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- From: tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child)
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- Subject: Public praying - spiritually ostentatious (was: Re: The FUTURE...)
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:28:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.231238.26386@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.010423.29483@ncsu.edu> <72148536517577@c00508-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu> <72149420218033@c00508-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.212954.7881@ncsu.edu> <adams.721595322@spssig> <1992Nov18.220030.86964@watson.ibm.com> <19
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- In article <1992Nov19.174407.21580@ncsu.edu> jlharris@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHNATHAN LEWIS HARRIS) writes:
- >|> >Yes prayer is private thing most of the time, but sometimes
- >|> >public prayer is neccessary.
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- >Praying is something you have to do if you are in any religion, it is your
- >own decision to prove that prayer is necessary, I can't prove it to you unless
- >you are a christian trying to understand its importance.
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- For Christians, praying is a private and heartfelt communication with their
- personal Savior. To do this in public (which is refuted in the NT by Jesus
- as the actions of Pharisees and hypocrites) is akin to the obnoxious yuppie
- standing on a street corner yelling into his top-of-the-line cell phone,
- "HELLO? Why yes, MR. PRESIDENT OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. I just wanted to
- ask you a few things AS A PERSONAL FRIEND."
-
- So tell me why supposedly good Christians want to wantonly ignore the Bible?
- And be spiritually haughty in the process? Do they really think Jesus likes
- that sort of puffery?
-
- This reminds me of a "religious" person I saw outside of a clinic in San
- Diego. Mostly her protesting consisted of milling around, but when a camera
- was turned on her, all of a sudden she would fall to her knees, beat her
- breast, and proclaim loud epithets to heaven. Yeah, that was a sincere
- dialog with her God. Not.
-
- --Teddi
- -----------------Another Catholic School Survivor (12 years!)-----------------
- (Recovering Fundie, too)
-