Blogcritics: Comments on Pray Before Play: The New Amendment

Comment by bhw

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:17:11 EST

Thanks, but I actually thought it was your idea, Shark, when you said "insert yours". But now I think you meant to insert your god.... Oh well, maybe you'll get some good sumbissions anyway. 8-)

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:51:59 EST

I enjoyed the couple who worship color in A Mighty Wind - which is blowing you and me, by the way - which seemed a pretty benign use of psychic energy and didn't seem to involve the demonization of nonbelievers or condemnation into a colorless pit of some kind. I was somewhat disappointed that laundry detergent didn't figure into their sacrament in any way.

Comment by Shark

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:44:12 EST

Tom, thanks for the comment. Now lighten up. bhw, great idea! This post is now soliciting any and all submissions of prayers -- no matter how loony or marginal the particular religion might be. Feeling blue because I failed to include your favorite brand? Was your particular cult left out? Want to include a few words for some invisible aliens and their earthly playmate, L. Ron Hubbard? Want to unload some 'knowledge' you memorized from that 70 volume set of writings by Madame Blavatsky? Fire away! (note: all invocations become property of Shark, until such time as Eric claims them in court)

Comment by bhw

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:44:21 EST

Some religions are "tolerated" more than others, Tom. Here's my prayer, Shark: Recovering Catholic girl/tuba player, smoking pot with the percussionists, prays for deliverance from pergatory: "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, please don't make us sit through this shit again at graduation. Isn't playing 'Pomp and Circumstance' ad nauseum penance enough?"

Comment by Tom

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:36:47 EST

Interesting. I believe it is opening a sort of pandora's box, but I also believe the supposed freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion. We are blessed that we have moral religious foundatoin of government with a secular society which is free to express themselves religiously. All religions are pretty much tolerated here, and we are the better for it.