News stories inform us that some groups have taken to holding prayer services for lower prices at gas stations and, in one case, at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C. While the news reporters continue to chuckle over this, can someone tell me how such a ritual differs from what voters expect either Barack Obama or John McCain to accomplish? That people expect either prayer or predation to bestow economic well-being upon the nation reminds me of the “cargo cult” in some south Pacific cultures i.e., where natives, having seen ships and/or airplanes arriving with all sorts of material … Continue reading Prayer at the Pump