Posted on 09/27/2018 11:33:17 AM PDT by McQ444
Traditional Christian prayer before football games has been banned in 18 schools across the US following a complaint.
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A complaint? So what? Do it anyway.
How about a “complaint” for their FASCISM?!?!?
The Constitutions allows FREEDOM of religion. Somebody’s “complaint” does not over ride that.
Can we ban atheist prayer? Perhaps, anything they say, maybe their objections to Christian prayer? And why not?
I guess I’m just cynical but I believe these leftist administrators are just begging for these “complaints” so they can implement their desired action with sufficient political cover.
So now one can’t “take a knee”, unless it’s to support liberal causes.
“Begging” for the complaints to fit their own agenda and dislike of Christians is exactly correct. Saying that a complaint warrants removing prayer means that every complaint counts. We had a complaint about math, gym, science, the schools mascot, the paint color of the school...It would warrant making changes every time. Ludicrous and laughable.
A football game is, legally, a private event as they can also bar people -y’know - like Nazis - from attending.
The court has overstepped its bounds here or has to allow Nazis to appear and protest at the game.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Progressivism always produces the opposite of its proposed intent.
Given the profound impact of this dynamic, the ability to recognize, analyze and understand it should be somehow incorporated into IQ testing so that progressives will have an improved opportunity to become aware of their true intellectual capacity.
Progressives previously considered “smart” will then be more properly categorized into something closer to the average column.
Did they ban ISLAMIC prayers? Why NOT???
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
On the other hand, regardless what the post-FDR era Supreme Court wants everybody to think about separation of church and state versus 10th Amendment protected states powers, if there are no bona-fide 14th Amendment issues against doing so, schools can still allow prayer before football games imo.
Yes. The Constitution allows freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Others can practice their religion, and you have no right to stop them.
So a couple of thousand people who stand to do a “our father” at a football game are violating Christ’s admonition?....I think Christ was speaking of a different sort of praying, a type of praying that says “look at me a devout Pharisee making a holy public spectacle of my self”. That was the sort of praying he was negating! A group public prayer is not one where anyone really...”stands out” though some may undoubtedly be hypocrites. A deep reverent fervent personal prayer should be kept private as the verse states.
Exactly Do it anyway, let them toss someone in jail or kick their kid out of school because they prayed. Bring it, its time to fight back, right in their faces and drag them through the court of public opinion AND the courts of law as well.
OTOH, there is nothing in the world that can stop a person from praying the way Jesus instructed.
Christ publicly prayed in front of everybody before raising Lazarus from the dead. Elijah did before fire fell from heaven upon the altar.
I think Christ was speaking of a type of show offy shallow public display. One example would be that of the bragging Pharisee and the lowly sin guilty publican who beat his breast...”God be merciful to me a sinner”.
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