Do you think you might be reduced to prayer, secret, silent, or otherwise, on behalf of an Obama victory on election night?

95 replies on “Dear Fellow Atheists”

  2. the only thing for which i pray is that humans may wake from their infantile superstitions in time to save ourselves from the dark night of oblivion.

  3. I’m sure it will be like every other Atheist Sunday I have. I’m not sure if it’s true prayer.

    “Come on… Come on… You motherfuckers, come on… God Damnit the Vikings suck!”

  4. Oh hell yeah. Been praying about this election for some time now anyway… Why should I stop on the 4th? (Anyone care to predict how long they’ll take to count the hanging chads or whatever this time around – a week? Two? Three?)

    And: I don’t consider myself being “reduced” to prayer. It’s more like “rising” to it.

  6. I think I shall be praying to the sidewalk water fountain at Broadway and John. Unlike god, it actually exists and can be touched (not that I would, ewwww).

  7. @snoozebar: Nice. I wasn’t expecting that somebody would get it. +1 internets for you.

    Also, this week’s review just came out, in case you haven’t watched it already. =P

  8. No need. Just keep working/fighting up until the balloting is done. Then work/fight to verify the votes.

    That’s more useful than praying.

  9. What do you expect, that some magical version of Santa Claus in the sky is going to swoop down and influence the election results just because you asked for it? That’s retarded. Either commit to being an atheist and reject superstitious nonsense or go hold hands with the Antioch Bible Church crowd at their election night pray-in.

  11. @20: You think you can find virgin Republicans? It would certainly be worth trying. If it doesn’t work, well, at least there will be 7 fewer Republicans.

  14. Being a cultural Catholic, if not in actual belief, I believe I might be reduced to prayer on election night asking for Obama to win. Maybe it’s just habit. If not to God, then to any random deity in hopes that someone or something might be listening. That may contradict my atheism, but so be it.

  15. I’m agnostic, but I’ll be secretly praying to God, the Tooth Fairy, Santa Clause, and any Genie I can find in a bottle. We need all the help we can get

  16. @53: OMG I just laughed soooo hard.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Not gonna pray, but gonna drink and cringe. Drink and cringe. TheN maybe get pissed or excited. Just like watching any sports event. ;p

    If he wins, I know I am going to cry. Damnit.

  18. If by ‘pray’ you mean ‘get high and spend way too much time analyzing up-to-the minute poll numbers and breaking stories,’ the answer is YES.

  19. Jesus Christ! Goddamnit! Okay, I’m done with praying!

    To hold on to what miniscule amount of sanity we all have left, here are my suggestions: just get stoned and vote for what we know is right (well, smoke AFTER voting, we don’t want any stupid mistakes!)-calm down-meditate on life and shit-smoke some more, and may as well drink too-listen to some kick-ass music-try not to hold our breath-and get ready, for whatever may happen!

    If you are like me, you sway between total conviction that Obama will win, to abject horror that at the last minute McCain will win.

    I want to believe in my fellow people, but we see and hear about so many total idiots every day that it is very hard to keep thinking that good will prevail!

    I have some Republican family members (our curse), and here is an example of their stupidity. “I had lunch with Sarah Palin at a Republican function in Alaska once-she is so sweet and nice-she will totally make a great vice president!”

    I had no idea that the perception of someone being sweet and nice was a qualification for vice president!

    I’m trying not to be negative, but just sayin!

  20. I do not believe in a creator/ omnipotent/ omniscient God, but I do believe in the existence of a spiritual entity or entities that can help us in some ways and give us information through certain oracles. I have found that when I need an answer to a vexing question with only two possible answers it works to ask the spirits, designate which answer is to be indicated by heads and which by tails, and flip a coin. Because I know that coins are normally random I typically repeat the process for confirmation- and this has never once resulted in a reversal of the given answer. When dealing with more complicated questions I recommend the I Ching.

    I am not sure of whether prayers are efficacious, but they can’t hurt.

  23. Barrack will win.
    This atheist is praying for God to smote the violent kooks for the next eight years and forever. I want to start seeing some lightning bolts engaged in some choice smoting at Palin rallies. I wanna see crispy smoking confederate flags and exploded KKKers. I want deadly poisonous frogs to rain down on “Obama is a Muslim” t-shirts. I want pillars of salt and swarms of locusts and teeth for teeth and eyes for eyes. I’m praying for God to go all Old Testament on the haters and make them all too scared to leave their fortified bunkers.

    I will totally become a Believer if this happens.

  26. I say go for it. I’m dyed in the wool atheist, but atheism is not a belief. it is a lck thereof. hence, we have no limitations with what we can and cannot do in the realm of faith. should we feel like getting all Catholic somedays, or Buddhist, we can. there is nothing threatening us with eternal damnation for straying from atheism. this is why I never got people who are atheists yet abstain from phrases such as “I swear to God”, “OMG”, etc. those phrases still serve a purpose and are a useful tool to express oneself. there’s better activities you can be doing than policing your language.

    prayer above all things shows positive feeling and a gesture of goodwill. as someone else said, it can never hurt. it shown that it can help, even if the extent of it’s help is dubious. it would be better served for our outlook (and stomach lining) for all of us to make positive proclaimtions of things we hope to be true, rather than sabotaging ourselves with doubt.

  29. I won’t pray, but I do intend to unleash all of my Aspergers/OCD/Tourettes rocking, clapping, snapping, hooting, pacing, and explosive swearing tendencies. I’ll try to do this at home.

  33. No. I only talk to god during sex. Unless Obama or his lovely wife is available for a bit of election-night tension-release. . . no . . . no election-related piety from me.

Comments are closed.