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I've never quite got the hang of the when's and where's of leading people in prayer. Church, ok. Congress Sessions, Football games, classrooms....? Weekly? Daily? 5 times a day?
While I suspect people are making up rules as we go along to fit whatever political agenda they want to push, I'd be happy to hear what someone else thinks.
"keeping faith on the field"? I'm don't know what that means and either does the person who wrote it. This is the problem with prayer warriors, they really don't know where or why the prayers should be said....
I for one, know exactly why prayers should be said. It reminds me there is a power greater than myself and keeps my life in perspective. I suspect other prayerful people have equally valid reasons. I also suspect there are very few who pray to anger others. In my own experience with the Christian community I find very, very few people wishing to be vengeful. I pray you too will find such peace.
Why don't those on Fox News publicly pray on their shows?
They support people HAVING THE RIGHT to pray before public meetings like our Forefather's did at EACH AND EVERY MEETING AND BEFORE OPENNING ALL SESSIONS OF CONGRESS, football games, in school, etc...
Why don't those on Fox News publicly pray on their shows?
A good exercise of tolerance.
What if everyday it was a different denomination of Christianity(Catholic, Baptist, Methodist...) and mixed in with totally different religions(Jewish, Hindu, Native Medicine Man, Islam....)
Because no matter how Christian Fox News want to appear, they still don't want to spend the money on air time dedicated to prayer.
Also, why is prayer such a big deal? I mean, from the perspective of those outside of your own personal religion, prayer is completely worthless. But honesty, does it actually bother anyone that much? I mean, by definition, freedom of religion means two things: 1) you can pray if you wish and 2) under no circumstance should prayer ever be required! That last one is important because for whatever reason, conservatives have invented a world where freedom of religions means they are free to force their religion on others which is enormously contradictory to anyone who has a brain. Liberals, to counter out the conservative stupidity, created a stupidity of their own with this idea that people who pray might offend others. As an agnostic humanist, prayer doesn't offend me and I see no reason why it should. It saddens me a bit that people pray to heal diseases that we can assume God created, but that's just me.
Prayer shouldn't be regulated. It's that simple. It should never be required ever and it need not be banned. The only reason I can think of prayer being inappropriate is if they prayer is clearly hostile to those of other religions or being far to obnoxious and flamboyant, i.e. speaking in tongues and crying about the non-believers. But if someone wants to have a polite prayer in public, the only person who would be offended is Jesus, who was against public prayer. Not that I've ever met a Christian who was aware of this...
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So no their heads are not exploding.
