Posted on 11/28/2005 10:36:02 PM PST by garylmoore
Paul Harvey and Prayer
Paul Harvey says:
I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution.
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.
So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.
"But it's a Christian prayer," some will argue.
Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect-somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.
If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit. When in Rome .
"But what about the atheists?" is another argument.
What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!
Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating; to pray before we go to sleep.
Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well ... just sue me.
The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we let that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard .... that the vast majority don't care what they want. It is time the majority rules! It's time we tell them, you don't have to pray; you don't have to say the pledge of allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right. But by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back ...
and we WILL WIN!
God bless us one and all ... especially those who denounce Him. God bless America, despite all her faults. She is still the greatest nation of all.
God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God.
May 2005 be the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions.
Keep looking up.
Paul turned 87 last September. I hope he makes it to 100.
This doesn't sound like Paul Harvey AT ALL.
Ted Nugent?
BTTT
This commentary is not from Paul Harvey.
It's from the pen of Nick Gholson, a columnist for the Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, published in September of 1999.
Doesn't matter who said it, it's still good.
This commentary is not from Paul Harvey.
It's from the pen of Nick Gholson, a columnist for the Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, published in September of 1999.
It's still good. But thank you for making this clear to me.
Sorry, Mr. Harvey. China is officially an atheistic nation. The government has done its best to quash Buddhism (and all other religions) in that country. If you really wanted to hear a Buddhist prayer, you'd be better off attending a kickboxing match in Thailand.
As an atheist, I am disgusted with, angry with, and worried about the advances that the Leftists are making in the name of Political Correctness and atheists. They sure as hell don't speak for me. Indeed, they would undermine the fabric of socially recognized morality and individual responsibility that is the essential foundation of a free and prosperous society.
Political Correctness and its deadly accomplice "Separation of Church and State" are thinly veiled, far too rampant cancers on the fabric of this nation, striving to outlaw our essential freedoms and common morality. They would make it wrong to speak up for what's good and bad.
Their attacks on civilization have nothing to do with what sort of God, if any, one believes in, and everything to do with spreading the Grand Fallacy of the Ages, that man should invest ultimate authority in some human institution, because "we know better" (the heaven on earth crowd).
That way lies tyranny, and the greatest killer of man and beast in written history.
In the US, where we have freedom of religion (read not freedom from religion) and the right to free speech; even if Christians were not the majority, (in California for example it wont be long), there is should be no good reason why Christian words should be banned.
If people don’t like what a government official says, they have an equal opportunity to say smoothing back to criticize, and practice their own religion by the same freedom of religion and right to free speech, just as long as nobody is forcing it on anybody then this is not a problem, and wouldn’t be otherwise since true Christianity is always a choice and never happens by force anyhow.
We've about crossed the line into communism, when everything we do or say has a law to govern it!
You wrote; "everything we do or say has a law to govern it!"
Which law are you thinking of? The first law is "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
This is not in the US Constitution.
I don't know about it not being long in California. California is being overrun with Catholics from Mexico and Asia. Try to attend mass and show up late... you'll be standing. Then you have boatloads of Korean and Chinese immigrants who are Christians, as well.
When I was in Orange County, I was within 15 minutes of probably 10 churches that had 2,000 plus congregants per Sunday.
I think you'd be more likely to see it in the northeast before you'd see it in Cali.
Not sure just going to church qualifies for a person being a Christian, because in CA, when new arrival people are not in church one would never know, by seeing how the immigrants have defaced public property with graffiti, gangs and with crime rate up, the lack of respect for authority of the police and teachers by their kids in schools, would lead me to believe otherwise.
My reply to that is, there are those who want a law to forbid saying even the word "christmas",those who want God out of the pledge in the schools, those are the kinds of laws I'm talking about. If we sit back & allow this to continue, we will be just like Russia was, under communism!
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