 3, 2016) devoted a full page to “Trump’s longtime spiritual advisor”, Pastor Paula White, “who believes that intercessory prayer can have an immediate impact on shaping events”. She credits herself for making Donald Trump’s words . . . “God’s words” (!). TIME did not see fit, though it has often done so in the past, to publish my Letter to the Editor, but it may interest readers of this Blog :
“Give God, or the pray – er, the credit ? Pastor Paula White sees a cause-effect relationship between her praying and getting what she prays for. I have a neighbor who constantly asks about my health. When I give her the good news, she tells me it is because she prays for me every day. She does not know that I am an ex-Franciscan Catholic priest become a militant atheist. I do not have the heart to disillusion her. But a minister of religion who gives herself the credit for getting God to do what she wants is either a fraud or a monster of credulity and arrogance.”
RIDENDA RELIGIO
Blind Faith: Blind Folly 
The Power of Prayer or the power of the prayer. The definite article definitely makes a powerful difference. Either way we can see P.O.P as an art form – pop art – the course of history being determined by Warhol, de Kooning and Johnny Cash or even (ugh) Minogue or Bieber. But we know that’s the case anyway – so maybe, just maybe, the Big Banana upstairs really rocks.
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Again, Thom writes and Frank likes; both share the guilt.
The woman in the list gets an “ugh”. Oops! Who has the problem with women?
Shame on the village( word) smithy. Clang! clang! as he forges away.
Of note; Frank often likes Smithy. Smithy never likes Frank. Now, there’s mateship!
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