A member of the Church of Satan giving an invocation at the WCB convention?
Bite your tongue, Roger.
This is an organization whose leadership debated for weeks before
finally allowing a Rabbi to bless our opening session. But after the
Rabbi sat down, a Methodist pastor was called upon to double bless us.
Once we even had a Unitarian. But I don't recall ever seeing a
Catholic Priest.
My personal observations are that regardless of who blesses our
convention, they all run about the same.
I don't mean to sound negative, but it doesn't seem to make a bit of
difference to the workings of the organization as to who blesses us.
Maybe I'll suggest that we try an experiment. Each year for the next
ten years we will have a Priest from a different religion bless us.
We'll include religions that are always ignored, like Buddhists, and
then we'll see which blessing caused us to have a better year.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/22/19, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
What would be the reaction to a member of the Church of Satan giving an
invocation at the WCB convention?
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Carl Sagan
??? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ???
??? Carl Sagan
On 6/22/2019 11:30 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Sounds normal. Can anyone name one religion where they accept all
other religions as equal to their own? I try to explain to Mostafa
that he sounds like any good old White Southern Right Wing Christian
Church. But the fact is, all religions sound the same. After all,
when you have the Truth Everlasting straight from the lips of
God/Allah/Whom Ever, how in the world can you give equal status to
others?
In fact, I feel that my fingers are being inspired this very moment,
by the power of some Mighty Power. The only difference between my
fingers and those fingers that wrote down the "Word of God" is that I
have mine on the keyboard of my computer.
At our state WCB convention there are several times when some preacher
prays. Some folks get all worked up over this, but I feel that as
long as the majority of members approve, I can simply put my mind to
ther thoughts during the exercise.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/21/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I couldn't copy this article very well without including a lot of
extraneous material, so I will just provide a link. It appears that
Christians are very quick to demand that their religion be respected and
tolerated, but when it comes to another religion they don't think the
rule applies. Here is how they behaved when an invocation was delivered
by a member of the Church of Satan:
https://www.wacotrib.com/news/ap_nation/hail-satan-prayer-at-alaska-gov-t-meeting-sparks-protest/article_b260fe4f-695e-5b49-b4a5-18ddee8cf942.html?fbclid=IwAR0Ryc-zlJahYDhBL2CZtfI1r-I3Pv34jy2yI1eOEHOdtiILpUcvkPZb-wE
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Carl Sagan
??? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ???
??? Carl Sagan
