Stephan:   If you read me regularly you know I pay close attention to what is going on at the state level across the country because I see the states as laboratories for various social policies. When you think on the basis of facts, the social outcomes of these policies in the various states provides a measuring instrument. If you do this what happens? The data cuts through all the ideological and theological partisanship and gives the factual answer. Oklahoma is one of the states I follow particularly closely. It is a Theocratic Rightist Red value state with a governor, Mary Fallin, a Republican of course, who doesn't even seem to know the three branches of government. But she does know how to serve her corporate masters. As a result in Oklahoma the interests of the petroleum sector trumps social wellbeing. Proof?  As a result of  fracking waste water earthquakes Oklahoma is now the U.S. earthquake capital, and the damage and stress that has resulted from this increase in quakes has had a radical effect on the state's citizens wellbeing. Smart leadership would be positioning the state as a supplier of wind and solar power, and exploring organic mixed species organic agriculture. Not Oklahoma. The governor has declared an "Oilfield Prayer Day." Really. Here's the story. And let me be clear, collective intentioned focused awareness, of which prayer is one expression, is very powerful. It is the use to which it is being put that is the the dispositive datapoint