Posted on 01/22/2023 10:54:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
A prominent atheist group has issued multiple complaints accusing an Indiana sheriff’s office of “[pushing] Christianity onto inmates” after hundreds of detainees have been baptized in recent years.
An attorney for the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has fired off multiple letters to former Decatur County Sheriff David Durant accusing the Decatur County Detention Center of “multiple constitutional violations” by “promoting Christianity and coercing detainees into participating in religious exercises.”
On Dec. 29, the sheriff’s office posted photos on its Facebook page of dozens of inmates being baptized. […]
Durant, who left office on Jan. 1 following a four-year term as sheriff, emphasized both faith-based and non-faith-based rehabilitation programs for inmates during his tenure, according to local Greensburg Daily News. …
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the sherrif should accuse the atheist group of pushing godless secularism on the inmates, denying them a right to experience Salvation or baptism if they so choose- -
If you think Baptism is nonsense why would you even care ?
Exactly.
Atheism is every bit a religion as Christianity is.
“Atheist group expresses regret the Christianity hadn’t been rejected by them while they were still alive.” — The Heaven Post
“Had been” ... darn typo
>>Durant, who left office on Jan. 1 following a four-year term as sheriff, emphasized both faith-based and non-faith-based rehabilitation programs for inmates during his tenure
The sheriff isn’t being preferential, thus there’s no legal issue here. These “atheists” are probably new converts trying to justify their own choice.
surprise! It’s not really about “tolerance”! It’s about destroying Western Civilization and Christendom.
Yet nary a word about islamic indoctrination in U.S. prisons.
Jesus came for the sinner
Not the good.
I was a county jail chaplain for 4 years. We only handed out religious materials and evangelized to those who wanted it. But the nature of jail life is such that many would come to Bible study just to get out of their jail cells for an hour, who knows how many were converted inadvertently by attending the class?
We never forced Christianity on anybody!
Tell them to shut up and embrace God.
"Atheism" is anti-theism, it is the rejection of God Almighty, these are marxists who have set themselves against Christians in a war for souls and salvation. marxists know they cannot control Christians.
By law enforcement?
What values do atheists have to impart?
What are these godless freaks going to do about it? I doubt any lawsuit would go anywhere.
Here, here! Or hear, hear if you know why and who. Always wondered why those who don’t want to be preached to have NO problem preaching to others.
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