Well if we're splitting hairs, here, I think: 1. There's Christian cultural context regarding the phrase "God grant..." that is necessary to understand the pra

Well if we're splitting hairs, here, I think: 1. There's Christian cultural context regarding the phrase "God grant..." that is necessary to understand the prayer 2. To wit, when Christians use this phrase, it is both an exhortation to self-reliance and an honest admission of personal flaws that may sabotage the pursuit of self-reliance. 3. There is of course also the implication that the Christian theological tradition is the best way to achieve self-reliance in spite of character flaws. My glib aside was meant to assert that 2. is in fact mostly orthogonal to 3.