To those bemoaning the presence of the divine in the inauguration

[longship]

182. To those lamely justifying turning the inauguration into a fucking church service

What I am reading is nothing but a bunch of non sequiturs.

It doesn't matter how many presidents prayed or had prayers said at their inaugurations.

It fucking does not matter how many people in the US are Christians, or Jews, or Moslems, or Buddhists, or atheists. What matters is that we are a country with all of them. That is what all of you who bow down on your knees whenever President Obama invokes God are forgetting. you hear and see validation in your own belief, and that makes you feel really good.

I feel sorry for you when you look to an elected official for validation. If, in 2016 for instance, if a Buddhist were elected president, would you embrace that, too? Or, maybe he or she really was a Moslem? Would you embrace a Jew or a Moslem or a Seventh Day Adventist who postponed his or her inaugural because it happened on a Saturday the same way that presidential inaugurations have been postponed because they've happened on the Christian sabbath, Sunday?

I see nothing but hypocrisy here, the only solution to which is to cast off the religious veil from our country's most important sacrament -- so to speak. It is by law a secular event. Since the first, people have attempted to turn into precisely what the founding of our nation stood against, that God gave somebody the right to lead us. If you disagree, read again that treasonous document signed during the summer of 1776 which, at its core, rejected any such divine right.

So wrap your conscience in the comforting blanket of god, but it has no place, and no purpose, in our president's inauguration. That's what set the US apart from the rest.

How silly it is to not see this. How naive it is to not be uncomfortable about it.