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To: wardaddy; sinkspur
You have a fair set of questions and observations, deserving of a fair answer. It would take an entire book to do it in, though.

In short, in this country at least, while the Orthodox have prayers for everything from waking up alive to blessing a tractor, those things tend to be done within the contest of family or the gathering together as a church. The notion of proselytization or proclamations of faith as public acts just don't resonate well, and most of us have heard enough less than scholarly criticisms or uninformed observations of our own practices from folks like Roy Moore to be very reluctant to encourage his version of aggressive Christianity.

Believe it or not, I really want people to go to their churches and support their churches; I loved what Dubya said about his faith last week, I adore the job Dave Ramsey does with what i've long figured really is a ministry, and am genuinely fond of military, fire and police chaplains, and I want Christians to gathter together and make good examples to the rest of the world - that would be very cool.

358 posted on 08/21/2003 11:22:56 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine ("what if the hokey pokey is really what its all about?" - Jean Paul Sartre)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine; wardaddy
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365 posted on 08/21/2003 11:24:12 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine ("what if the hokey pokey is really what its all about?" - Jean Paul Sartre)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Would you admit that you are somewhat "uneasy" with evangelical Christendom?

I don't think Moore is a Charasmatic.....I assume he is a Prod...everyone here says he is and it is Alabama.

This particular case is not my precise beef. I fear that there are forces at work that wish to eliminate God from the public arena entirely and I think the history of the past 40 years proves that.

Now, I am as you know not terribly pious and don't want to see strip clubs outlawed everywhere and all sorts of heavy handed morality imposed on everyone any more than you. I see this as an offensive to bring back the original interpretation of the "state religion" aspects rather than the "wall of separation" doctrine.

But that's just me. What are the polls in Alabama? I'm curious?
392 posted on 08/21/2003 11:34:32 AM PDT by wardaddy (lost in a knuckledragger wilderness of my own making)
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