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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: prayer in schools
Message-ID: <1577@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Apr-84 12:36:26 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1577
Posted: Sun Apr  8 12:36:26 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Apr-84 06:14:34 EST
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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<the words of the wombats are written on the first news lines>

According to President Reagan's press conference last Tuesday, it was
never his intention to force a morning prayer in schools, or do anything
like that.  What he was addressing is the right for those who wish to
pray in school to be able to (lawfully).  Some have said that their
schools did not permit them to hold organized Bible studies or prayer
meeting on school grounds.  Reagan's bill would allow religious events
to take place in public schools.

That was an interesting submission from the person who became Christian
when he was at a Christian high school and changed when he left.  It
could very well be peer pressure that changed him for that time being.
I know of some Christians who view Christianity as sort of a "club", and
if you're not "in", you're nothing (sort of like a school which revolves
about fraternities & sororities).  I fear that such behavior by
Christians does indeed drive many people away who might have converted
to Christianiy of their own free will but because they were free of the
pressure, they left.  I can only hope that in your case, God brought you
to that place so that you might learn something of Christianity so that
when you are able to make an independent decision, you will choose based
on what you have come to know of Christianity.
-- 
                               Be ye moby,
                               for I am moby.

Greg-bo, Prince of Eternia
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