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  • Atheist To Give Invocation (Do What?)

    03/24/2003 8:26:30 AM PST · by SquirrelKing · 20 replies · 324+ views
    The State ^ | 03/22/03 | AP
    Posted on Sat, Mar. 22, 2003 Atheist to deliver council invocation Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Charleston City Council will open its meeting next week with an invocation by an atheist. Herb Silverman, president of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, asked Councilman Kwadjo Campbell for the opportunity to give the invocation so he could introduce diversity to council meetings. He will give the invocation Tuesday. "The definition of an invocation is 'to call for with fervent desire,' " he said. "What I expect to happen is giving advice to other human beings." Silverman, a mathematics instructor at the...