Maybe we should stop offering prayers in these public forums since it is clear that very few people actually understand what the point of offering a prayer is ... to ask for God's guidance in the proceedings. If we actually did that, there'd be a whole lot of laws that wouldn't pass simply because we'd know they violated God's guidance.

And, ultimately, if I look at this from a Biblical point of view, having a Satanist open the meeting is being very honest about who really controls government ... and it is not God.

When Satan carried Jesus to the pinnacle of the Temple and offered Him all the kingdoms of the world, Jesus did not correct him and say "You don't own those, My Father does." Why not? Because other places in the Bible tells us that Satan is the "god" of this world. He owns the governments -- which might explain why so many are tyrannical and evil, even the ones where we're given the illusion of choice by periodic voting.