From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: HYPOCRISY of Prayer in Public/Schools
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.164330.4926@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 93 16:43:30 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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                     HYPOCRISY of Prayer in Public/Schools

               A LOT of SELF-RIGHTEOUS fundamentalist "Christians" 
          want to RE-IMPOSE prayer into the public schools, as well as 
          in certain government ceremonies, etc.. 

               But what did Jesus Christ HIMSELF say about people who 
          pray in public?  In Matthew 6:5 he called them HYPOCRITES!  
          
               He said in the next verse that people should pray 
          SILENTLY IN THEIR CLOSETS, in other words, IN PRIVATE.  (Or 
          if in public, they should do it IN THEIR HEADS, withOUT the 
          SHOWY bowed head and folded hands.) 

               Parents who want their kids to openly and verbally pray 
          in school can send them to PAROCHIAL schools, as well as to 
          Sunday school, withOUT forcing it on others. 



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                                   Robert E. McElwaine