Here is the link for the Hindu praying with/on Senate floor.....
Hindu prayer in Senate..
So I guess Muslim, Mormon, Witchcraft, voodoo, and any other crap we can fit in here....well, look at the bible, whenever the Israelites turned their backs on God, they went down hill!
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Here's the deal with the First Amendment: either (1) any religion can lead prayers, or (2) none can. Letting only Christians lead the prayer is an establishment of religion. Personally, I prefer Option 2.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, Steadman, old chap, but it's all crap, including your version. Perhaps especially yours.
"So I guess Muslim, Mormon, Witchcraft, voodoo, and any other crap we can fit in here."
Good grief! Calm down, Chicken Lickin, or you'll make your colon prolapse.
"whenever the Israelites turned their backs on God, they went down hill!"
And then Rome turned to Jesus, and look how well that worked for them...
The military is no more immune to having "self appointed religious assholes" than any other career.
I used to work with a fundie Air Force Officer. Nice guy, otherwise, but I didn't discuss religion with him.
Well, he did make some rather... interesting claims to a non-religious co-worker once. After he left, I gave what I called the "Democratic Response". ;-)
"So I guess Muslim, Mormon, Witchcraft, voodoo, and any other crap we can fit in here"
It belongs there as much as a Chrstian prayer, which is to say not at all. If you guys weren't spending all your time chipping away at the First Amendment you might just realize that it's not an antireligious doctrine, but is there for the equal protection of all faiths and all lack of faiths.
I bet this guy thinks the Bible is an accurate and inerrant account of history, too.
Sad that he's never heard of the First Amendment, or the Treaty of Tripoli, or pretty much anything Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
@Ex-Fundie
"And then Rome turned to Jesus, and look how well that worked for them..."
I like that argument, personally. There is one problem with it, though. The Romans were Catholics, not "True Christians(TM)". If they'd been good little fundies and used the King James Version, just like Jesus had written it, they'd still be the most powerful empire in the world.
"So I guess Muslim, Mormon, Witchcraft, voodoo, and any other crap we can fit in here....well, look at the bible, whenever the Israelites turned their backs on God, they went down hill!"
Hmm interestingly enough the Roman Empire didn't go "down hill" until they embraced Christianity. Admitadly it was some time after (I think) and was likely irrelevant, but still, that's the kind of tenuous "B came after A therefore A caused B" arguments you hear fundies using without looking deeper into the other possible causes of B.
Oddly enough, there are peaceful, prosperous periods in Israelite history in which the leader didn't attempt to force people to give up their pagan traditions. There were also times in which pagan traditions were outlawed and things went very badly for the people.
Sorry, you can't use the Bible as accurate history.
It's called freedom of religion, you twit. If a Christian is allowed to pray in the Senate, then a Hindu should, too. If a Hindu is not allowed to pray in the Senate, then neither should a Christian. You can't allow one and deny the other, it doesn't work like that.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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