FredVonFlash
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Jimmyeatworld said:Is it really that difficult to understand? Ok, don't read more into this than what it is. I'm just using an example. I can encourage you to go to another board, saying that I don't think you are bringing anything of worth to this one. Does that mean you have to do it? Am I infringing on your right to come here and post what ever you want?
God has not imposed the duty for me to come here and post what ever I want. However, he has imposed a duty that I pray according to the dictates of my conscience and convictions. For any man to advise me regarding matters where I am forbidden to follow or even to consider his advice is a sin against God; and it is disrespectful of my duty to God; and it is an infringment upon my right to follow only the dictates of my conscience.
Jimmyeatworld said:If something happens, like 9/11 or Katrina, and President Bush speaks to the public and encourages people to pray for the victims, he is not infringing on their religious beliefs, he is not demanding people to do anything, and he is not making an official statement that everyone must drop to their knees and pray to the Christian God. He's just asking people to pray. Those people can then pray or not.
If you prayed for the victims of 9/11 or Katrina because the government advised you to so, your prayers went to the Devil, not to God. Asking someone to pray implies a duty to do so.
The President should ask us to pray only if he believes God directs him to do so and he makes that very clear when he makes the request. He should say something like this: "I speak to you now - not as your President - but as a civilian with no civil authority or power whatsover. God has told me to ask you to pray and I now ask you to pray for ...." (that I be impeached, convicted and removed from office for being a liar and sorry pathetic excuse for a human being
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