(the third member of the trio is probably "in costume")
-Eric
Posted on 07/12/2007 7:08:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
What's the point?
“You obviously aren’t familiar with the War on Christmas!”
Ooops! Forgot about that. I hear the war goes poorly and Christmas may have to redeploy to the 29th of December.
We have this thing called the "non-establishment" clause in the first amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
If you don't like it, you can try to amend the constitution.
We can look at this as a citizen representative of our country being allowed to express their freedom that is granted to them by the Constitution.
...and I don’t want to hear the argument, well why not wicca or other fringe religions. The fact is that the Hindu religion is a major religion and there are a sizable population of Hindi’s in the country and around the world.
So you’re saying the Christian thing to do is to disrupt the prayers of others?
And, you have an inside track on who God reveals Himself to ~ . Do you know about Shiva and Krishna? Betcha’ don’t.
No. Man and his perverted ideas are our biggest worries. We must look to the Lord for our guidance as man has gotten us into all the troubles we face. We sure don’t need to be praying to some dead god. The One True God is the only One who can be trusted to guide us.
Hinduism must be thought of more as a combination of free form do it yourself religiosity combined with an agreement to try to stay out of the other guy's theology ~ that way they can put up their family chapels in the same building where they can be safe from friend and foe.
It has been said that the number of religions in India is equal to the number of people.
Better said than I did but I meant the same thing. Thanks for a voice of sanity.
Your language is too diffuse to pin this one day.
(the third member of the trio is probably "in costume")
-Eric
Just like most FReepers would stand and defend the honor on their loved one who was unfairly treated, there are also those who will defend the honor of the one true God. To consistently turn one’s back on the fact that it is HE who holds the future on this country in His hands, and that it is HE that has given freely His grace and provision to American, He alone deserves the respect and dedication of our nation’s leaders. We are a melting pot, yes, but again, as a nation, we must stand as a Christian country or surely God will withdraw his grace. He is a jealous God as the Bible says, and He is a fearsome power.
Weren’t those Hindus who committed the first bioterror attack in US - Oregon in the 1980s? I know they were from India and over 600 people were stricken during the trial run, their main plan being to later poison the water supply.
No, I don’t know about them. Have you ever had Jesus reveal himself to you? We are all seekers of the truth, call upon the name of Jesus and see what happens.
Again, this isn’t about the Senate promoting or praying themselves to another God, this is about a citizen expressing their religious freedom in one place where they should be free to, to a body that represents the freedom of the people.
Just like most FReepers would stand and defend the honor on their loved one who was unfairly treated, there are also those who will defend the honor of the one true God. To consistently turn one’s back on the fact that it is HE who holds the future on this country in His hands, and that it is HE that has given freely His grace and provision to American, He alone deserves the respect and dedication of our nation’s leaders. We are a melting pot, yes, but again, as a nation, we must stand as a Christian country or surely God will withdraw his grace. He is a jealous God as the Bible says, and He is a fearsome power.When the Constitution was written, there was no mention of God, Jesus, the Bible or Christianity, save the ambigious matter of the date at the end. The idea of adding some such reference was considered, and was rejected rather resoundingly. We know this from the words of Luther Martin, a convention delegate who strongly advocated adding said reference.
Since then, America has become the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen, and every other government in existance at the time has changed rather dramatically.
I would say that the objective evidence suggests that if one assumes that some deity who we can call God is involved in the state of our world, said Deity had no objection to said ommission.
-Eric
Wow it’s really christian to call them (that). If these people were just praying (in the gallery) it’s one thing, if they were disruptive it’s another. I don’t agree with the Hindu praying in the Senate, but it isn’t unconstiutional (unless they forced Senators to be there), vice versa when Christians pray to the real God, they aren’t wrong morally, nor constitutionally unless they forced non-believers to be there!
That said these protesters aren’t(dip-sh*t); I thought that is language usually reserved for liberals..
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