Praying pretty much sucks the fun out of most religious activity, like a portly and spoilt child sucks cream from a chocolate éclair. Instead of prayer, could we not substitute any one of the following?
- T-ball
- Competitive cooking/baking
- Beat boxing/glossolalia
- Slapping contest
- Air guitar shred-off
Perhaps you can see a common theme. Modern religion being community-oriented seems to have forgotten, or perhaps has attempted to suppress, our natural inclination to compete; especially in ridiculous events suited largely for adolescent teens, attention whores, or carnies (or all three).
Perhaps we can add to this list:
- Lipsynching
- Karate
- Building a mousetrap-powered vehicle
- Disco dance marathon
- Skip rope for heart
- Rock, Paper, Scissors Presents: Best Two out of Three
- Root beer chug
- All American pie eat
- Noogies
- Archery
- Friendly rough-housing, "clowning around", etc.
- Dragonboat, Dragonball, Dragonski, what-have-you
- Reading a book aloud, one chapter at a time
Anything, and I mean
anything, has got to be better than repeating psalms. Am I right?
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