Comments on: Hallelujah! Obama did something right! http://www.bloggernews.net/120806 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:30:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/120806#comment-1214898 Nancy Reyes Mon, 11 May 2009 11:46:17 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/120806#comment-1214898 You state:a day of prayer suggested that the government and the president himself needed Divine intervention if this country was to survive. No, many pagan and atheistic governments have pubic reverence to recognize that there is a something higher than the leadeer, be it rule of law in ancient Rome or the mandate of heaven in ancient China. Public reverence means that the head of government acknowledges that he is not a superman over those who must obey him, or a dictator who can do anything he wants, but a man who is restrained under the laws of heaven, and that there is someone or something who judges his actions. You state:a day of prayer suggested that the government and the president himself needed Divine intervention if this country was to survive.

No, many pagan and atheistic governments have pubic reverence to recognize that there is a something higher than the leadeer, be it rule of law in ancient Rome or the mandate of heaven in ancient China.

Public reverence means that the head of government acknowledges that he is not a superman over those who must obey him, or a dictator who can do anything he wants, but a man who is restrained under the laws of heaven, and that there is someone or something who judges his actions.

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