For the past year or so I have often passed, while driving or walking, signs that state "Prayer, America's Only Hope." The thought always bothered me, then saddened me and finally angered me. To actually believe that the only hope our nation has is prayer is so short sighted and untrue. Not that I'm knocking prayer or saying that it doesn't have a place; I'm just stating that there is so much more.
Is there no hope in our future generations of children, scientific and medical advances, knowledge that is always evolving, love, compassion, newborn babies etc, etc, etc. It actually angers me to think that there are people who actually believe that unless we all fall to our knees and pray to God to redeem us, that we have no hope. I realize this is a reaction to Barack Obama's slogan of hope; however, I still think it is a wrong statement. I certainly don't pin very many hopes on Barack Obama except the small hope our nation experienced by actually electing a man of color. Perhaps our greatest hope lies in actually investing as much in education and infrastructure as we do on our war machine.
This nation has endured the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the practice of slavery, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement and many other upheavals. It may not always be an imperial power (which would be a good thing), but we do have hope.
Thought for the day: Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
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