The National Day of Prayer versus Fidelity to Reason

By Ari Armstrong

The first Thursday of May, according to a 1952 Congressional resolution, is designated the National Day of Prayer. A website devoted to it says the event “stands as a call for us to humbly come before God, seeking His guidance for our leaders and His grace upon us as a people.”

This is absurd. There is no evidence that a supernatural being exists, much l…