Jewish lawmakers threaten walk-out over reference to Jesus

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 3, 2003 | Diana Lynne

[k2blader]

He wasn't invited to prosletyze.

So to say "In Jesus' name, Amen." is "proselytizing"?

If your answer is "yes," there's no need for further argument as yours would be ludicrous.

[tracer]

The solution is quite simple. Simply invoke the name of Gumby and everyone nobody will be offended.........

[tracer]

Correction: "Nobody will be offended."

[Hacksaw]

I have often suspected that you people consider "Southern Heritage" to be a cult, a religion.

Your comment reinforces my suspicion.

I was hoping for a more tolerant response from you, considering the fact that slandering Southern Heritage supporters would seem to go against your values.

[dennisw]

Newdow......Born Jewish

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

"Nothing chaps my hide more than someone trying to PUSH their beliefs on someone else when it isn't invited or appropriate"

Hmmm... the Maryland Senate asked an evangelical minister to participate in the opening of the senate with prayer, as part of an ecumunical service. I guess they should have told the minister that he had to pray by "politically correct" standards, so as not to offend. More than likely, the minister would have said no thanks... that's not a real prayer. Don't ask for a prayer when you're really wanting a religious sounding, pious speech reflecting a meaningless, homongenous beliefs.

[Beacon Falls]

G-d? Which God? The God of the bible? The god that Satan worshipers use? The God of Sunshine? Maybe Thor, he was a Greek God right? God is a descriptive term and not a name. I know that the Jesus said that his fathers name should be halowed or made important, it's too bad that it has rather been ommited.

[aruanan]

Jewish lawmakers threaten walk-out over reference to Jesus

Pretty funny considering that because of its opposition to believers in Jesus as the Messiah, Judaism since the first century has not been the same Judaism as that up until the first century. It has almost become an article of faith that to be a "real" Jew one must disbelieve that Jesus was the Messiah. Judaism since the first century has been profoundly shaped by its reaction to Christian theology. It would be interesting to contrast pre-Christian Jewish references to prophecies about the Messiah with post-Christian references to see which were no longer cited because to do so would be to support the Christian claim that Jesus was the Messiah.

[RobbyS]

What I would like to know is whether the Jews are religious or not, or whether they are stalking horses for the ACLU.

[carton253]

He was a Christian Pastor who was invited to pray... And as a Christian Pastor, invited to pray, he was going to pray in the name of Jesus.

It is appropriate...

What is inappropriate is the fact that 2 politicians are so thin-skinned that they had to protest...

What is this country reducing itself too.

[sauropod]

Unfortunately, my hunch was correct.

[sauropod]

Yep. But the Jews are still the historical "Chosen People." As Christians we can never forget that. We should support a truly religious Israel. The secular Israel that exists today we must support while holding our nose.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Ecumenical is too much like political correctness and multiculturalism. Everything ends up being a bland mush and everyone is way too oversensitive.

BUMP.

[Marysecretary]

Christians pray IN THE NAME OF JESUS, not a far-flung nebulous God. We are told to pray IN HIS NAME. We don't fuss if the Jews want to pray to their G-d (who is our God, too). There's such a spiritual warfare going on. This is sad. Christians are the Jews' best friends. We don't need this kind of quibbling. It's infantile.

[Marysecretary]

The Muslim god doesn't exist! They pray to the empty spaces around them when they call down the name of Allah. He just isn't there. He was fashioned from some moon god that Muhammed made up.

[dennisw]

Hehe ... It (Michael Newdow) bothers me more than it bothers you.

[sauropod]

"We don't need this kind of quibbling. It's infantile."

Yes, it is.

[sauropod]

I suspected he would ;-).

[Marysecretary]

Not necessarily, spark. The muslims believe in Allah who doesn't even exist. Many others worship the god of money, fame, greed, lust, power...they knoweth NOT God.