Subject:       HYPOCRISY of Prayer in Public/Schools
Date:          Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:44:51 +0100
From:          Robert McElwaine (rem5@sawdust.cvfn.org)
Newsgroups:    alt.christnet.hypocrisy



                     HYPOCRISY of Prayer in Public/Schools

               Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Jerry 
          Fallwell, and 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 silently 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. 

               "Student-led" prayers should NOT be allowed where OTHER 
          possibly NON-Christian students are compelled to attend, such 
          as at graduation ceremonies.


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                                   Robert E. McElwaine
                                   2nd Initiate in Eckankar