"Almighty God ..."

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At 02:35 PM 6/3/98 EST, Michael Koller wrote:

>     "Almighty God, dear heavenly Father. In Thy name let us now, in pious 

>     spirit, begin our instruction. Enlighten us, teach us all truth, 

>     strengthen us in all that is good, lead us not into temptation, 

>     deliver us from all evil in order that, as good human beings, we may 

>     faithfully perform our duties and thereby, in time and eternity, be 

>     made truly happy. Amen."

>     

>     Did the prayer help? Would a similar school prayer help in America?


No one but God knows what the prayer did. It is most
likely that such a prayer would greatly help in America.
We badly need a Constitutional Amendment to establish a
state religion designed by Congress. Dissenters should be
placed in work camps, perhaps in the same place America
had its concentration camps in World War II for Japanese
citizens who had lived here for generations.

>    

>     These were the words of divine supplication that secondary school 

>     students were required to recite in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

>     

>     Source: July, August 1995 issue of Liberty: A Magazine of Religious 

>     Freedom, published by the North American Division of the Seventh-day 

>     Adventist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland.


This source is mistaken, but since this Fool used the
FALLACY OF APPEAL TO AUTHORITY, the source cannot be
questioned. And this Fool has no idea what the situation
was in Nazi Germany where there were many Catholic and
Lutheran private schools as well as public schools. He
also fails to tell us what the state prayers were in
Arkansas in the 1940's were that I was required to recite.
As all can plainly see, it made me into a fundamentalist
Christian for all time.

Are there any reasonable people on this list?

Dick Jones

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