Comments on: In Greece v Galloway, Even Kagan Just Doesn’t Get It

By: Don't be terrified

Don't be terrified — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:19:00 +0000

Wow, that’s a serious dose of revisionist history. The “religious oppression” that people were escaping was someone telling them how to worship and believe. By today’s standards, both the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” would make so-called conservative Christians look like new-age hippies. The pilgrims were far more conservative than any modern-day denomination.

By: Robert Lame

Robert Lame — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:15:00 +0000

In reply to Robert Ray. Yes, it's insulting for someone to not agree with you .. how dare they!

By: “Greece v. Galloway”, Linda Stephens on Atheists Talk » Almost Diamonds

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:57:45 +0000

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By: Gerald Brienza

Gerald Brienza — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:56:00 +0000

We have the first black POTUS and soon will have the first woman POTUS. However, the real progress will be when we have the first Atheist POTUS!

By: Rolo1124

Rolo1124 — Thu, 29 May 2014 21:13:00 +0000

Should get a member from as many religions as possible to attend every meeting so they can say a prayer. When it takes 2 hours of prayer before they can get down to business they might rethink thier decision.

By: Anjin-San

Anjin-San — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:48:00 +0000

In reply to Dan.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/florida-man-wants-hold-prayer-satan-government-meeting

By: The Reading List, 5/14/2014 » Almost Diamonds

The Reading List, 5/14/2014 » Almost Diamonds — Wed, 14 May 2014 13:12:10 +0000

[…] In Greece v Galloway, Even Kagan Just Doesn’t Get It–”How does a round robin of various religious prayers and secular invocations at city council meetings fix the problem of making a single meeting welcoming to all citizens?” […]

By: razajac

razajac — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:42:00 +0000

I think the effect of public prayer before government meetings has the effect of dampening open communication. A person’s spiritual story is a deeply personal story. The general purpose of public prayer flies in the face of this reality, and only serves the purpose of foisting upon religion a bogus role of “uniting” people via religious affiliation. The simple fact is that, when they actually overcome their religiously inculcated reluctance to engage in open and honest communication about their true feelings, people find that no two people are as united as the “prayers” of these pre-governance pastoral bleaters would have us think.

In other words, these kinds of prayers only serve to make people think they’re united, before the hard realities of governance/resource-allocation reveal that reverent head-bowing comes nowhere close to uniting us. Prayer before governance is a prayer that no one needs anything, that there is no real need for governance, that perhaps we should just rejoice in our “united” status quo and home and forget all this “getting-together-to-discuss-‘urgent’-business” tomfoolery.

Decent governance rejects this obfuscation and gets on with it.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:27:00 +0000

Everyone should go to the town meeting and when everyone else says amen, instead declare Hail Satan! Then we’ll see if it a free speech issue or not.

By: Susan Bovee

Susan Bovee — Sun, 11 May 2014 02:30:00 +0000

The Supreme Court has said in no fewer than twenty decisions that “tradition” is not a reason to continue supporting an unconstitutional practice. Oh, except, apparently, when it is … .