Posted on 10/17/2014 8:11:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Pray to God to preserve the First Amendment. Hundreds of residents took to a high school football field Friday night to collectively bow down and pray — a massive response to atheist activists’ recent accusations that a local school district is guilty of at least two violations of the separation of church and state. But the prayer event wasn’t the only noteworthy response to secularists’ complaints, as local resident David Hoover placed three large Christian crosses on land he owns across the street from Licking Valley High School in Newark, Ohio — 10 to 13-foot symbols intended to send a message.
As TheBlaze previously reported, a free speech debate touched off in the city after the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a secular activist group, accused the Licking Valley High School District of violating the First Amendment by allowing high school marching band members to wear T-shirts with the word “salvation” on them during a recent performance.
And in a separate complaint just days later, the Freedom From Religion Foundation cited a 2013 Facebook photo showing a member of the school’s football team leading his fellow players in prayer as evidence of yet another purported violation.
While players are permitted to lead team prayer, it was the presence of three coaches participating in the invocation that drew atheist ire, according to the Columbus Dispatch. After Licking Valley Superintendent David Hile recently dismissed the band grievance, but said that the prayer concern was potentially legitimate, residents decided to take action.
So locals took to the field at Randy Baughman Stadium Friday night, where they kneeled down, recited the Lord’s Prayer and cheered — all acts taken in response to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s complaint letters, according to the Newark Advocate.
One resident apparently made shirts that read “Stand up, stand strong, Amen!” and passed them out during the mass invocation.
No matter what your personal belief may be, ALWAYS support freedom of speech because you never know when you’ll be on the other side fighting for your civil right to speak freely.
That may sound strange but it is true.
I have never been able to believe in God or The Gods and I will never bow down to anything but removing Religion from humanity will destroy all that we've accomplished, all that we've become.
Lovely! If I had to choose only one composer to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be Bach.
What? No Bach?
Good question!
An aside: Would Alex have been a very different kind of droogie if he had been into J.S.Bach instead?
I don’t understand your reference. What is a droogie, and who is Alex?
The reference is to A Clockwork Orange. Alex is the leader of a small gang, and he loves Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. By bad luck, this is the music that is played in his aversion therapy, so he can’t bear to listen to it anymore.
As to the question, I don’t think Mozart would have worked for the story.
... or Bach!
Oh — I haven’t seen A Clockwork Orange since it first came out — that will tell you how old I am!
Mozart wouldn’t have worked in that film. But Mozart wrote a most magnificent requiem! And lots of other sublimely beautiful stuff.
Oh — I haven’t seen A Clockwork Orange since it first came out — that will tell you how old I am!
I read the book YEARS before the movie was made.
I’d suggest that instead of the movie if you’re a reader. It can be found online with a little diligence. ISTR finding it at gutenberg.org but I may be wrong.
“Liberals have decided that “separation of church and state” is in the constitution.
Along with rights to abortion and homosexual marriage, and other penumbras from which we can find a constitutional right to anything liberals desire.”
And....
It’s our own fault. Military personnel and others take an oath to prosecute against all enemy of the Constitution, foreign or domestic, equally. But, it is a basic duty of citizenship to do so as well.
We, all of us, refuse to stand up to that duty. The long and successful campaign of the destructionists in all their forms and formats is no ones’ fault but our own.
Atheist or agnostic? C’mon.
I’m atheist, but I’m not religious about it.
Though to you, who harbors this belief in atheism, none of this matters?
The let live part of “Live and let live” escapes militant left wing fascists of all stripes.
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