Why try, let's just drop to our knees

In response to Elizabeth Pearson's July 7 Fence Post "Put your faith in god, not man," I give you kudos Ms. Pearson. Constantly, I find myself in discussions about the poor economy and otherwise frustrating state of the nation. Furthermore, those same discussions eventually turn into debates on what could possibly be done to fix said problems.

But I now know what the real answer is, thanks to Ms. Pearson's plea for us to drop to our knees and pray daily. Instead of daily, why not go one further and make it 5 times daily. That seems to have brought an overwhelming calm to the Middle East, don't you think?

Or perhaps we should continue to praise her god, who "blessed us abundantly above any other nation" and forget the fact that despite the all-encompassing love he displays in the New Testament, he apparently deemed other nations unworthy and struck them with disease, famine and poverty.

Maybe at the end of our daily prayers we could also thank her wonderful god for being at the center of an ongoing world unrest that has people killing their own kind in his name.

I love Ms. Pearson's idea so much, I'm even willing to forget the fact that the nation she inhabits was founded by a group of men who retained strong doubt as to the existence of a god and specifically wrote our laws to prevent religion from playing any part whatsoever in our governing process.

Contrary to the activism, protesting, outreach and voting that our forefathers - and my parents' generation - preferred, I say we do away with all that proactive talk of being hardworking and not giving up. Besides, why try when we can just drop to our knees and have all our problems solved?

Joe Bauer

Naperville