WHAT is UP with this "Freedom from Religion" group? The "religion" part is just a guise for "Freedom from Christianity". It is soooo bold-faced and blatant the minute you look at their stuff. What jerks. They would not dare insult Hindus, Muslims (definitely not Muslims. Remember Solomon Rushdi or the famous European cartoon making light of Mohammed. . . ? YEah.), Jews (because then they'd be anti-semetic, although, by ridiculing Christianity, they are ridiculing them also because we both worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob :) ), Buddhism or any other religion on the face of the planet, because that would be intolerant . . .
"Yeah, why not? Christians are easy targets and no one likes them. They can't do anything about it."
I put my name to the petition of protest against abolishing the National Day of Prayer. These "freedom from religion" people are sooo proud that they got a supreme court justice, Martinez, to agree with them about the "unconstitutionality" of the day. Is not the judge's leaning in favor of this group unconstitutional in and of itself? Judges aren't allowed to make decisions in favor for or against religious groups because of the separation of church and state. But, of course, nothing is sacred in the Obamanation. There are no rules because the rules (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution) are changeable, a "living document", as the administration so aptly put it. It's expected that one by one things will be and attempted to be, taken away from us. It's in Revelations, after all.
The National Day of prayer is not a mandatory thing. It's an acknowledgment that there is a Creator. George Washington put into affect many "national days of prayer."
The reason the United States of America has been, and hopefully will continue to be someday, such a hope and light to those around it, so wealthy in spirit and earthly ways, is because it began with leaders who knew God. They revered God and His Word, leading them to make wise and prudent decisions.
For Heaven's sake, President Obama's hero and idol, President Abraham Lincoln was the one who designated the National Day of Prayer in the first place. (Show's him how well he knows him. I only learned how devout he was recently. Of course you don't hear of it in public school).
"'Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficent to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness . . . . I therefore designate the 30th day of April 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer.'"
Sorry, Mr. Obama, but we are a Judeo-Christian Nation, whether you say so or not. Just because you declare something, does not make it true (a fact which has been proven more than once. Oh snap).
America is indeed arrogant, but not in the way you say it is. I pray not only for you and the First Lady's salvation, but also that your lovely daughters will also come to Christ, perhaps before you, and be shining examples to you. That would be a wonderful thing to see, for your sakes.
I close with another excerpt concerning Lincoln. It comes from the pen of Mary Lincoln's seamstress, Elizabeth Keckly, which she recorded in her memoirs Behind the Scenes:
". . . the Confederates were flushed with victory, and sometimes it looked as if the proud flag of the Union, the glorious old Stars and Stripes, must yield half its nationality to the tri-barred flag that floated grandly over long columns of gray.
. . . One day he came into the room where I was fitting a dress on Mrs. Lincoln. His step was slow and heavy, and his face sad. Like a tired child he threw himself upon a sofa, and shaded his eyes with his hands. He was a complete picture of dejection. Mrs. Lincoln, observing his troubled look, asked:
'Where have you been, father?'
'To the war Department,' was the brief, almost sullen answer.
'Any news?'
'Yes, plenty of news, but no good news. It is dark, dark everywhere.'
He reached forth one of his long arms, and took a small Bible from a stand near the head of the sofa, opened the pages of the holy book , and soon was absorbed in reading them. A quarter of an hour passed, and on glancing at the sofa the face of the President seemed more cheerful. The dejected look was gone, and the countenance was lighted up with new resolution and hope.
The change was so marked that I could not but wonder at it, and wonder led to the desire to know what book of the Bible afforded so much comfort to the reader. Making the search for a missing article an excuse, I walked gently around the sofa, and looking into the open book, I discovered that Mr. Lincoln was reading that divine comforter, Job. He read with Christian eagerness, and the courage and hope that he derived from the inspired pages made him a new man. I almost imagined that I could hear the Lord speaking to him from out of the whirlwind of battle:
'Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.'
What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for comfort and courage, and finding both in the darkest hours of a nation's calamity. Ponder it, O' ye scoffers at God's Holy Word, and then hang your heads for very shame!'"
Duuuude. You go girl.
