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• Darrell Baumbach posted at 3:27 am on Fri, Oct 19, 2012.

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  Kevin stated to Rick...How long have you had this ability to look into the hearts of faceless masses you can't even see?

  Mr Crowder stated to Kevin...Kevin, atheists don't "hate" God or Jesus. You probably don't believe in leprechauns, unicorns, Zeus, or Odin

  response... faceless people are not unicorns and are subject to hate that Kevin is referring to. Kevin makes so much sense and the atheists have so much hatred and resentment for people who have the ability to pray, that that they suffer from their animosity without knowing it. How unfortunate.

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• Andy Crowder posted at 3:34 pm on Sun, Oct 14, 2012.

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  Kevin, atheists don't "hate" God or Jesus. You probably don't believe in leprechauns, unicorns, Zeus, or Odin. Do you hate them? It's difficult to hate something that doesn't exist, isn't it? I imagine it would become tiresome for you though if people stood in the public square shouting prayers to appease Thor, then mounted political campaigns to make sure school children were taught that it is Thor wielding his mighty hammer that causes thunder, not some unreliable science nonsense described in a textbook.

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• Rick Houdack posted at 2:24 pm on Sun, Oct 14, 2012.

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  i feel my cognitive abilities are at least as infallible as Carolyn Hadden's self-righteous and disapproving condemnation of her fellow citizens and your hateful Christian judgment of me. If you will re-read what Hadden wrote, without your raging prejudice against my observation, you will see she organised not a silent, private prayer, but the spectacle of a public meeting on a certain corner in the public square.

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• Kevin Paglia posted at 10:58 am on Sun, Oct 14, 2012.

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  How long have you had this ability to look into the hearts of faceless masses you can't even see?

  Or is it that you just find it easier to judge people who believe in something you hate?

  Don't bother we all know the answer to that,

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• Rick Houdack posted at 4:46 pm on Sat, Oct 13, 2012.

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  The net purpose of this event is the display of participants to one another.

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• Kevin Paglia posted at 1:05 pm on Sat, Oct 13, 2012.

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  Rick, you have half the story.

  Matthew 6:5
  "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full."

  Yes Jesus did admonish those who prayed in public TO BE SEEN PRAYING IN PUBLIC. These are the hypocrites who pray in public as a way to be seen and as an effort to increase their standing in the community.

  But this is diferent from a public gathering to pray for a cause with fellow believers in an effort to make a spiritual change. Not to be seen or for personal benifit, but rather to be a part of one unified voice.

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• Rick Houdack posted at 6:15 am on Sat, Oct 13, 2012.

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  Didn't Jesus admonish his followers to do their praying in private, in their own houses, rather than in the public square, like the hypocrites do?

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