Zonie63
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Kirata already posted on it. To bring wisdom, right choices, to their decisions. It is not to make people feel uncomfortable or wasting time. Although you don't prescribe, you may look at it this way, based on their belief system they take the time to ask for knowledge when they are in charge of directing a lot of people. Wouldn't you rather they do the best job they can, instead of worrying what every Tom, Dick or Harry decided how unjust they are, how much time they waste, how wrong it is? They really aren't going to concern about petty things, when the issues they are making decisions on are much larger and not so petty.
Now you can try to understand it or complain about it.
The idea of politicians praying for wisdom is like bankers praying for generosity. There are some people who might join certain churches because they think it might help their career or business. They look and act the part quite well, even if they don't actually practice those beliefs or even believe at all. Politicians can be expected to do that, too, and frankly, I find many politicians quite shrewd in how they pander along those lines.
I think I can understand it pretty well, and even if the Supreme Court has decided matter Constitutionally (although that doesn't mean the ruling can't be reversed at some point later on), one could also complain about it as being hypocritical and deceptive. It seems just like more shameless pandering, and it seems that some Christians are cheering about being pandered to. So many of them send their hard-earned money to crooked televangelists and also support crooked politicians - all because they're so clever in whipping a little Jesus talk to dazzle and delight the hoi polloi. And the Christian public just eats it up like milk served to kittens.
And while many keep railing against the U.S. government, they don't seem to see the connection between the activities of the government and these various jackals and phonies they keep voting for, election after election. That's one problem I find with the idea of "faith," is that it seems to produce a certain naive blindness and gullibility which is both touching and infuriating when it's applied to the electoral process.
It's not that I'm unsympathetic, and I know many Christians who are more street-wise and can easily see through the lies and BS of politicians who pander like that. But so many others just seem so easily led.
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OH no you found out the secret, we are all witch doctors, with tiny voo doo dolls in our back pocket, You are silly. SILLY. Maybe not as silly as me, but silly. 
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