I am not against prayer, I did get embarrassed when I was a
kid and out to eat when my folks would say a prayer before eating but at home
it didn’t bother me. I think the reason it
bugged me as a kid was that it drew attention to us as being different. Now we as a society celebrate differences, as
long as the differences are what we believe in or what we see as normal. I am willing to bet that someone who stands
up for someone who wants to pray in a public place is not the same person who
will stand up for the right to have a ritualistic branding. It is kind of funny that even though we are
saying we are an open and free society, that we are all brothers and sisters,
we should come together and celebrate our differences but then point out what
makes us different. I think that we are
becoming more a polarizing society than we were before, there are democrats and
republicans, Christians and atheists, meat eaters and vegetarians, gays and
straights. Within each of the above
groups there are many great people but there are also many zealots. If we truly are a society that wants to get
along, open your eyes and your hearts.
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