In Georgia the Governor asked for like minded people to pray, not everyone only like minded. An atheist in suing him because she was offend but he did not ask her to pray. Please enlighten me.
2007-11-13 13:04:55 · 18 answers · asked by Coop 366 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because he is a Governor he has no right to personal belief?
2007-11-13 13:38:16 · update #1
Certainly he has a right to his personal beliefs and no matter how he worded it, the female atheist should have just shut up and sat down! Once again, I can only hope that the court system throws this suit out where it belongs...in her daily diary entitled "Things That Bother Me subtitled Who I Sued Today!" Who can explain the inexplicable?
Everyone sues for everything today and it's been going on for years. The lawmakers create the laws that allow people to sue for the dumbest things I've ever heard of and then wonders why no one believes in the "system" anymore! The attorneys happily take these cases on because they know they can win if they make enough noise about the subject matter, the insurance company pays these cretins just to be done with it and who foots the bill every time some IQ challenged nitwit comes up with yet another ridiculous law suit? We do and we pay for it in many ways!
2007-11-13 16:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by Chris B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forgiveness and understanding and respect are Divine, offense taken and a law suit with probable pay out is human, easy and has dollar signs attached, that lady was not offended, she is simply taking advantage of the system, she is just another reason why attorneys and insurance sales men keep making so much money. I am an atheist, I wasn't offended, but then I respect the rights and differences of others and am not prone to greed
2007-11-13 13:13:05 · answer #2 · answered by inkgddss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is love.
You took the words out of my mouth very, well stated, I could not have stated it any better. You got my vote.
I guess as they say each to there own of what they want to believe and freedom of speech to say what they truly believe, we do not force this down there throats to act on it, they have a choice to do what they feel and believe what they want.
Personally I am not ashamed to say I do believe there is a God some one of greater power, that is my feelings and I do not try to force you to believe it.
We each make our own choices in life. We each have the right to share what we feel and believe.
In this case the Governor of Georgia believes that prayer will help, so why should he not be able to ask this of others, he is not forcing you to do it , he is just asking, to the ones that want to do it do it and to the others that do not then you have that choice do not do it. Why make a big issue of nothing.
Bottom line we all have the right of freedom of speech and belief es.
To everyone have a good day.
2007-11-14 05:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by David R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take a look at the website from the American Center for Law and Justice (www.aclj.org) and read some of the materials there. There are, sadly, several people who want to purge America of its (our) Christian and religious heritage.
Please remember, there is no such thing as the "separation of church and state"--the phrase doesn't appear in the Constitution at all, but only in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, CT., Baptists.
As for a lawsuit, this reminds me of something I'd heard before, namely, that some people would complain if there was nothing to complain about!
2007-11-13 13:23:23 · answer #4 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Certain 'types' of people spend their waking time searching for new ways to be offended. They are completely blind to the fact that they are wasting their short, miserable vapor of a life with such trifling. Life to them is but one big offense to there high state.
This is the very reason you can be jailed in this country for telling someone about God's love. Taken to jail. Strip searched. Orifices prodded.
I cannot explain it. All I can say is I am extremely glad the next word is completely opposite of this one. This country (US) is completely bankrupt, both morally and financially. Mass media is despicable; turning our undereducated over stimulated youth into whores and stupid thugs, lovers only of themselves.
2007-11-13 13:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this world is blank if you do and blank if you don't. Can you please any body? Can you just assume a duck walks like a duck and acts like one and says he is a duck. Make him one?
Is there anyone in this life that is not offended at least once so far. Sure anyone can pray.But I am sure he was looking for the effectiveness of righteousness. Righteousness according to the word of God is. Taking the word of God seriously. Acting on it as law. Abraham was counted righteous by believing God.
2007-11-13 13:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm of the techniques-set if the guy is petty sufficient to wish for a chocolate bar, or for god to make someones team win over the different, then that's a controversy between them and god - and that they are going to ought to describe it later. yet to assert human beings can not pray for notwithstanding they want is likewise tremendously unacceptable. human beings already attempt to legislate another element of my existence; now law of theory and prayer? i don't think of so. As for different factors- frequently, definite. For the grand section, what such and so does of their abode, loose time, and so on has no impression on me and that i could not care much less what they do. yet I do care on different subjects, like violence, injury to belongings, dropping organic components and different greater effective and what I deem important subjects. as an occasion, I care who's working my interior sight government. i don't care who wins on Survivor or if it even maintains - nonetheless at circumstances i'm baffled it does proceed.
2016-09-29 04:54:33 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What can I say, too many people act stupid these days. When I was a kid I never remember this stuff...the believers were not nutjobs then, and the non believers didn't need (and no reason) to try to beat them at their own game. Everyone was normal still.
2007-11-13 13:12:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lawsuits have gotten WAAAAAY out of hand. Court systems have better things to worry about.
2007-11-13 13:08:18 · answer #9 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he shouldn't off asked anybody to pray during a government meeting. It is the separation of church and state. Very simple.
2007-11-13 13:09:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋