Freethought Dayton

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Montana is dealing with drought, wildfire risk, collapsing water levels, and the growing reality of climate instability, and the official response from the governor is basically: “Alright everybody, hands together, eyes closed, let’s see if the sky feels generous.”

Again, people can pray if they want. Nobody cares. Pray in your truck. Pray on your porch. Pray while holding a garden hose pointed at the heavens like you’re trying to negotiate with Zeus. But prayer is not a drought policy. It is not wildfire prevention. It is not infrastructure. It is not environmental planning.

You know what this feels like? One of those medieval villages where everybody’s starving and the king walks out wearing fifteen pounds of gold jewelry like, “We have consulted the monks and determined the dragons are angry.”

Meanwhile the forests are dry as tinder, rivers are shrinking, firefighters are getting hammered every summer, and housing developments keep expanding into fire-prone areas like humanity collectively decided, “Yeah let’s build a subdivision directly inside a campfire.”

And then this line: “Prayer is the most powerful tool we have.”

What are we doing here, Greg? Seriously. Are we running a state government or the tutorial level of a civilization game?

Reservoirs are more powerful. Modern infrastructure is more powerful. Forest management is more powerful. Science is more powerful. Fire mitigation planning is more powerful. Hell, a teenager with a shovel and a basic understanding of irrigation is currently contributing more to drought prevention than this proclamation.

And let’s be honest, if prayer alone fixed droughts, half the American West would look like the goddamn Amazon rainforest by now.

When a public-school-day religious program tells children to be “obedient to the point of death,” parents are allowed to ask questions.

Families have every right to teach their children their faith at home, in church, and through private religious instruction.

But public schools should not be coordinating access to children during the school day for programs that teach obedience, submission, and religious doctrine to elementary students.

This is not about whether families may practice Christianity.

They can.

This is about whether public school systems should be used to normalize private religious instruction during the school day.

Public schools belong to all children; Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, questioning, and every child whose family simply expects school time to remain school time.

Religious freedom requires neutral schools.

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