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Originally Posted by raytri";p="
I hear what you're saying, and even some of our Founding Fathers agreed with your view, declining to recommend days of prayer to avoid even the appearance of government support for prayer.
But I don't go that far. Congress critters are as free as you or me to call for a day of prayer. I'm free to ignore them.
What they are NOT free to do, IMO, is pass a resolution declaring a national day of prayer.
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Why are you so willing to let the government assume recommendatory authority over religion, but not the authority to use coercion. What, in your view, is the fundamental principle of the right of conscience? What theory of religious liberty denies the civil magistrate authority to advise, but not to use the sword, in matters of religion. Why do you draw the line between the thing that are God's and those of Caesar, to give Caesar what is clearly one of the things that God has authority? Namely, prayer?