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oh yeah
don't you know you can lie in the service of Christ?
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 30, 2004 at 2:02 PM
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well I think we're improving
in small ways
you see, religionists either don't see (maybe it's not been that well publicized - liks more mass media) or don't want to see or don't want to tell -- that certain mores were violated way before prayer was taken out of public schools.
Let's take England under the Puritans, for instance. A few quotes, like "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" and such were taken from a poem of the time, written by a Puritan (supposed to religious tops, right) -- that poem was TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by Andrew Marvell. Read it. It doesn't at all look like our perception of Puritanism.
Looks like religion and morals are not necessarily consistently in tandem.
The days of the Revolution? What about Ben Franklin? Or Thomas Jefferson and his affairs with a slave?
The Roaring Twenties? Wasn't exactly the epitome of morality. All this when religion was supposed to be in prime position.
People sin. People have always sinned. People always will sin.
Prayer never had anything to do with it.
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 30, 2004 at 2:01 PM
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Yes, those religious small lies do creep into bigger issues... like killing 3,000 people on 9/11.
posted by
cmoe
on October 30, 2004 at 11:03 AM
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