Atheists say prayer makes them physically sick

The Woodward Report ^ | Ocotber 7, 2009 | bob Unruh

[honestabe010]

Atheists recruited to be part of a lawsuit that is trying to rid government ceremonies such as the inauguration of a president of any invocation or other prayer have claimed they are made physically ill by prayer.

"As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country," wrote a 15-year-old in testimony being given to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

The lawsuit was filed before President Obama's inauguration and subsequently was dismissed at the district court level. Briefs now are being submitted to the appeals court in plaintiffs' hopes the case will be reopened.

"I felt a temporary state of disconnection when these religious statements and prayers were made during the inauguration," wrote another paintiff, according to an appendix of information submitted with the plaintiffs' recent arguments in the case.

"All the prayers made me feel excluded from the political process and a second-class citizen," wrote another. "But, when Chief Justice Roberts asked the president to say, 'So help me God,' I felt threatened and sick to my stomach."

[GeronL]

What a lie. Prayer is nothing but some words to them, right?

[notaliberal]

Then don’t watch it!

[twigs]

I have no difficulty believing this at all. It’s Satan’s reaction to being in the presence of God.

[Jeff Chandler]

Atheists make prayers sick.

[DallasGOPMan]

Good!

[Augustinian monk]

“As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country,” wrote a 15-year-old in testimony being given to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Praying to Obama is not a violation of church in state, sweetie. Obama is not a deity therefore serves a secular purpose.

[Rutles4Ever]

But how can an atheist become ill at the sound of prayer if there’s no such thing as incorporeal power?

[P8riot]

There’s no such thing as atheists. It’s just another group trying to get in on Obamacare.

[P.O.E.]

Like holy water to a vampire.

[dianed]

Related thread...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2357345/posts

[ElayneJ]

“As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country,”

Right. Many of us felt that way. :)

[dianed]

Related thread...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2357345/posts

[BenLurkin]

Yup!

[DustyMoment]

"As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country," wrote a 15-year-old in testimony being given to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Funny, I have the same feeling about atheists!!

Sarcasm aside, until/unless these folks EVER become the majority of the population in this country, they have voluntarily decided to exclude themselves from these public ceremonies. If they choose to have no voice because of their idiocy, THAT'S their choice. They DON'T have a right to cram their perversion down the majority of Americans' throats!!

[MrB]

The bible is true in all things that it addresses. Case in point:

2 Cor 2:14-16
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?

Yes, they probably DO get physically ill from the scent of their own death.

[Domandred]

"As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country," wrote a 15-year-old in testimony being given to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

First, a prayer at inauguration does not violate anything in the Constitution, but you're only 15 so probably haven't spent much time actually reading and understanding the Constitution and just listened to some liberal nut about a "separation of church and state clause" that doesn't actually exist in the Constitution.

Second the country is violating our Constitution a hell of a lot bigger than a prayer at inauguration and you're probably too young to realize it, care, or understand.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Atheists say mental health issues cause prayer to make them physically sick

[benjibrowder]

"As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country,"

As a Christian, I felt sick too. To watch a Commie who gives little respect to our constitution elected president of the United States made me ill as well.

[kingpins10]

No surprise. Prayer vexes their evil spirit, as much as it pleases the Holy Ghost.

[mlizzy]

I have no difficulty believing this at all. It’s Satan’s reaction to being in the presence of God. --I agree!



Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Power of God -
thrust into hell, satan and all the other evil spirits,
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

[MrB]

Funny, this kid must be especially precocious.
Usually you have to turn 16 before you know more than anyone else in the world.

[Freddd]

Yep, swine threw themselves over the cliffs at the sight of Jesus...

[reagan_fanatic]

I’m gonna pray for an athiest right now!

[a fool in paradise]

"As I watched the inauguration, my stomach did a somersault with disgust for how much our country was violating the constitution (sic), the most important document in our country," wrote a 15-year-old in testimony being given to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Same feeling about the inauguration, but it had nothing to do with the prayer aspect.

[A CA Guy]

A lack of prayers make other people sick and there are lots more of them.

[a fool in paradise]

The power of prayer.

[BykrBayb]

How sick? Pea soup sick?

[wolfcreek]

That’s just the Lord’s way of telling them they need to get it together.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Exactly. To an atheist, they are only silly words. But this isn’t an atheist, he is a Christian hater.

[MNDude]

I don’t believe in Athiests, but think they are all rather God-Haters. I guess that makes me an a-athiest.

I’m not sure if agnostics are real or not, so I’m somewhat of an a-agnostic as well

[Rookie Cookie]

Unless they are praying to Obama?

[Gay State Conservative]

Sick to their stomachs? My God...talk about heartbreak! I'm saddened by their distress.

(end contemptuous sarcasm)

[A message]

wrote a 15-year-old

It's a kid. And what a drama queen .

I imagine this child's parents have encouraged his melodramatic behavior.

At his age I was an atheist too and when I said something to my parents my dad gave me a lesson I remember to this day.

If this child is truly a seeker of truth his opinion will change.

[Rebelbase]

Listening to Zero speak makes me physically sick. What’s my recourse?

[SkyDancer]

I wonder if Hell’s climate will make them feel any better ...

[Gargantua]

That's Satan living in him, who actually does get physically ill in the presence of Prayer to our Lord. For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

:-/

[TexasRepublic]

Drama Queens can spew bloody chunks for all I care.

[tophat9000]

Atheists admits there power to prayer

[Antoninus]

That’s true. Ever see what happens when you throw holy water on some of these people?

[Doctor Don]

Atheism is an untenable position. To be an atheist, one would have to have the knowledge in the entire universe. No one has that! The better name is agnostic!

[50sDad]

Let me remember to my gaming days...holy water burns demons, right?

[50sDad]

Um, you mean where the President swears on a holy Bible, the way our laws have dictated for two hundred and thirty years, that kind of religious thing, eh kid?

[Cheetahcat]

Sick!!! Good then drop dead and do everyone a favor.

[RichInOC]

Then you’re not doing it right.

[jesseam]

Prayer makes an athiest sick?? Must be a GOD thing.

[50sDad]

"All the prayers made me feel excluded from the political process and a second-class citizen," wrote another.

When you are invited to a picnic and you choose to walk away cursing the ones who invited you, don't complain that you didn't get fed, kid.

[spodefly]

That is one seriously programmed, mind controlled 15 year old.

I would think “progressive” parents and educators would be aghast that as a result of their indoctrination, this 15 year old has become so closed minded that they exhibit physical symptoms of discomfort at any sign of “diversity” ...

[RonF]

Actually, "so help me God" is not part of the oath as mandated in the Constitution. Some Presidents have said it, others have not. Some of our Presidents have had the oath administered as a question: "Do you, swear ...", to which the incoming President has responded "I do", or "I do, so help me God." It's viewed as a personal prayer by the President whether or not the administrator of the oath supplies the wording or not.

[RonF]

"All the prayers made me feel excluded from the political process and a second-class citizen,"

There is no right to accomodation of your feelings in the Constitution. There IS a right to freely practice religion. The fact that the various prayers, etc. made you feel excluded is not something that anyone else is legally required to accomodate.