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Jewish lawmakers threaten walk-out over reference to Jesus
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| April 3, 2003
| Diana Lynne
Posted on 04/03/2003 6:25:58 PM PST by honway
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Sinky, you're as predictable as the tideThanks for helping us bring down Hussein, Byron.
I may be guilty of lots of things, but ingratitude is not one of them.
To: wcbtinman
He wasn't invited to give a "Christian prayer."
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:09:26 PM PST
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: SickOfItAll
And I am referring to who came first to the world, not who came first to found the US.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:09:38 PM PST
by
yonif
To: DoughtyOne
"Let them walk. I have a hunch they'll back."
This nation is founded on Judeo-Christian values and encourages freedom of all religions. The minister could have prayed to the God we share. I doubt you'd be so dismissive if a Muslim said the prayer and Christians and Jews walked out.
To: Illbay
How many knishes can dance on the head of a pin?
Most people settle for potato knishes.
Liver knishes are an acquired taste.
But kasha knishes are best.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:09:48 PM PST
by
ricpic
To: Hoppean
America was a Christian nation. I'm not sure what it is becoming.
We should force the 2 legislators to sit through a speech by Don Feder or Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:09:56 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
To: Illbay
Your stand is a principled one, and it is well argued --- which is what one should do rather than merely taking sides. Thanks for the well-thoughtout posts.
To: TopQuark
If you'd like you can argue that we should discard everything that was devised by a Judeo Christan standard. It would leave very little of what this nation is.
To: LaraCroft
This was more about Mike (Michael Steele is an uncle tom) Miller showing his a**.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:10:30 PM PST
by
sauropod
(If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...)
To: Servant of the Nine
The Lord's prayer is not prayed In Jesus' name. Yet, if I, as a Christian, were to deliberately pray a prayer so as to not offend a non-Christian, would I be praying, or reciting a feel-good speech for a room full of people. Perhaps the prayer should be private.
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
So when the chips are down, you'll stand with a couple of intolerant liberal Democrats, as long as they're Jewish? If you read my posts, you would see that the reason I say that is because I found it to be an inappropriate setting for references to Jesus to be made. Not all the people there were Christian, and this wasn't a Christian religious building. If Jews went to watch a Christian prayer in a Church, the leaders of the Church would have no problem mentioning Jesus.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:11:27 PM PST
by
yonif
To: LaraCroft
Isn't this another form of bigotry, to look down upon Jews because of their beliefs? No.
There is only one way to God. It is through Jesus Christ.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:11:30 PM PST
by
sauropod
(If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...)
To: DoughtyOne
yes, for a nominal flea :)
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:12:04 PM PST
by
ALS
To: yonif
This is a country founded on Judeo-Christain principles. This is a country founded out of the Enlightenment, by Frreemasons and Secular Humanists who used Christianity just as Carl Marx, who was never original, later realized as a means of keeping the common people in their place.
We did not have universal sufferage, and Christianity was never taken seriously by the upper class property owners that had the vote, except for a minority of New Englanders.
It didn't become fashionable for educated people to be religious until the Victorian era.
So9
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:12:35 PM PST
by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Sloth
Ask military chaplains who are expected to perform Sabbath services for many different religions: Catholic, Protestant and Jewish.
I have a friend who is an LDS Chaplain, and knows how to perform these services.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:12:44 PM PST
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Bella_Bru
Just a question, but why couldn't the prayer just have included G-d? Jews and Christians both worship the G-d of Abraham, why wasn't that enough?Without knowing what the quantities G and d stand for, it is impossible to know whether the quantity G-d is enough.
To: honway
Miller is and always has been a corrupt piece of DemocRAT $hit. Why would anyone expect anything better of him?
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:13:11 PM PST
by
jackbill
(i)
To: honway
Jesus was called "Rabbi" and venerated as a sage by (some) Jews of his time. As a Jew I have no problem with the benediction.
Heck, I view all Christians as schizmatic sects of Judiasm anyway!
Pre-Passover/Easter Shalom to all Freepers.
--Boris
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:13:13 PM PST
by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
To: ApesForEvolution
Spoken like the religious people of a false works faith I hear over and over again... I expected a nice, Christian response like that from you.
This thread is evidence of why the opening prayer at legislative sessions should be done away with, altogether.
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