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Fri Sep-16-05 12:53 PM
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Starting public meetings with the pledge... and invocation |
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I have never understood why public meetings, and, even, in some cases professional ones, "have" to start with a pledge.
Is this a form of some insecurity for those who run the meetings? How did this custom even start, anyone knows?
And invocation, there was a long thread here the other day about invocation that did not make any sense to me.
If people seek a spiritual guidance when they sit on a dais, they can do it in private. Why do they need an audience for this?
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Fri Sep-16-05 12:56 PM
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1. Demand to say a prayer to the Great Spaghetti Monster God |
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Or, recite this:
"Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him" - Matthew 6:6-8.
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:55 PM
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2. Yes, I am familiar with the "praying in the closet" |
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but am still curious about how the pledge of allegiance got to be a prominent fixture in government meetings.
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