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Sunday, August 17, 2014

VIDEO, Xscript - My First Invocation - Anyone's Invocation Calls for Gods of All People

Here's how it all started.  I saw that the local City Council held near 100% Xtian invocation prayers starting every meeting with a full audience.  Most were delivered by clergy or church folk - and some by council members and staff.  In August 2012, I used my credentials as a church musician to get myself a spot on the rotation.  I did not reveal my heretical inclinations.  I used the occasion to call for blessing of MANY gods and goddess (and none at all) on the assembly.  Months later, I delivered the same invocation before the Escambia County Commission.  Here's the transcript and video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht6k5uVuRA&list=UUCxEMj3lTSVh3BMSVmjgbaQ



Anyone's Invocation
(thank you,             )   heads bowed...
Mother, father, gods of ALL people,
we come today   in our humble way   to shape a small part of your creation
Gathering to a task, in your diverse and glorious presence,
together we invoke your unique blessings   and your life essence

May the efforts of this council blend
the justness of Allah    with the wisdom of Odin
May Mithra the everlasting   ground them with the grace of mother Gaia
May Yahweh forgive their shortcomings    and Beddru foresee their salvation
MAKE light their mission,   Brahma and Dionysus
and imbue each decision     with the mercy of Isis

Whatever your virtues,   name or form,
may we be worthy    of this wholly equal assemblage
BaHA and Elohim we beseech you     Krishna and Ek Onkar,  come
illuminate our civic path    by moon, water, earth and sun

And we praise YOU,    Jehovah of Christ,     Huītzilopōchtli, and Ba'al
for the sanguine sacrifice    that frees us all
And for the bounty of reason, science and logic,  we thank the ONE deity
none of us knows,      that of humanist, atheist and agnostic

Divine love, lead us,  enlightened by Buddha and Eshu,  empowered by Thetan spirits
that we may govern    with the wisdom and the good    of ALL gods of our nation
PLEASE impart our humble congregation  
with prudence, prosperity and peace this day    
and so we pray,     RAMEN

** note, I made some slight changes since the deliver.  This is the updated version.  You are welcome to use it to deliver your own.

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