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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (26526)12/6/1998 5:39:00 PM
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<< when there is a public function where a prayer is
said before the meal, I sit down during the prayer and begin
to eat. >>

You have courage. That sort of stand is hard to take.

But you know, there is something I like about the saying of grace. I mean the counting-your-blessings, consciously, aspect. I don't like addressing it to a purported God, though, because if S/He is responsible for one's own good fortune, (which if one thanks Him/Her one presumably believes,) as one sits down before a laden table, it follows that S/He is responsible to for ill fortune of those who will die of starvation in a gutter while one dines.

Bob, would you mind if that were pointed out during the morning period set aside for inculcating religious notions to the students in public schools? If you're okay with that, I'm okay with a twenty minute Open Religious Forum with Rotating Presider in the public schools, and I'll start preparing my sermons as soon as you give the word.
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