It is not a request, it is a statement often found in worship, often a friendly command like meaning showing a suggestion and resolution at the same time: "come, let us worship.together."
Yeah, the grammatical construction of this thing called first-person plural imperative is unfortunate. It's really just saying "Let's do this", but it sounds like begging the govt's permission, "Please, O sacred behemoth of totalitarian dictatorship, in thy grand mercy please allow us to exercise the first civil right listed in the first sentence of the first Amendment."
It is not a request, it is a statement often found in worship, often a friendly command like meaning showing a suggestion and resolution at the same time: "come, let us worship.together."
Yeah, the grammatical construction of this thing called first-person plural imperative is unfortunate. It's really just saying "Let's do this", but it sounds like begging the govt's permission, "Please, O sacred behemoth of totalitarian dictatorship, in thy grand mercy please allow us to exercise the first civil right listed in the first sentence of the first Amendment."