(Queensland, Australia) — Around the world, public institutions seem to have a problem with prayer. Well, more specifically, they have a problem with Christian prayer because they hate anything that actively opposes their vision of a society where they get to write the rules. This is why, even though many Western governments have tolerated the model prayer of Matthew 6, they bitterly oppose the suggestion that God’s kingdom should come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
On 26 March 1897, Australian leaders were presented with a petition lobbying for the inclusion of prayer at the beginning of each sitting day of Parliament. In the following months, some opposed the idea, believing that members would eventually become indifferent to it as had happened in the United Kingdom.
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