Ok, I came across Jason’s post here: Reality Television Hits New Low (If That’s Possible) and just about fell out of my chair giggling. I thought perhaps this was another “reality” joke… but no.

The Reverend George Hargreaves, whose idea it was for this show, seems to be of the opinion that people who are not Christian are at the cause of England’s moral decline. I find the reverend’s opinion humorous, only due to the fact that Christian’s out number those who chose not to be. If Christian’s are the majority and thereby hold more political office having more influence on how the country develops…then it would seem to me that the obvious cause for the moral decline would be…

Yep, not going to get into the rest of it. I do trust that you all understand what the point is.

However, if one should not understand what I am alluding to all you have to do is ask and I will explain it. Should you ask, be prepared for a historical lesson beyond the religious one.

Thank you and good evening.

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And now to provide the Ha-Ha for Monday, enjoy!

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The Southwestern Community College in Iowa fired an educator for not promoting Christianity.

Steve Bitterman, a now ex-professor at SCC, was teaching a Western Civilization class. Every other cultural religion that they had covered the students seemed to be fine with until they reached covering Christianity in the same way that all the other religions were looked at. When Bitterman stated that the Garden of Eden story is not historically true, one of his students argued with him and then walked out of the classroom.

“A few of the students thought I was knocking their religion by not promoting it,” he said. “They were upset that I didn’t say that the Bible was literally true.” Bitterman said that he treats the Bible as a historically significant, important work, but that he does not accord it status beyond that. “That really seemed to come as a shock to some of them,” he said. You can read the full story over at Inside Higher Ed.
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For years now the The Focus on the Family group has worked as hard as they could to over take what used to be something good for our country. The National Day of Prayer that was given to people of all faiths to take a day to pray in their own way no matter what religion they were has now been stolen by the group’s creation of The National Day of Prayer Task Force.

On the The National Day of Prayer Task Force website they state that they are the “National Day of Prayer official website” interesting that they don’t state on the front page that they are a privately funded task force and not what used to be the original government website for The National Day of Prayer. People do not learn that they are not the official group unless they first read through their mission statement on another page which states:

The National Day of Prayer Task Force’s mission is to communicate with every individual the need for personal repentance and prayer, mobilizing the Christian community to intercede for America and its leadership in the seven centers of power: Government, Military, Media, Business, Education, Church and Family.

This leaves me to wonder: Why is government placed first in their efforts and the family placed last?

On their What to pray for page, they list first our federal government leaders, then state leaders and then local officials. No where on their page does it ask you to join them in praying for your family or for your church.

While stating that this is a day for people of all faiths to celebrate if you want to help in any of the task forces events for that day you must sign an application that includes a statement of belief. You can read that form here. Oddly, enough the statement that you are required to sign is one of an evangelical view and excludes not only just the Pagans but the majority of the Christian and Jewish communities as well.

As to the theme of this years National Day of Prayer, what did our highest government official choose? Well, he didn’t. And did Congress come together to elect a theme that would welcome any citizen of any faith? No, they didn’t pick it either. The task force choose the “theme” for the national day of prayer taking a quote from the Bible and our president signed it into the governmental proclamation. What happened to our government not respecting an establishment of religion?

If you would like to take part in an open celebration for our National Day of Prayer you can ban together for your groups own prayer event or you could join in with the Inclusive Prayer Day and make a statement to the task force and our leadership that supports them by celebrating the diversity of religious freedom here in America.

www.InclusivePrayerDay.org

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