Comments on: Academy Midday Prayer “Coercive” http://www.thedeckplates.com/2008/07/academy-noontime-prayer-coersive/ Just another Navy guy writing his story... Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ray http://www.thedeckplates.com/2008/07/academy-noontime-prayer-coersive/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Ray Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:01:36 +0000 http://www.thedeckplates.com/?p=32#comment-35 The military is totally volunteer. Nobody is forcing them to come in and have to listen to a prayer. And besides, listening to a prayer is no different than hearing someone's thoughts and concerns spoken for all to hear. Nobody in the military has EVER pressured me to go to church or believe in something I don't want to. Either listen to it, or don't! The choice is easy. It must be a pretty thin skinned person to get offended by words as kind as a prayer. (and no, I'm not a Christian) The military is totally volunteer. Nobody is forcing them to come in and have to listen to a prayer. And besides, listening to a prayer is no different than hearing someone’s thoughts and concerns spoken for all to hear. Nobody in the military has EVER pressured me to go to church or believe in something I don’t want to. Either listen to it, or don’t! The choice is easy. It must be a pretty thin skinned person to get offended by words as kind as a prayer. (and no, I’m not a Christian)

]]> By: DriK http://www.thedeckplates.com/2008/07/academy-noontime-prayer-coersive/comment-page-1/#comment-21 DriK Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:14:34 +0000 http://www.thedeckplates.com/?p=32#comment-21 Religion is all around us, the US Motto: In God We Trust, Pledge of Allegiance: One Nation Under God. It can never be a private affair and I will be long dead when it does. What you are talking about and what they are complaining about is different. They feel that if they don't pray, the will be treated unfairly and looked at differently, which is indeed fucked up. One of them did it to conform, and to say that if she didn't she would be treated differently? If I was one of her classmates, I would be appalled to have someone be fake to me because he or she things I'll treat her different? I could care less about what people believe in. Even when they tell me one thing and years down the line they say "Yeah I did it because I didn't know what you would think" I still wouldn't care. What pisses me off is that you'll assume that I'll treat you unfair and it is then broadcast to the ACLU and big Navy? That right there is fucked up. How about you punish those who are found to be coercive towards those who don't pray. Religion is all around us, the US Motto: In God We Trust, Pledge of Allegiance: One Nation Under God. It can never be a private affair and I will be long dead when it does.

What you are talking about and what they are complaining about is different. They feel that if they don’t pray, the will be treated unfairly and looked at differently, which is indeed fucked up. One of them did it to conform, and to say that if she didn’t she would be treated differently? If I was one of her classmates, I would be appalled to have someone be fake to me because he or she things I’ll treat her different? I could care less about what people believe in. Even when they tell me one thing and years down the line they say “Yeah I did it because I didn’t know what you would think” I still wouldn’t care. What pisses me off is that you’ll assume that I’ll treat you unfair and it is then broadcast to the ACLU and big Navy?

That right there is fucked up.

How about you punish those who are found to be coercive towards those who don’t pray.

]]> By: Lloyd http://www.thedeckplates.com/2008/07/academy-noontime-prayer-coersive/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Lloyd Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:05:09 +0000 http://www.thedeckplates.com/?p=32#comment-20 I don't like the evening prayer. I just shut my mouth about it... perhaps I should be "comfortable about myself" and boisterously claim that I am upset or annoyed each evening? To have people stand with one another at either attention or parade rest during prayer I think is totally different than the evening prayers we receive and the prayers you mention we make in our head. The difference is one is public the other private. Religion should be a private affair. I don’t like the evening prayer. I just shut my mouth about it… perhaps I should be “comfortable about myself” and boisterously claim that I am upset or annoyed each evening?
To have people stand with one another at either attention or parade rest during prayer I think is totally different than the evening prayers we receive and the prayers you mention we make in our head. The difference is one is public the other private. Religion should be a private affair.

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