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    "Moderate" christians protest Hindu prayer in Senate

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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterKiller View Post
    Wow... that's depressing.
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    why are prayers being said in a government context anyway?
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    At least Christians aren't threatening to kill two guys who make funny cartoons.
    When given the choice between big business and big government, choose big business. Big business never threw millions of people into gas chambers, but big government did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bad65 View Post
    At least Christians aren't threatening to kill two guys who make funny cartoons.
    Makes it no less depressing or ignorant. Sick that you'd back this kind of behavior
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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterKiller View Post
    Boy, do I hate people who try to force their ideology on others!
    There should be no such thing as a 'moderate' Christian! It should be by one's actions or lack thereof that determines and distinguishes good from evil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bad65 View Post
    At least Christians aren't threatening to kill two guys who make funny cartoons.
    LOL! The group that made the threats was apparently founded and run by Joseph Cohen, a former Israeli Radical who use to live in a settlement in the West Bank. Joseph Cohen (aka Yousef al-Khattab).

    Grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in New York and attending a orthodox rabbinical school in Israel, Joseph Cohen went to live in a settlement in the West Bank to help steal Palestinian land from Palestinians. His story is that he “converted” to Islam after meeting someone in a chat room.
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    That was a state senate meeting, yah?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mawali View Post
    Boy, do I hate people who try to force their ideology on others!
    There should be no such thing as a 'moderate' Christian! It should be by one's actions or lack thereof that determines and distinguishes good from evil.
    dude, the only forcing i saw was a hindu trying to say a prayer in a state legislature.

    church (any church) and state do not mix.
    I don't blame those people for not accepting that at all.

    Do they have christian prayers in the senate?
    If so, that should stop too.

    No praying to sky beings while making rule of law.
    Pretty simple rule.
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    It's an invocation, and they are nondenominational. Military does it too. I don't agree with it, but trying to change it is a pretty futile battle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    It's an invocation, and they are nondenominational. Military does it too. I don't agree with it, but trying to change it is a pretty futile battle.
    futile or not, I"m not down with any praying in government halls outside of perhaps individuals praying in their offices by themselves.

    Otherwise ALL religious rituals and ceremonials should be outright banned completely from government.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    futile or not, I"m not down with any praying in government halls outside of perhaps individuals praying in their offices by themselves.

    Otherwise ALL religious rituals and ceremonials should be outright banned completely from government.
    In other words, I fought the good fight and lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    Makes it no less depressing or ignorant. Sick that you'd back this kind of behavior
    Where did I back this kind of behavior?
    When given the choice between big business and big government, choose big business. Big business never threw millions of people into gas chambers, but big government did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bad65 View Post
    Where did I back this kind of behavior?
    By dismissing it as being "not as bad" as more extreme behavior. Do you condemn and disapprove of what happened there or not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    By dismissing it as being "not as bad" as more extreme behavior. Do you condemn and disapprove of what happened there or not?
    "Not as bad" means one is worse than the other. It doesn't mean one is ok.

    I need to watch the video. But I'm sure they haven't beheaded anyone, or called for a country's destruction, or worn a sidearm to a UN meeting, or called for the killing of an author, or offered to pay money to suicide bombers, or flown planes into buildings, or gassed their own people. You know, things the 'peaceful' Muslims do.
    Last edited by 1bad65; 05-03-2010 at 11:26 AM.
    When given the choice between big business and big government, choose big business. Big business never threw millions of people into gas chambers, but big government did.

    "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men" -Samuel Adams

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