[Vision2020] Public Prayer

[keely emerinemix]

You're right, insofar as my preference for how people should pray counts for 
nothing in the law.  However, I think that prayers to a specific deity 
establish, if only for the duration of the prayer, a particular and specific 
religion.  Even "God" is not generic, and, if it is neutered to become 
generic and inoffensive, I can't see how it is even efficacious as prayer.  
Which, rather circuitously, argues my previous point:  prayer as a ritual to 
cross off the agenda, or prayer as meaningful supplication or entreatment of 
the Deity.

keely




From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Public Prayer
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:37:11 -0700

Keeky

If you want to pray is silence that is your right. It should also be the 
right of other to pray as they see fit. To prohibit them from doing so is a 
violation of their rights, not the other way around. The first Amendment 
says that the government should pass no laws prohibiting the free expression 
of religion. To prohibit people from saying a prayer in public is doing just 
that.
I see very little difference in atitutude between you and Falwell. You both 
ony want people to pray as you want them to. Why not let everyone pray as 
they see fit?

Nick
I have not read very many Supreme Court Decision's in detail. To research 
them looking for want you ask would be a horrendous task for which I do not 
have the time. I am currently reeding "The Faith, A History of Christianity" 
by  Brian Magnaham. I only have time to read a few pages a day. I would  
like to read some of your books on religion, including "The Origins of 
Religious Violence" when it is published.  I would also like to read the 
Quran and the Torah. At the rate I am reading this will take me three or 
four years.

Roger Falen

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