A Constitutional Law Classroom in 2018

California State University, Fullerton

Professor, do you believe God knows the future?

Sure.

Then what's the point of praying?

[The professor smiled].

Great question. The point of praying is that we can be a part of what God is doing here to redeem the world. So, for instance, in the Civil War, who should win?

You're asking me...

Yes.

Okay...the North.

The Republicans. Good. Okay, and God knows the future right? God's God. Let's pray right now that the Republicans won the Civil War back then. God will see our prayer in the future, right now, and he knows we will pray, back then, and we can be a part of winning the Civil War and freeing the slaves right now. Give me your hand.

"Lord, we ask that you would give the righteous Republicans, your servants in this great war so long ago, victory over the Satanic Democrats who want to enslave mankind. And we ask this in Jesus name."

[Students look horrified/puzzled/shocked/amazed/entertained/ engaged/loving it]

The professor continued,

"And LORD, we ask for your deliverance of that evil Democratic Segregation Lord. We ask you to deliver our nation from the scourge of racism and depravity attendant to the evil of slavery--our evil. Lord forgive us for the sin of our past. Please Lord, give our Republican generals in WW2 victory back then over Nazism and Japanese fascism. Eisenhower. MacArthur. Raise them up. Be with our troops in battle right now back then Lord. Give us victory over North Korea in that terrible fight back then. And raise up a leader even in the person of a former Democrat, Ronald Reagan. To have victory over the Soviets in the Cold War. Lord, please end the evil empire. End It. End the worst regime of structuralized slavery and Satanism the world has ever seen. Protect us from nuclear holocaust. Please forgive us our national and local sins, Lord. And Lord, in the 2016 election. Please deliver us back then from the evil of total political destruction. Please give us a candidate back then who will BREAK the human chains of political correctness and begin to drain the swamp of corruption and unrepresentative depravity in Washington and in the state capitols. In Jesus name, please do this back then. Because we know that you can see this now, and so we join in those struggles back then. We identify with then, right now in Jesus name. And we thank you for allowing us to be a part of your work, back then, right now. Thank you Lord."

[Total silence].

And the professor, face red from prayer, said, "Now you can take some credit for all that. God allowed us the privilege of being a part of that, now, back then, because he saw the future. We just helped to elect..."

Wait ! the students said.

[And a wonderful 45 minute discussion ensued that they never forgot].

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Originally published to Facebook Saturday April 21, 2018 at 10:18 am