Each year people from every walk of life, regardless of religion
or political affiliation, gather for a National Day of Prayer
that’s held on the first Thursday in May. Hoping to capitalize
on the attention given to the National Day of Prayer, the
American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition of
America “are joining forces to combat the National Day of Prayer
by promoting the National Day of Reason.” The history of prayer
for our nation goes back to at least 1775 when the Continental
Congress asked the colonies to pray for wisdom in forming a new
nation. The day was officially recognized in 1952 when President
Harry Truman signed into law a proclamation for an annual day of
prayer. Now the atheists want in on the action. They are
claiming that we can solve our problems with reason alone. The
reason-alone approach has been tried before with bloody results.
The Enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century
rejected the Christian religion and declared reason to be
supreme. “Europe disintegrated