National Day of Prayer

Please join us between 11:15 am and 11:45 am between Bldg. 6 & Bldg. 7 near the back corner of Bldg. 7 at entrance No. 6. Come as your time permits and stay as long as you can, even if it's only for a few minutes, to be part of our circle of prayer to in observance of the National Day of Prayer for our great nation.

Also, the old Challgren conference room (next to the Ops conference room - bldg. 6A, 2nd floor) will be available from 11:00am till 1:00pm for those wishing to pray in private and silence."

I just got an e-mail announcement in my company mail that surprised me. In these days when it seems like religion is a taboo topic in so many places, I found this to be a breath of fresh air. While I don't want to mention my company, I applaud their openmindeness and absence of anti-religious political correctness. (This isn't some little "mom and pop shop" either, it's a major multinational.)

I'm sorry your posting got pulled, mmmkay, but I'd like to respond to part of it anyway.

You whined, "May 5th is also known as National Day of Reason. Do you think time should be set aside during the work day for atheists and non-believers to congregate?....my research on the NDP (National Day of Prayer) has told me that NDP was originally a day for all sects of religion who practice prayer: Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Wiccans, Zoroastrians, Jews, Sikhs. Would they be granted the same time of observance on this day?"

To which I reply (with all due respect) LOOK AT WHAT THE POSTING SAID, BONEHEAD! I quoted the memorandum exactly.

It was completely non-denominational, everybody was welcome to come and pray in their own way. Atheists and non-believers had the same opportunity to join with the others, at the time and place stated, if they chose. And not pray. Of course, if they tried to be disruptive and disrespectful to those who were praying, they'd get written up for their childish behavior, which would be against company policy, as would disrupting any other company-sponsored event.

Some day when you grow up and get a real job, it will be easier to understand things like this.

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