If a "prayer room" makes a building a "mosque"....

[scheming daemons]

...then having a chapel in it makes a hospital a "church".

[DFLforever]

1. Stop being logical.

It has only limited appeal.}(

[vixengrl]

2. So I got my degree from an accredited church because my

college had a chapel?

Yeah, I think a prayer room doesn't make the Cordoba building a masjid in the way a swallow doesn't make a summer. The anti "9/11 mosque" people are missing the larger point regarding what really does make this country great-- we do have religious freedom. Allowing an Islamic community center--or even a mosque, if it was one--isn't a zero-sum issue where its presence really is a "point" to some vague Islamic extremism. The United States also is a free-zone for Islam and its practitioners. We are about inclusion, not hate and exclusion. We are better than the haters and the bombers--

And "better" should be the point. Adopting an exclusion to religious freedom, as the ACLJ and the anti-Cordoba right want to do, is turning away from the First Amendment and the freedoms for which we're supposed to stand. Somewhere in the DNA of this nation is the idea of a "City on the Hill"--

And I'll let that Puritan statement funnel down through the ages to our present situation:

We can provide the secular/moderate example of that inclusiveness we uniquely possess that puts the haters of the world to shame, or we can serve up an example of bigotry that proves the haters right. I know which side I'd want to be on.

If there is anything in America that is particularly exceptional, let it be that we live up to our own standards, not down to others'.

[Hugabear]

3. I have a penis, guess that makes me a dick.

Oh wait...bad example. :evilgrin:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Is the chapel within a hospital a chapel?

Or is it a Secular Prayer Cubicle of Ambiguity for the Spiritually Attenuated?

[Brickbat]

8. I always figured it was the room for waiting for test results

[Qutzupalotl]

5. And don't even get me started on school prayer.

K&R

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Kick

because it's true and it went from 5 to 1 recs in a matter of seconds.

[Iggo]

7. You are exactly correct. (n/t)

[KamaAina]

9. That means most large airports are churches*, too

Makes sense, actually, as you're 30,000 feet closer to Heaven while flying...

[kctim]

10. Is a mosque

a building dedicated to prayer only? Or is it like our churches where they have a prayer room, a kids room, learning room, gathering room, even a gym?