Orlando police department turns to prayer to help solve crime

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-prayer09_107oct09,0,3423032.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout

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Starting Wednesday evening and continuing for 40 nights, {Orlando police Chaplain Andrew}Wade and his fellow chaplains will join volunteers standing in Parramore Heritage Park, in the heart of one of Orlando's most troubled areas, and pray for the end of crime.

Wade said this is not just a feel-good, symbolic gesture.

"There is a fight in the supernatural that is affecting us here in the physical world," he said.

"This is a clarion call to people of faith. Let us join together. Let's ask God to change the hearts and minds of men."
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This is what it's come to. IMHO, this is the equivalent of a city endorsed rain dance - although I think I've read reports of local governments doing that also. So what happens when Orlando's crime rate continues at its current pace? Can I sue God for not answering prayer to keep me safe from crime?

"Nothing fails like prayer" :evilgrin:

"Great God, Grant that twice two be not four."

I miss Carl.

I like Dawkins, but Sagan had the wit, charm and wording to put it perfectly.

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hmmmm.. what COULD go wrong here:eyes:

how much do you folks want to bet that they are underfunded?

Now THAT would prove something!

Then we could solve all the world's problems - war, hunger, poverty, etc.

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To me it looks like really desperate people reaching for anything they can to stop the madness. In circumstances like that, I can see how people raised with faith would find that a comfort.

Truly stopping the spiral of violence? Decriminalize drugs. That would do more to stop mothers from crying in front of their son's coffins than anything other act, including building prisons or putting more cops on the street. Too bad like certain other effective actions, it's 'off the table'.

It's one thing if a group of churches got together to do this. But for the Orlando Police Department to be organizing this just smacks of church & state crap.

What Orlando (or any city) needs are professional crime-fighters. What they have is apparently a collection of witch-doctors and faith-healers.

Bet they haven't thought of that, eh? Eh?

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New Orleanians have been praying for an awfully loooooong time.