Why we need separation: exhibit A.Thank you for printing the "Viewpoint" by Gary Gary, city (1990 pop. 116,646), Lake co., NW Ind., a port of entry on Lake Michigan; inc. 1909. Gary was founded by the U.S. Steel Corporation, which purchased the land in 1905 and landscaped it for a city. B. Christenot, the evangelical Christian Christian flees the City of Destruction. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress] See : Escape Christian travels to Celestial City with cumbrous burden on back. [Br. Lit. whose experience at a high school football game invocation invocation, n a prayer requesting and inviting the presence of God. in Hawaii Hawaii, island, United States Hawaii, island (1990 pop. 120,217), 4,037 sq mi (10,456 sq km), largest and southernmost island of the state of Hawaii and coextensive with Hawaii co.; known as the Big Island. so clearly illustrates the need to keep church and state separate. ("Why I'm Against Pre-Game Prayers: An Evangelical Christian's Story," October Church & State.) Mr. Christenot's experience was a rather unusual one in that he and his family felt uncomfortable participating in a religious invocation because it was not a Christian prayer, but a Buddhist one. In an unusual twist, a Christian was in the minority. As a result, he felt very uncomfortable with the religious proceedings unfolding before him. Too often Christians feel that since they are overwhelmingly in the majority in many places, their views should be tolerated by the non-Christian. For evangelicals, nothing may illustrate the need for government's neutrality in religion better than Mr. Christenot's experience. Thank you for printing his article. John Soos Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. , Md. |
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