SHOCK PRAYER: CITY CALLS ON ALLAH, ZEUS,
SATAN

An atheist invited to give the opening prayer at a
Lake Worth, Florida, City Commission meeting
recently called on the “wisdom of Satan” and
declared “if almighty Thor is with us, who can
ever be against us,” a perversion of a New
Testament verse.

It was not altogether surprising as people with
nontraditional beliefs increasingly are demanding
their place in the public square.
But in this case, a number of city commissioners
expressed their opinion of the “invocation” –
without saying a word.
They got up and walked out.
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“Free speech works both ways,” Mayor Pam Triolo
told WPTV after the event. “You can say what you
want, and I can choose to leave.”
The invocation was offered by Miami “anti-theist”
Preston Smith, according to a column by Tim
Brown at Freedom Outpost.
Brown described the statements as “utterly
moronic” and noted that three other
commissioners walked out with Triolo then
returned for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Brown wrote that Smith states people “can create
a better, more equal community without religious
divisions.”
“Of course, we all know that is not what he
wants. He simply wants people not to speak
about God and morality,” Brown wrote.
“Though he mentions Satan, Allah, Buddha, Zeus,
and even Jesus, it all comes down to the fact
that he openly states that he wants people to ‘do
good for goodness sake’ and he doesn’t want to
hear about damnation or judgment.”

Brown said the problem for Smith is that he has
“no authority outside of himself to determine what
is good.”
“Second, by his own logic, he has no means to
impose his view of goodness upon anyone else,”
Brown continued. “He mocked true prayer by
calling on the remaining members and others in
attendance to ‘pray.’ In a similar manner to the
RINOs in the House, who stood by reverently as
an Islamic imam offered a ‘prayer’ to Allah, these
people stood by silently with heads bowed
reverently as Smith demonstrated his foolishness.
”
WPTV said Triolo explained she left not because
of Smith’s beliefs but because of an earlier
Twitter message in which he presented an
offensive interpretation of the Bible. She told the
station she was concerned the “invocation” would
be more of the same.
When the council members walked out, Smith
said, “Duly noted.”
Then Smith said: “Our collective atheism, which is
to say, loving empathy, scientific evidence, and
critical thinking leads us to believe we can create
a better more equal community without religious
divisions. May we pray together.”
He prayed:

Mother Earth, we gather today in your redeeming
and glorious presence to invoke your eternal
guidance in the universe, the original creator of all
things. May the efforts of this council blend the
righteousness of Allah with the all knowing
wisdom of Satan. May Zeus, the great god of
justice, grant us strength tonight. Jesus might
forgive our shortcomings while Buddha enlightens
us through his divine affection.
We praise you Krishna for the sanguine sacrifice
that freed us all. After all, if almighty Thor is with
us, who can ever be against us? And finally for
the bounty of logic, reason and science, we
simply thank the atheists, agnostics, humanists,
who now account for one in five Americans and
growing rapidly.
In closing. Let us above all, love one another, not
to obtain mythical rewards for ourselves now,
hereafter or based on superstitious threats of
eternal damnation, but rather embrace secular-
based principles of morality, and do good for
goodness sake.
And so we pray, so what?
Commissioner Christopher McVoy stayed for the
invocation, saying he felt he had a responsibility
“to respectfully listen.”

But Brown warned that when a nation “forgets
God, God brings judgment upon that nation and
we are seeing it before our eyes … blasphemers,
idolaters, sodomites and other sins and crimes
abound in our nation, and why?”
“The church has not been salt and light, but
rather has pampered herself and whored herself
out, despising the cross of Christ for the
accolades of man,” he said. “It’s time the church
repented and stood against the gates of Hell and
prevailed over them once again. Without such
repentance, there is simply more judgment to
look forward to.”
Smith’s speech has now inspired at least one
other atheist activist, Chaz Stevens, to send an
email to Lake Worth city commissioners, asking
for permission to deliver a Satanic invocation at a
future meeting.

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