re: #140 Belafon

Prayer. A meaningless gesture for anything other than “Hey, God, I just wanted to let you know I’m trying to do the best I can but understand I’m not perfect. Please help me do your will.” (my summary of Jesus’ prayer)

Speaking of which, the village (minus my wife and me and the other godless heathens who work for the village government) are gathering across the street from my house for Sunday services. I’m safe, my curtains are closed.

This place is very unusual for a conservative, deeply red state area. Atheists and agnostics make up both the majority of the elected officials, and all of the employees. (No we don’t discriminate against religious people in hiring practices for the village.)

I can’t figure it out. The majority of the people in the village are members of either the Lutheran Church across the street from my house, or the Catholic or Greek Orthodox Churches in the county seat, but they elect atheists and agnostics. (Shame they don’t elect more Democrats than me, but you can’t have everything I guess.) The village doesn’t care that the employees are all atheists. (Fancy that, they care the employees do their jobs.)

I scratch my head frequently over how such a deeply conservative and religious area as this has such an unusual government makeup for any city (even in godless Vermont [tm] I doubt you could find a city with no religious people in the employment of a city).