LETTER: Prayer needs to be everywhere

Larry L. Stone, Henderson

As I read The Gleaner May 4, I read where an atheist didn’t want a prayer to be said at their graduation ceremony. Well, I am not a religious man myself, but I am not going to tell someone I don’t want to hear their prayer.

If I don’t want to hear someone pray, I can leave the room, and that goes for that atheist too, but someday he and all the others will wish they had listened and prayed too.

This is what is wrong with our country today. They want to cut that man upstairs out of everything. My way of seeing it is that some day sooner than you think, you will wish you had listened to the prayer.

And I think they should put prayer back in everything in the world, wherever it is. And that goes for our government too. They want to tell everybody what to do and what they can’t do, but cut the main one out of everything.

And that is like all the people losing their lives in the schools. That is all uncalled for. Let three or four teachers in each school have guns, and not let any one know who they are. Then when it is all said and done, you all can say ashes to ashes and dust to dust. If you had left us alone, you could have still been with us. Amen, let’s go home.

That bombing in Boston, they know who they are and what they did, so don’t waste money on a trial and then spend money on them for the next 25 years. Just pop a cap on them and say the thing for them that you just read for the schools.


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Comments » 3

jcnme59 writes:

Pathetic! Typical of most locals around here. No wonder our Ky politicians are so ignorant. They just represent their constituients perfectly.

jcnme59 writes:

So Mr Stone, if your school or your child's school was predominately Jewish, Muslim, Scientologist, Atheist, Mormon, Buddist, Hindu, etc. would it be OK for them to lead in prayer and you forced to listen? Don't be a hypocrite about it now. Your view is the exact reason the supreme court outlawed forced prayer in school long ago. I have noticed that most right-wing Christians only want school prayer if its a Christian prayer besides didn't Jesus say, "don't be like the hypocrites and pharasees who pray in public and just want to be seen by others, He said to go in your closet to pray where only God can hear you." Why do you not follow Jesus' teaching on this issue? What's the deal with right-wingers ignoring Jesus' teaching about this? Do you even have a slight understanding of why we have separation of Church and State in our Constitution? Try to get educated on it before you spout off on the topic please. It makes the public think all Christians are ill-informed bigots that want to force our religious views onto everyone else and we don't want that to be the impression for all the other Christians that understand the reason why we have "separation of church and state" Fortunately your view is in the minority for most educated Christians. I know Henderson Ky is not the most educated and intellectual place in America but please don't try to think you speak for all Christians because you certainly don't.

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