Political prayer breakfasts are bad religion.

[Cooper]

www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/political_prayer_breakfasts_are_bad_religion/

"THERE ARE only three things wrong with the National Prayer Breakfast: the past, the present, and the future."


Agree? Disagree?

[Cooper]

I agree, however it is such a tradition that I can't imagine anyone putting an end to it.

My thoughts too.

[LisaM22]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/06/24/sanford-cites-secretive-christian-groups-role-in-helping-confront-affair.html

"The Fellowship is the group behind the National Prayer Breakfast, where President Obama rolled out his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships earlier this year."

[LisaM22]

www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/political_prayer_breakfasts_are_bad_religion/

"THERE ARE only three things wrong with the National Prayer Breakfast: the past, the present, and the future."


Agree? Disagree?

agree.....


www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/political_prayer_breakfasts_are_bad_religion/

It all began in 1953, when Dwight D. Eisenhower presided at the first “Presidential Prayer Breakfast,’’ as it was called then. That year Ike was baptized, and Jesus was openly conscripted into the fight against what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called “the godless atheism’’ of Communism. Billy Graham, with his “Crusades,’’ was installed as the American pope, and “under God’’ was added to the Pledge of Allegiance. The good-versus-evil bi-polarity of the Cold War was enshrined, with its high priest the other Dulles brother, Allen, at the CIA, where divine ends justified demonic means. America’s self-assurance as God’s ally underwrote the toppling of “atheistic’’ regimes in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954), with John Foster Dulles warning the world that neutrality was immoral. America had reinvented itself as a ******* nation, with apocalyptic fervor justifying a nuclear readiness to destroy civilization: Better dead than Red. Under Eisenhower, the US nuclear arsenal grew from a few hundred to nearly 19,000 nukes. Jesus, indeed.

[LisaM22]

the killer is Obama appeared to understand the importance of Separation of Church & State... what happened?


"Obama Breaks Down Why We Need Separation of Church & State"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB1_KFOhnU&NR=1

[Cooper]

the killer is Obama appeared to understand the importance of Separation of Church & State... what happened?


"Obama Breaks Down Why We Need Separation of Church & State"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB1_KFOhnU&NR=1

Politics, that's it.

[LisaM22]

Politics, that's it.

sadly yes, when politicians get in office they often use religion as a weapon