Gabriel Sechan wrote:
From: "Christian Seberino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
Nope, and you shouldn't be able to. Thats an official school
function. By asking for a "voluntary" prayer, you're forcing everyone
there, students and spectators alike, to stand by and wait while you
pray. Sorry, you don't have a right to shove your beliefs down my
throat. Actually, no, no I'm not sorry. You're perfectly welcome to
say a short prayer before getting up on stage, just don't say it so
loudly it interrupts procedings. That should be perfectly fine,
unless of course its your goal to shoveel your drivel at everyone else.
*Your* drivel should not be allowed to suppress their prayers. If I
choose to pray, you have the right to leave or to occupy yourself in
some civil manner.
Besides, someone praying where you can hear them is *not* them shoving
their beliefs down your throat. You forbidding them from doing so is
*YOU* shoving *your* beliefs down theirs.
>> 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".
Superstitious? You believe in a host of imaginary beings. Its by
definition.
Gabe
*You* imagine them to be imaginary. You think because science cannot
prove their existence that they must not exist. You therefore imagine
science (or yourself) to be omniscient. Your superstition far exceeds mine.
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