I’m a little late in blogging about this but I just noticed it yesterday and it ticked me off so much I had to say something. Who the heck does this guy think he’s praying to?

Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was “horrified” at how “specifically and aggressively Christian they were.”
“I am very clear,” he said, “that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I won’t be quoting Scripture or anything like that. The texts that I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.”
Bishop Robinson said he might address the prayer to “the God of our many understandings,” language that he said he learned from the 12-step program he attended for his alcohol addiction.

I can understand that he doesn’t want to exclude people of other faiths but the problem is that eventually you have to pray to the God you believe in because they aren’t all the same. The God of the Bible is a jealous God who doesn’t want us to worship (or pray) to other Gods:

ESV Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
ESV Deuteronomy 4:23 Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
ESV John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

And he isn’t pleased when we try to please men at the expense of pleasing him:

ESV Luke 9:26 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

You’d think a bishop of the Episcopal church would know this and not say that he is “horrified” by Christian prayers. What good does it do praying to God when he won’t listen to you because you refuse to worship him alone?
BTW, Obama could have included clerics of other faiths to pray to their gods if he wanted to be inclusive. He doesn’t need a Christian to do it for him.