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Pray for reason

Pray for Reason wants us to counter the prayers of the pro-Bush religious folks with our own prayers:

Why are we collecting this information? The Presidential Prayer Team website has collected 2.8 million pledges to pray for unreasonable religious fervor. There are 300 million people in this country, which means that there are 297 million people who probably do not want our foreign policies to resemble a holy war. We want to counteract the affect of the Presidential Prayer Team by amassing as many reasonable people as possible.

It's hard to tell this site and the ones it's countering from parody, which is a little disturbing...

(Thanks to Mark Dionne for the link.)

Posted at 11:47 AM | Email this entry | Category: Campaign 2004

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