I could care less about Jesus' view on prayer. I'm just not bothered by a group of old people praying aloud for twenty seconds.
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You and all these "Christians" clamoring for public prayer by the looks of it.
BTW -- the correct term is COULDN'T care less. If you could care less, you quite obviously do care, and I don't think you intended that.
Are you so unaware of Jesus' actual teachings that you think a public spectacle is necessary in order to pray?
Matthew 18:20 said:For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The exhortation was against public prayer FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of looking pious when in fact you are not.
Silence, false Christian! Only my interpretation of the Bible is the correct one!
The exhortation was against public prayer FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of looking pious when in fact you are not.
“Senior Citizens, Inc. has always prided itself on the services it has been able to provide the seniors of the low country,” it said in a statement. “Part of that service is an adherence to Federal and State regulations that have made funding possible so more seniors can be served.
“Over our years of service, we have been instructed, as recently as two weeks ago, by the state regulatory agency that verbal prayer was not allowed at any senior center. We are so pleased to say that we have been contacted a few minutes ago by the new Director of Aging clarifying the regulation and reversing the position of new verbal prayer.
“As an organization, we feel that spirituality is an important and necessary part of a full life and we are thankful that this interpretation of the regulation makes prayer possible in all of its forms.”
Silence, false Christian! Only my interpretation of the Bible is the correct one!
Or maybe every interpretation is wrong because the Bible is simply a book some dude put together in the second century.
Like I said, it doesn't really matter to me which interpretation is the "correct" one. I'm an agnostic, but, unlike the unthinking leftist mob, I don't feel obligated to attack religiosity at every opportunity.
Separation of Church and State is as much about the 14th Amendment as the 1st.
Famously used in that way. However, the term and the concept are older.
“Over our years of service, we have been instructed, as recently as two weeks ago, by the state regulatory agency that verbal prayer was not allowed at any senior center. We are so pleased to say that we have been contacted a few minutes ago by the new Director of Aging clarifying the regulation and reversing the position of new verbal prayer..."
Again, your wrong.
As the old people's home and the correct reading of the law has won the day:
Hot Air Georgia retirement home: Okay, on second thought, go ahead and pray before meals
So you see, the government does not have to be seperate from religion. It cannot stop the free exercise thereof.
So you see, the government does not have to be seperate from religion. It cannot stop the free exercise thereof.
Isn't this going just a bit too far?
j-mac
Interesting. So no one was stopping them from praying before, and no one is stopping them from praying now. The only difference is that now, everyone else is forced to sit there and listen to their babbling.
I do have to wonder if they'd be so willing to fight for my "right to group prayer" if I wanted to have a group satanic prayer and made everyone else sit there and listen to it.
It's going too far for federal dollars to be giving them food.
Who was being "forced"? I didn't read anywhere in that story where residents complained, did you?
So then you are basing your argument for, or against on something you can't discern happened. I believe that is called a strawman.
Interesting. So no one was stopping them from praying before, and no one is stopping them from praying now. The only difference is that now, everyone else is forced to sit there and listen to their babbling.
“Over our years of service, we have been instructed, as recently as two weeks ago, by the state regulatory agency that verbal prayer was not allowed at any senior center. We are so pleased to say that we have been contacted a few minutes ago by the new Director of Aging clarifying the regulation and reversing the position of new verbal prayer..."
I do have to wonder if they'd be so willing to fight for my "right to group prayer" if I wanted to have a group satanic prayer and made everyone else sit there and listen to it.
I do have to wonder if they'd be so willing to fight for my "right to group prayer" if I wanted to have a group satanic prayer and made everyone else sit there and listen to it.
Interesting. So no one was stopping them from praying before, and no one is stopping them from praying now. The only difference is that now, everyone else is forced to sit there and listen to their babbling.
I do have to wonder if they'd be so willing to fight for my "right to group prayer" if I wanted to have a group satanic prayer and made everyone else sit there and listen to it.
Just wait until the Messiah Care really kicks in and the realization that those people are worth more to the government dead than alive.
They'll be praying for the meals, not over them.
No, they did NOT tell them they couldn't pray.Um, did you even bother to read the last link I put up?
Sounds like the state had told them they couldn't do it. Now that has been reversed.
So do you think they'd fight for my "right for group prayer" if I demanded group satanic prayer, or not? Wiccan? Muslim?Look, I understand your butt hurt over the correct reading of the law, but that is no cause to sell your soul to the devil.
No, they did NOT tell them they couldn't pray.
So do you think they'd fight for my "right for group prayer" if I demanded group satanic prayer, or not? Wiccan? Muslim?
Uhh... no, that's not what I said at all. I said people are forced to sit there and listen to their nonsense. No one can force anyone to pray, just like no one can STOP anyone from praying.Wow! what do you envision? Some authoritarian type in a white coat standing over every table with a riding crop in hand yelling, "I said pray dammit!!!!"
LMFAO You really think no one would stop me? You're ****ing insane if you do. You're also ****ing insane if you think they'd taken it to the Mayor if I had been told to stop my pre-dinner summon Lucifer rituals as a group.As for your right to chant from the book of Satan before eating your meal, it is clear that the only reason you would wish to do that is to cause disruption because you loath those that don't think like you do. My guess though is that no one would stop you.
Did you fight for their right for group prayer ??
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