What a fantastic result regarding Council Prayers – And listen to the little lambs bleating! Their undisguised outrage is very revealing isn’t it?.
Nobody saying they can’t prey: nobody’s telling them their faith is outlawed; there’s nothing stopping them from having that quiet chat with the particular invisible friend of their choosing in the car before entering the Council offices – or in a seperate room with like-minded others ahead of Council business.
If this ‘please tell us how to think’ chat is so important to them you’d imagine they could get there five minutes early – on their own time – wouldn’t you.
I suspect what’s really cheesing them off is the fact that they can no longer appear ‘special’; ‘set apart’, ‘superior’. They can’t inflict their beliefs on the rest. They can’t steal that little moment just before getting down to business to impose their brand of ‘thinking’ on lesser mortals.
And you’d think their sky-mate would give them a better argument than ‘It should be done because we’ve always done it’ wouldn’t you. Makes you wonder how we ever got rid of ducking stools if that is the kind of thinking we have to be guided by.