Non-Sectarian Prayer?
Well jus this week a U.S. District Court Justice Hamilton made a ruling that angered many Christians, holding that prayers said at the start of Indiana House sessions must not mention Jesus Christ or advance any religion. Hamilton says a nonsectarian prayer is necessary if the practice, a 188-year tradition in Indiana, is to continue. His injunction stems from a lawsuit filed by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union on behalf of four people, including a Quaker lobbyist, who said they found the tradition of offering the usually Christian prayers offensive.
After reading this decision my first thought was "is it even possible to have an nonsectarian prayer?" Prayer by its very nature is a conversation with a specific deity. Whether a person is Muslim, Buddhist or Christian there is a specific deity to whom they are addressing. So I ask the question "is there such a thing as a nonsectarian prayer? I don't believe so.
What we have here is another pitiful attempt to remove Jesus from the public arena. Not only is the PC Grinch trying to steal Christmas this year, but he is working overtime to remove Jesus from the public entirely.
Will
After reading this decision my first thought was "is it even possible to have an nonsectarian prayer?" Prayer by its very nature is a conversation with a specific deity. Whether a person is Muslim, Buddhist or Christian there is a specific deity to whom they are addressing. So I ask the question "is there such a thing as a nonsectarian prayer? I don't believe so.
What we have here is another pitiful attempt to remove Jesus from the public arena. Not only is the PC Grinch trying to steal Christmas this year, but he is working overtime to remove Jesus from the public entirely.
Will
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It is a shame that wherever you turn these days, somebody is using some ploy to get any mention of christianity removed from the public records. Things that this country, as the historical record shows, were founded on.
But as I see people fighting to keep a spoken mention of God in a song, or a chunk of granite with the ten commandments carved into it inside a public building, they tend to forget that those things don't bring us, or anyone else for that matter, into a close relationship with God or Jesus Christ. It's our own INTERNAL thoughts and beliefs that give us that.
So are we preserving the image of christianity, or just the historical record by arguing these points?
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