Sir Thomas More wrote this prayer that I thought was interesting

[JohnLocke]

"Oh God, I acknowledge thee to be my creator, my governor, and the source of all good things. I thank Thee for all Thy blessings, but especially for letting me live in the happiest possible society, and practise what I hope is the truest religion. If I am wrong, and some other religion or social system would be better and more acceptable to thee, I pray Thee in Thy goodness to let me know it, for I am willing to follow wherever Thou shalt lead me. But if are system is indeed the best, and my religion the truest, then keep me faithful to both of them, and bring the rest of humanity to adopt the same way of life., and the same religious faith - unless the present variety of creeds is part to Thy inscrutable purpose. Grant me an easy death, when Thou takest me to Thyself. I do not presume to suggest whether it should be late or soon. But if it is Thy will, I would much rather come to Thee by a most painful death, than be kept too long away from Thee by the most pleasant of earthly lives."
--From Utopia

[ogradda]

1. talk about being careful what you wish for....

damn.

[JohnLocke]

2. Kick

[hickman1937]

3. Beheaded by Henry VII

He did that a lot.

[JohnLocke]

4. Henry VIII, actually (nt).

[JohnLocke]

5. Kick

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. Another interesting prayer,

which I think would be very helpful to the neocons who post here, in this their time of sorrow:

The Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I think it would help them to get over their preoccupation with the investigations into the electoral fraud and voter suppression, and move on. The time for grieving should, I think, be over by now. The Republicans need to look to the future. Maybe not 2006, and but some election at a later date, possibly in the first half of this century, I would imagine, could be a plausible horizon.

[UrbScotty]

7. Thank you for posting this. (nt)