My brother-in-law lives in Freeport, Texas, an area that has been gripped by a severe drought.
The intrepid Governor of Texas, Richard (Dick) Perry, has been making a spate of public exhortations for God to bring rain to his drought-stricken state, showing how "holy" he is on the national media circuit. (Of course, it doesn't occur to the Dick why God has struck Texas with a drought in the first place, if he has that power.)
This is the letter I sent him, recommending he and other Texans tell the Dick to shut up.
Hey Mike,
Tell your governor if he wants to break the drought in Texas, tell him to quit testing his god by praying for rain.
He prayed for rain, and Tropical Storm Don veered at the last minute, going into northern Mexico to relive their drought.
He did it more, and Hurricane Irene ploughed into North Carolina, right into an area that has had a bad a drought as Texas. North Carolina suffered severe damage, but the drought is over.
He did it yet more, and Tropical Storm Lee went into Louisiana. At one time the storm even turned southeast, basically making a circle around all of Louisiana to ensure they got rain and relieved their drought.
Now there is a new Cape Verde system the Weather Service predicts will be organised into a Tropical Cyclone within forty-eight hours. It has several days to track across the Atlantic, currently located between 25-35 deg W and 3-13 deg N.
Don’t let him foul this up for you; write a letter to the paper telling him to get off his God pulpit and shut up. If Dick believes God has the power to relieve the drought, quit bugging God and let him do it rather than wasting God's time listening to the Dick.
(We Discordians don't pray much; prayer is extremely dangerous. A prayer might get answered, and then we'd have to pay the price.)
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
