Politico Plagued by Rookie Mistakes!

Roger Simon attacks John Edwards for praying as a Christian:

What was missing from Edwards' prayer - Politico.com: Does John Edwards include Jews in his prayers? Or Muslims? Or Hindus?  Or any other non-Christians? He didn’t the other day. The other day, in order to commemorate those killed at Virginia Tech, Edwards led a prayer “in Christ’s name” at Ryman Auditorium, which bills itself as “Nashville’s Premier Performance Hall.”

Edwards has a perfect right to pray publicly or privately any way he wants to. But people who are not Christians often feel left out of prayers like his. And if prayers are supposed to comfort, I wonder how comforted the loved ones of Liviu Librescu felt. Librescu, a professor at Virginia Tech, was gunned down after barricading the doorway of his classroom so his students could escape out the windows. Librescu was a Holocaust survivor, a Jew, and not addressed by Edwards’ prayer.

I went down the list of the other victims and I saw students whose hometowns were listed as being in Indonesia, India and Egypt. And it is quite possible they may have been Hindus or Muslims or a number of other non-Christian religions. Edwards probably did not know the religions of those killed at Virginia Tech when he gave his prayer, but isn’t that the point? Why not include all religions in your prayers?...

Mr. Simon seems not to know that prayers must be addressed to a god in whom one believes: a prayer to a God in whom one does not believe is the ultimate in insincerity.

Comments

[Barry]

And if he had taken into account those of other religions, he'd have been accused of pandering.

[Ross Emmett]

I once attended a convocation where a minister prayed, stumbling over his words because he knew there were several faiths in the audience, "to our IDEAS". Total disaster of a prayer. Brad is right that it is better to pray to the God that the person praying believes in, than to try to pray to something that all can agree on. People of faith will understand. I only hope that the service also included invocations from those of other faiths as well.

[anne]

No; these are not rookie mistakes, these are we can clearly see a pattern of personal political attacks on John Edwards as taught so well by Republicans and surely to be followed by more attacks. We have another would-be Fox News.

[anne]

Darn, this is really a disgraceful attack.