Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Here we pray with one voice, one heart, with united resolve. Never again," said Bernard Cardinal...
...lead us are talking about anything but. As the O.J. verdict exposes America's great racial divide, public figures capable of talking forever have become minimalists. Their comments are worse than unsatisfying. They insult our intelligence and fuel our disgust with the system. "Respect" the jury's decision and pray for the victims' families, says Clinton. Avoid "a huge national debate and move on," says Powell. "We need a healing period to find ways to understand each other and bring us together," says Dole...
...when it comes to the higher values and absolute truths that can only be found in religion. And so material possessions enter the picture as a kind of lowest common denominator in our political culture. We may disagree about the existence of God or about the proper way to pray. But all of us, regardless of our religious beliefs, require food, clothing and shelter...
Contrary to Mr. Gingrich's opinion, it is bad to have "pressure to pray." Violating the religious freedoms of even the tiny minority of atheist or agnostic students only shows all the children that freedom of religion is a relative thing. The students whose rights are being stepped on will learn that their rights are not as important as the rights of those who have mainstream beliefs, and will come to feel like second-class citizens. The students whose beliefs are mainstream will come to see that they need not respect different beliefs. These are not the lessons that...
...assert that Christianity needs to enter the classroom should follow their own religious book. "Beware of practicing your picty before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 6:1). After all, those who pray can use school time to pray. Under the present laws, everyone just doesn't have to watch them...