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- From: kene@acs.bu.edu (Ken Engel)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: School Prayer Poll
- Message-ID: <Jan.26.04.49.28.1993.15166@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:49:30 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
- Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Lines: 22
- Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- >Sure--under one of two conditions. Either
- > 1. *I* get to pick the prayer....
- > or
- > 2. Every day a prayer is offered to a *different* god. No
- > repeats are allowed until *all* known gods have been
- > covered.
-
- What if someone's god is Satan? Would this be acceptable? If not, then we are
- discriminating.
-
- > Since Christians of all varieties claim to
- > worship the same god, and that god is publically claimed
- > to be the same for jews and Moslems as well, when that
- > particular god comes up, a prayer will be randomly selected
- > from among the various sects that woship him.
-
- What if someone is Hindi or Buddhist?
- My point is that there are too many different religions and gods to try to
- cover them all. Well, I suppose you could given there would be oly 30-50 kids
- in a class, but if we try to make everyone pray to each god, there will surely
- be conflict and adversity.
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