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interesting piece in the phoenix new times which talks about
arizona state representative he's a democrat
uh... his name is one mendez
he's an atheist
and he was asked to deliver an opening prayer
in the house of representatives and
doing a prayer he talked about the secular humanist tradition and actually
quoted carl sagan this is pretty pretty paul and i say
he said most prayers in the room begin with a request about your heads
i would like to ask that you not bow your heads i would like to ask that you
take a moment to look around the room
and all of the men and women here in this moment sharing together this
extraordinary experience of being alive
and of dedicating ourselves to working toward improving the lives of the people
in our
uh... as you can imagine as as we know based on a lot of old the proposals that
come out of arizona there let brett legislature is
very happily controlled by religion heavy right wingers yuck
so it's particularly interesting for him to to do this and he went on he said
this is a room in which there are many challenging the debates many moments of
tension of ideological division of frustration
but this is also a broom whereas my secular humanist humanist tradition
stresses
by the very fact of being human
we have much more in common and we have differences we share the same spectrum
of potential for care
for compassion for fear for joy for a lot and they went on to call carl sagan
same costigan once wrote for small creatures such as we
the fastest is bearable only through la i hope today marks the beginning of a
new era in which arizona's non-believers can feel is welcome in valued here
believers
arizona one of the states that most desperately need some trace of secular
humanism don't you think
i'm glad no one in that room stood up and shot him
well of course they're all
very responsible gun owners are no doubt yeah
no question about it interesting very very cool story out of uh... arizona
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