<< Your right not to pray in school takes away my child's right to pray in school. So how can one be right and another not? >>
This is nothing more than the continuing misrepresentation, by some Christians, of the prayer issue. Your child's right to pray was never taken away. What was stopped was coerced prayer by the teachers and others in authority. You, or anyone else, can pray anytime that you want to, silently, as your Jesus instructed you to. This is nothing more than grandstanding to do it out loud, and wanting to force others to do so also.
"Thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men...
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret." - Matt. 6:5-6
You are not, and cannot be forced "not to pray", silently as your Jesus instructed. Don't you think that he is right?
Del |
