Posted on 10/17/2014 8:11:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Pray to God to preserve the First Amendment. Hundreds of residents took to a high school football field Friday night to collectively bow down and pray — a massive response to atheist activists’ recent accusations that a local school district is guilty of at least two violations of the separation of church and state. But the prayer event wasn’t the only noteworthy response to secularists’ complaints, as local resident David Hoover placed three large Christian crosses on land he owns across the street from Licking Valley High School in Newark, Ohio — 10 to 13-foot symbols intended to send a message.
As TheBlaze previously reported, a free speech debate touched off in the city after the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a secular activist group, accused the Licking Valley High School District of violating the First Amendment by allowing high school marching band members to wear T-shirts with the word “salvation” on them during a recent performance.
And in a separate complaint just days later, the Freedom From Religion Foundation cited a 2013 Facebook photo showing a member of the school’s football team leading his fellow players in prayer as evidence of yet another purported violation.
While players are permitted to lead team prayer, it was the presence of three coaches participating in the invocation that drew atheist ire, according to the Columbus Dispatch. After Licking Valley Superintendent David Hile recently dismissed the band grievance, but said that the prayer concern was potentially legitimate, residents decided to take action.
So locals took to the field at Randy Baughman Stadium Friday night, where they kneeled down, recited the Lord’s Prayer and cheered — all acts taken in response to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s complaint letters, according to the Newark Advocate.
One resident apparently made shirts that read “Stand up, stand strong, Amen!” and passed them out during the mass invocation.
No matter what your personal belief may be, ALWAYS support freedom of speech because you never know when you’ll be on the other side fighting for your civil right to speak freely.
I'm a classical music fanatic, so despite my lack of religion, some of my favorite pieces are requiems (Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms) and masses (Schubert).
Thank you. I studied cogency as a youth and still try to practice it.
Someone who is an “a-theist” should be like someone who is “a-political”...that is, have no interest in it, and stand clear of it in others. Most atheists today seem to me to be “anti-theists”, ready to puff up their own point of view by dragging others down. In any other field of argument, this would be called “bullying”, which the Left assures us is present simply EVERYWHERE and is ALWAYS WRONG...except of course when the Left does it to silence those who disagree. (See Texas.) Again, in modern times and in my experience, the “atheists” we see are like the man who takes a moral stand against eating breakfast...and pisses in your oatmeal just to make a point.
What? No Bach?
>>The government has tightened the noose so much they’ve made it almost impossible not to be a criminal at some point.<<
I’m starting to think it may be time to talk about changing the government. This one doesn’t like the rules that the Founders set up for the nation.
Now that they’ve been shown up, it’s time to systematically vanish them from the planet, one by one, and be sure that the last thing they hear is, “all dressed up and no place to go.” Y’know, in a figurative sense. And the nicest possible way.
I always think of Doctor Johnson’s remark upon visiting Christopher Smart in gaol, where it was required by the inmate that all his visitors kneel with him in prayer: “I’d as lief pray with Kit Smart as any man.”
The Bach B Minor Mass is long and quite a listening challenge. But the sacred cantatas are wonderful. My favorite is Cantata #147.
My favorite Samuel Johnson quote is, “It concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully when he knows he’s to be hanged in a fortnight.”
They supposedly got it from letters that Jefferson wrote, but I don’t know why the letters would make that law....I’m pretty sure they twisted it as well.
The atheists that get upset about crosses and school prayers are not really atheists.
They believe in God with an evangelical fervor.... and they hate him with every fiber in their being.
I would advise the churches to RE-THINK their Amnesty position if they want to be able to even protest against these Atheist beasts. Enough Dem votes, and they will be facing an enemy no different than religious people had to deal with under Stalin, and that will include gunning down people like this group, to send a message.
They are not going to stop, they never do.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kinds of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Awesome! By standing up to this $#@& we can end this $#@&! It’s also time to to rein in and remove judges who want to create and impose their own law from the bench.
It's always nice to have a crowd worshiping the Lord - been to a few Promise Keepers conventions and when you get thousands of men together, all worshiping/singing for the Lord, it is a moving experience.
Most atheists today seem to me to be “anti-theists”, ready to puff up their own point of view by dragging others down.
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Good posting. Liked it all; not just the bit I copied.
Unless the school district is congress and has passed a law establishing a religion, then there is no possible violation.
I would have joined them even if I myself were an atheist.
We can no longer afford the luxury of apathy or civility when dealing with these anti-American, anti-Judeo-Christian radicals.
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