Christian activists disrupt Hindu prayer in U.S. Senate
And you know what? It was wrong!
I am a Protestant Christian. Not a particularly good one, but a Christian nonetheless. I believe in freedom OF religion, rather than freedom FROM religion. I believe the correct interpretation of the Constitution is that the government shall not establish any single religion as the state religion. Therefore, services of all religions must be honored at some point. None will be given preference, nor will peoples be kept from practicing their form of religion - as long as it breaks no other laws or usurps the rights of other individuals.
So, it does not bother me one little bit that the U.S. Senate invites practitioners of various religions to occasionally come into the Senate chambers and offer up a prayer. And, if you look at the prayer that was given by the Hindu priest, it was admittedly pretty generic:
“Let us pray,” he began, “We meditate on the transcendental glory of the deity supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of heaven. May he stimulate and illuminate our minds.
“Lead us from the unreal to real, from darkness to light, and from death to immortality. May we be protected together. May we be nourished together. May we work together with great vigor. May our study be enlightening.”
Wow, that was painful. Except for the requisite intonation of “Dear Heavenly Father” at the beginning and “In Jesus Name” at the end, it wasn’t all that different from many Christian prayers.
I know I beat on left-wing wack-jobs in this blog on a regular basis, but I freely admit that the right has plenty of its own freaky-deaky types. Today, we saw another example of that.
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