On Sun, March 25, 2007 9:26 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: > Prayer is NOT illegal anywhere. FORCED prayer is in government funded > institutions. Can't you discern the difference?
If I'm not mistaken, you couldn't give a graduation commencement address and ask for a *voluntary* prayer before you started. >>>> Even your beloved Jefferson mentioned God in his Declaration Of >>>> Independence. >>> >>> Jefferson was a self-declared deist, >> >> So what? And deist != atheist. > > It's not as far away from it as you might think. deist ~= agnostic That's a stretch. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence says that the source of our inalienable rights is God. Now does the Declaration of Independence say that or not? >> They didn't want to *force* people to believe in Christianity but the >> vast >> majority would certainly be happy if more people followed the teachings >> of >> Christianity....be honest, help your neighbor, be faithful to your wife, >> etc. > > Why do you think that? Sexually repressed, superstitious, denying the > evidence of the senses and conclusions of reason? This is better for > everybody? You didn't answer the question..unless you think Christianity teaches one to be sexually repressed, superstitious and unreasonable? Can you show me where in the New Testament it says that? I'm not sure your own comments are, to use your words, "conclusions of reason". Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
