“God save us from tolerance and deliver us to division.”

It seems we sit down and pray

“God save us from tolerance

and deliver us to division.”

Then turn our eyes to the stage of the nation

and glory in an answered prayer.

Interesting how accidentally capable we are

of answering our own prayers.

Or making them happen

one way or another.

Interesting too how evangelical Christians

and evangelical atheists

say the same thing,

just with different words.

They say,

“I’m right and you’re wrong.”

And sometimes follow up with,

“your words bounce off me and stick to you.”

The non-religious have realized

that religious people are close minded.

They have yet to realize,

though,

that an "open-minded" perspective

is a declaration in itself,

and sometimes,
inherent in that declaration,

is a closing of the mind.

It seems someone must be wrong

for someone to be right.