Worshiping Government: Biden omits name of God from National Day of Prayer proclamation
The Democrats have steadily been marginalizing faith or, trying to push it underground for year; Biden is first president to not name God in the Proclamation
Biden’s faith is for political appearances, and he often makes a show of prayer and piety. Yet this week he left God’s name out of his proclamation for Thursday’s National Day of Prayer. (Photo: David Searcey/Washington TImes)
Joe Biden — who claims to be a devout Catholic — left the name of God out of his first proclamation National Day of Prayer. He is the first president ever to do so.
Moreover, using the CCP virus as an excuse, Biden didn’t hold the prayer breakfast either, a tradition begun by President Harry S. Truman.
It should come as no surprise. Since 1992, the Fascist Democrat Party has been trying to eliminate the name of the Creator from their every-fourth-year presidential platform. In 2012, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) submitted a position paper that blatantly left His name out and, unlike previous times, initially refused to put it back. Heavy pressure and the threat of Republicans using it against them finally forced the party to return God to the Democrat platform at the last minute.
Every new Congress since 2004 that has had Nancy Pelosi serving as House Speaker, there has been an effort to remove the name of God from the oath used before House committee hearings when swearing in witnesses. Thus far, those efforts have failed, but in 2019 and this year, the oath was kept by only a couple votes.
Biden typically ends his public remarks with the phrase “May God bless you all, and God protect our troops.” Somehow, however, his decree for Thursday’s day of prayer contained no such acknowledgement of a higher power.
“Prayer has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements — including essential fights against racial injustice, child labor, and infringement on the rights of disabled Americans,” the proclamation read in part. “Let us find in our prayers, however they are delivered, the determination to overcome adversity, rise above our differences, and come together as one Nation to meet this moment in history.”
The omission of God drew critical headlines in the Christian press, and Franklin Graham, the evangelical Christian preacher, spoke out to express disappointment.
“This is the National Day of Prayer. Of course we need to call on God, not just some generic gods, or some power in the air, but on God Himself, the Creator,” Graham said. ‘There’s no one else to pray to except to God.”
Graham speculated that the proclamation might have been written by a staffer and not even reviewed by Biden, saying “I don’t think Joe Biden would approve that one.”
“Omitting God is a dangerous thing. He is who we as individuals and as a nation need to call on for help,” Graham wrote in a Facebook post. “Prayers to anyone or anything else are to no avail.”
The National Day of Prayer, observed on the second Thursday of May each year, is a tradition dating back to the founding of the country, and was codified in its current form in a 1952 law. The tradition welcomes people of all faiths to participate by praying for the country’s leaders and people and give thanks for freedoms and blessings.
Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, signed the first official proclamation of the National Day of Prayer in 1952. (Photo: Associated Press Archive)
Under the law, the president is required to issue a proclamation declaring the observance. President Harry Truman — a deacon in an Independence, Missouri Southern Baptist Church — was the first to issue a National Day of Prayer proclamation in 1952. It suggested Americans "beseech God to grant us wisdom to know the course which we should follow."
Prior proclamations from President Donald Trump and Barack Obama contained multiple references to God. Trump’s invocation of God in the proclamations increased over the course of his term, with five mentions in 2017 and 2018, seven in 2019, and 12 in 2020. All of Obama’s proclamations mentioned God at least once, and some as many as three times.
The fact of the matter is, the Fascist Democrats and their state-run media have made government their god and Congress their place of worship.
Despite Obama’s reluctant adherence to the legal requirements of the day of prayer, he made several statements that indicated his disdain for Christianity, including the famed “guns, God and Bibles” insult to Southern and Midwestern Americans who refused to support him for reelection.
As a whole, Fascists on the Left are troubled by the Christian faith to the point they want to either drive it underground or replace it with some fake version of Christianity. Those are not mutually exclusive goals. Either way, America is brought to the brink of a secular nation that worships government rather than Jesus Christ.
Biden and others who pursued the Democrat Party nomination — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) and Vice-President Kamala Harries (d-CA) — invoked Christianity on the campaign trail only when they wanted to shill for taxpayer-funded, unrestricted abortion, the family values of Sodom, and confiscation of wealth for redistribution.
The media made no effort to challenge those un-Christian efforts despite the fact the vast majority of Americans continue to claim Christianity as their faith worldview. One wants to shout at the media: Why weren’t Democrats asked what they thought of Drag Queen Story Hour? Anyone?
Crickets.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the Democratic National Committee adopted a resolution in August 2020 hailing the “religiously unaffiliated” as the “largest religious group within the Democratic Party, growing from 19 percent in 2007 to one in three today.”
In August 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led the Fascist Democrats in celebrating a supposed rise in the number of American atheists, essentially telling Christian voters they didn’t care about them. (Photo: Maria Hernandez/Sacramento Bee)
That’s great news for those Democrats who would love to replace worship of God with worship of the state.
The DNC resolution declares “that morals, values, and patriotism are not unique to any particular religion, and are not necessarily reliant on having a religious worldview at all.”
Really? So, where did American morals and values come from? The DNC might want to try to identify areas of the world not influenced by Christianity or Judaism that have nonetheless embraced the sanctity of life, individual rights, free markets, self-government and women’s rights.
They’ll be looking for a long time.
Many nonbelievers are patriotic, have strong personal integrity and strong opinions. But the moralistic language they use is derived from the very faiths that they claim have no value. If everyone has his or her own “truth,” and everything is relative, who can say what’s right or wrong?
The Declaration of Independence credits God as the one Source of justice, stating that, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Likewise, as John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
That’s because the U.S. Constitution’s design for maximum human liberty works only when the people have a moral compass beyond their own appetites. Absent that, we can rationalize anything.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports,” George Washington wrote in his Farewell Address. “And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”
Based on concepts enshrined in British Common Law, tenets the great English jurist William Blackstone traced to the Bible, Christians led the campaign to end worldwide slave trade. Christian missionaries went to the four corners of the Earth and created hospitals and clinics. They criminalized infanticide, child marriage, child and spousal abuse, gladiatorial combat, death games and immolation of widows, to name a few reforms. Some also behaved very badly, justifying their inhumanity by misusing the Bible.
The American Revolution led to a hunger for self-governance that rocked the world. It’s not for nothing that brave Chinese dissident students erected a model of the Statue of Liberty in Tiananmen Square.
Contrary to the claims of today’s Fascist Democrats, the Founders and Framers openly expressed their Christian faith and said the U.S. could not survive without the hand of God on the nation. Photo: “Washington as Stateman”/Jackson Pollock)
The DNC’s resolution calls for “rational public policy based on sound science and universal humanistic values.” Science is, indeed, marvelous. The Fascist Left in the U.S. makes no acknowledgment that the scientific method arose in Christian countries precisely because of the biblical view that we exist in an ordered universe with a discoverable design and Designer.
Finally, before the Democrats embrace atheism as their new-found faith, they might want to take a closer look at the survey they celebrated in August.
A few polls show that up to 25 percent now choose “atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’” when asked about religious affiliation. However, this may be very misleading. The wide “nothing in particular” category also includes people who are Christians but have found no specific denomination in which they feel comfort.
The Pew Research Center’s latest figures show that only three percent of the U.S. population actually identify as atheist or agnostic, notes Glenn Stanton, a researcher at Focus on the Family,
“Yes, there has been a sizable increase here over the last decade, but that’s up from only 1.6 percent of all adults,” he writes. “Comparatively, if you could fit all the serious Christians in the United States on a couple of Greyhound buses, all the atheists could fit in the backseat of a Prius with room to spare.”
People who were nominal Christians in mainline denominations now describe themselves as unaffiliated, or “nones.” Meanwhile, evangelical churches are growing rapidly.
“Robust Christianity is not shrinking, not even among young adults,” Mr. Stanton writes. “It is holding quite firm and even growing in many important ways. It is increasingly liberalized, orthodoxy-denying, and lukewarm faith that’s tanking as if it has a mill stone around its neck.”
That’s something to think about when the Democrats celebrate unbelief in their midst, trot out pagan customs masquerading as Christian tolerance or decide to leave the name of God out of a National Day of Prayer proclamation.