Posted on 07/15/2011 8:32:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Emily Miller
July 15,2011
Atheists don’t want Texas Gov. Rick Perry to have a prayer day this summer. On Wednesday, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) asked a federal judge to block “The Response,” an event where Christians would gather in Houston to turn to God for direction and unity for an aggrieved nation.
The anti-God brigade insists this is a First Amendment violation, and it will also seek a restraining order to bar Mr. Perry’s participation.
FFRF president Annie Laurie Gaylor says the suit is warranted because Mr. Perry does not see a distinction between his personal beliefs and his duty and obligations as the state’s chief executive. “He has taken an oath of office to uphold a completely secular and godless Constitution where there is no religion in it - much less Jesus, much less days of prayer and fasting,” she told The Washington Times in an interview. “It’s way over the top.”
Eric Bearse, a spokesman for organizers of “The Response,” explained that the event is not sponsored by the state. “Hundreds of years of legal precedent make clear Americans can assemble and pray without interference from the government,”...
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The Founding Fathers embraced their faith and would not be bothered by a day of prayer. So it’s good Mr. Perry is not backing down. “The pending litigation does not affect plans for the prayer event to move forward as planned,” his office said in a written statement. Considering where our country has been heading the past few years, we need all the prayer we can get...
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BTW, when are you going to pay reparations for the noted atheists Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, and their problems with people seeking blessings from God?
Cheers!
by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide,
and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with
much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
God Bless Texas!
You weanee Atheists can go straight to the border and leave the state. I would tell you where to go from there, but it would be sending you home.
The First Amendment protects the practice of religion. Atheism is not a religion, by definition. Therefore atheists have no First Amendment religious rights.
Atheists can’t stop people praying. They have their religion of ignoring God. Nobody forces them to pray or show up anywhere people are praying. They then cannot stop any other religion from practicing or saying a prayer.
They won’t even offer the same considerations to others they demand others have to give them.
Oh, no I’m not saying that. He might be, but that’s not what I’m saying.
Rove got Perry to switch from Democrat to Republican in 1989.
He ran Perry’s campaign for Agriculture.
So Rove could be up there, lining up enemies for Rick Perry to fight with. Next could be a big transsexual protest set up by Rove.
It’s not up to you.
BTW, when are you going to pay reparations for the noted atheists Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, and their problems with people seeking blessings from God?
The question isn’t addressed to me but my answer to you would be: When you pay reparations to the survivors of people murdered by people of the same faith as you.
I respect your thoughts on this.
Yeah, well, I’m mostly joking about that, but it might not be too far from the truth.
Walked right *into* it, you did.
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven; only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven".
Quote from the *founder* of Christianity, who presumably has the inner track on doctrine relating to Christianity.
So, are you now declaring that murder is God's will?
Whereas we know that Communists of all stripes heartily encouraged and practiced rapine, murder, and torture as an essential element of gaining power: as have their followers down to this day. Read up in The New York Times how the Chicoms would kill a family member, decapitate them, and force the survivors to sleep in their bed with the disembodied head.
All part of the "official" program.
Nice try, cretin.
Cheers!
I stand by what I said, FRiend.
And I won’t call you a cretin.
I've heard you say that many times truthfreedom and never questioned it until I read the article (on FR) a few days ago which credits ex-Democrat Phil Gramm with that role. Sorry I can't provide the link but I'm sure others remember it too. It was about Perry's voting record as a Democrat and the trouble it caused with other Democrats.
Are you able to site a source for your belief it was Karl Rove?
For people that don’t believe in a “Sky-Fairy”, they spend an awful lot of time obsessing about....WHAT, exactly?
Dear susie, thanx for the "rant warning" -- but I will say, you have good taste in rants.
This is a point not often enough made or comprehended, that all the Framers intended that the Constitution rest squarely upon the morals and sense of propriety and self-restraint of Christian (and Jewish) believers. John Adams warned us very clearly that this Constitution would not provide a proper government for people differently-minded.
Think for a second about the "value system" of Santeria and palo mayombe, candomble and voudoun, and right away one sees that the emphasis on personal power and compelling others is wildly at odds with the normative behavior of Western Christianity.
Which is why the Borgias and Sforzas and De Medicis were goggled at, with their phials of poison, their daggers and dirks, because they, too diverged into a cult of power, with results scandalous to hear about and politically disastrous for Italy.
yeah, odd how “non-gods” seem to rivet their attention so. what would you expect out of nihilists? even the weirdest religions virtually always preach something definite to believe in. (unitarianism an exception)
“It’s not up to you.
BTW, when are you going to pay reparations for the noted atheists Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, and their problems with people seeking blessings from God?
Cheers!”
Who died and made you God? Ha! I kill me...
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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