Pious and Stoic

Larry Tanner responds to a kitschy graphic being passed around on Facebook depicting a beautiful cherub of a girl praying for a solution to such little-girl concerns as high gas prices, low employment, and separation of church and state.

Then let me be serious and straightforward: go away with your fake prayers and your god-bothering. You want America’s problems to disappear magically. You want it all fixed, but without any cost to you or your friends. Most of all, you want to appear pious and stoic.

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It is somewhat ironic that some adult, pondering this array of real world grown-up concerns, didn’t put any effort into working for a read solution but instead created a graphic of a child asking someone else to do any real work that might be necessary.