Religion
Related: About this forumDalai Lama Opens Senate Session With Prayer
AP | by DONNA CASSATA
WASHINGTON (AP) The Dalai Lama has opened the Senate with prayer.
With nearly a dozen senators listening raptly, the Dalai Lama said that if you speak or act with a pure mind, happiness will follow.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thanked the Dalai Lama for his prayers and words of encouragement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/dalai-lama-senate_n_4911531.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&ir=Religion
cbayer
(146,218 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)why the hell can't our duly elected slackers work a 40 hour week just like most of the rest of us?
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Madison might have had some things to say about that.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)If the pope was there he would have gotten a larger turnout.
Leontius
(2,270 posts)Cowards one and all if that was the reason.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)And the post I replied to complained that there weren't more people there for the prayer. If this were a speech by the same guy and had the same turnout, then it's a different argument.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I know you didn't say they should be forced but seems like the implicit concept given the reaction to them not being there. It was a prayer. Yeah, sure, is the Dalai Lama. But he's just saying the opening prayer. Big whoop.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)for peace in a very wounded world. I would expect the Senators to show support for peacemaking, regardless of whether or not they attended a prayer.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)So it's hard to say they shoulda/coulda for something else.
okasha
(11,573 posts)With or without which, it is their job to be there.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Where does it say they need to be there for the opening prayer?
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)The pope, an Ayatollah, or the top strainer head for the church of the flying spaghetti monster. There should be no organized prayer to open the senate.
If they want to prayer before each session they need to find a place beforehand and on their own time and do it. Not the peoples time.
And before anyone objects noting that it is a tradition going back to our founders, so was a lot of other dumb and hypocritical things. Doesn't make it right.