Posted by Zeebadaboodee at roc-66-67-162-21.rochester.rr.com on March 28, 2003 at 16:26:34:
In Reply to: I think.. posted by Gabe S. on March 28, 2003 at 16:12:46:
: that if you want to designate a day to prayer, to each their own. I realize that it's just Bush trying to do the 'right thing'.. But isn't that why they took prayer out of schools.. Because school was local government? What's next, chappel after lunch in highschools across the country? Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-christianity I just think that if church and state are supposed to be seperate, don't step over that to spread your beliefs.
They didn't specify that the God being prayed to was the Christian God. Why can't it simply represent any God from any religion that has a single God? Most of us automatically assume that it has to mean the Christian God whenever we discuss things like this, but that's a fallacy perpetuated by those who are so separationist in regadr to to church and state.
I work in a public school, I'm a die hard liberal who hates Bush's plan for re-introducing religion into schools, and I'm totally "un-religious". That being said, can't this day simply be about faith, rather than religion?
ksb