We're not. I was completely thrown when I first heard the news about the day of prayer, and should have known that people don't bother looking into these things, especially after the Orca, that WASN'T SHAMU, killed someone at seaworld, and NO ONE knew the facts. The only thing that happened was that President Obama isn't having a ceremony at the White House for the day of prayer. The ONLY president to have a ceremony at the white house for the day of prayer was George W. So Obama is only doing what every other president other than GW did.
I've seen various responses to the rumors from the expected outbursts of disagreance, to rebuttals at the outbursts. One rebuttal caught my attention, the person commented saying if you're only concerned about praying 1 day a year there's a problem. It's a good argument. Now were the national day of prayer really at stake then there might be more to say to the rebuttal, but it's not so there isn't.
What bothers me about this whole thing is that I saw very little to no love from Christians on this matter. What I did see were plenty of cutting remarks, anger, frustration, and ignorance of the issue at hand.
"If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing."
That is the whole reason I don't watch FoxNews or any other 24 hour news channel. No matter what religion they say they are, they are all too busy cutting each other down to worry about what's really important.
ReplyDeleteI'm involved in some of the things the Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice) is doing, and they're all over this case like white on rice... one of my jobs is to get people's names on a petition Jay is taking to the Supreme Court and straight to Obama himself as part of a lawsuit being jointly filed by 31 states. An amicus brief is in the works right at this particular moment.
ReplyDeleteWhat's happening here is that Obama is discriminating against Christianity. He refuses to observe or allow the observance of the Christian's day of prayer in Washington DC because he was "afraid it would offend people," yet he personally welcomed Muslims directly in, and even involved himself in their national day of prayer. He doesn't care that he VERY MUCH offended Christians by shutting down our prayer in Washington DC, but allowing Muslims to pray without holding the same rules/reasoning of not offending someone with their prayer.
He decided in his own brain that Christianity is offensive while Islam is not. That's the problem. He's discriminating against Christians because he's trying to appease Islamic leaders, many of which have declared themselves anti-American. Instead of standing up for his country and the Christian values it was built on, he's deciding to change our values to make Muslim leaders feel better. That's why people are so outraged about this. I'd hate to be in his shoes on Judgment Day if he doesn't repent of this crap right now and put a stop to it.
Jordan Sekulo isn't fighting President Obama, he's fighting a decision made by Judge Crabb that the national day of prayer is unconstitutional. Obama, is still recognizing the National Day of Prayer. Besides that, the National Day of Prayer isn't a Christian day. It's a day of prayer. Christians are the only ones who pray.
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