Thank You God For Sunoco

One of the sillier expressions of religious “piety” is the grand old American tradition of the pre-event invocation.  In government and school settings, it’s undoubtedly unconstitutional.  Private groups can do what they want, but that doesn’t make the tradition any less laughable.

Thanks to reader Geoffrey Newman, I have the great honor to bring you what is most certainly the most entertaining invocation in the history of that ridiculous custom.  It illustrates both the commercialism of religion in the hands of our corporate overlords and the utter meaninglessness of the whole thing.

Part of me thinks that this pastor might secretly be one of us.  The prayer is just that ludicrous.  If he is, and someone knows him, please encourage him to call me.  We could use someone with that sense of humor among the emerging non-theistic clergy!

My guess is that he’s just a good ol’ boy trying to get a laugh with the only material he knows.  And if it’s not a parody it is surely one of the best examples of just how farcical the entire invocation enterprise really is.

And let us close by saying, “Oogity boogity boogity.  Amen.”