Public School sponsored "Army of God" prayer meetings

[Thebobo]

So this. A "resource officer" (school cop) has the students hang around the flagpole during school time and preaches to them.

"About a month ago, at DeKalb West Elementary School in Tennessee, students gathered around the flagpole to pray to their God, as many young Christians across the country did.

But this wasn’t a legal, student-initiated demonstration. This gathering involved staff members, including School Resource Officer Lewis Carrick, who took the microphone and urged the kids to be “an army of God that will stick together and relinquish themselves unto His service.”

Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friend...lementary-students-in-tn/#V9szFsZOx6T85svP.99

 

[kage69]

Lewis Carrick doesn't understand his job or American religious liberty.

You want to work in a church, go work in a church. This shouldn't be happening in public schools, bible belt or not.

 

[zinfamous]

Why are Christians so violent with their armies?

 

[bshole]

We need an army of Godless

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

They can have their prayer meeting but it has to be students. He can do what he did if the students wish but not on government property.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

We need an army of Godless

Well we do have Trump and his ilk

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Meh. Bring on the war on Christmas stories. It's about time for those to start rolling in.

 

[IronWing]

Meh. Bring on the war on Christmas stories. It's about time for those to start rolling in.

A portrait of Mary and Joseph visiting Planned Parenthood?

 

[Thebobo]

A portrait of Mary and Joseph visiting Planned Parenthood?

If only I could photoshop/draw well that would be a great graphic.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

If only I could photoshop/draw well that would be a great graphic.

Everything is on the internet already.

 

[alien42]

So in an Atlanta Ga suburb this has been going on apparently for a while. A "resource officer" (school cop) has the students hang around the flagpole during school time and preaches to them.

"About a month ago, at DeKalb West Elementary School in Tennessee, students gathered around the flagpole to pray to their God, as many young Christians across the country did.

But this wasn’t a legal, student-initiated demonstration. This gathering involved staff members, including School Resource Officer Lewis Carrick, who took the microphone and urged the kids to be “an army of God that will stick together and relinquish themselves unto His service.”

Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friend...lementary-students-in-tn/#V9szFsZOx6T85svP.99

this is in TN and has nothing to do with Atlanta. the county names are the same, but not the same state.

 

[Thebobo]

this is in TN and has nothing to do with Atlanta. the county names are the same, but not the same state.

You are correct and that makes a lot more sense.

 

[brandonbull]

We need an army of Godless

We have them, but you can call them Democrats.

 

[zinfamous]

We have them, but you can call them Democrats.

I would wager that the army of the godless would fare well against the army of the brainless.

 

[ch33zw1z]

school employee stays outta it, and the students arent missing, class then oh well. and of course, treatment of religions needs to be the same.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I would wager that the army of the godless would fare well against the army of the brainless.

it would most certainly hold no party affiliation. godless christians are abundant.

 

[woolfe9998]

We have them, but you can call them Democrats.

Fine by me. I'd rather be godless than brainless.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

it would most certainly hold no party affiliation. godless christians are abundant.

Sadly this is very true.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Why are Christians so violent with their armies?

Because nobody would believe that crap unless forced to. The only way Christianity grows is by swordpoint.

 

[bshole]

it would most certainly hold no party affiliation. godless christians are abundant.

I suspect that all humans are godless, I KNOW that all Christians are Yahwehless. There is a 0% chance of the God of the Bible actually existing. Seriously the creator of the entire universe decides to wrestle some goat herder in the desert, feels the need to impress Satan by torturing a human, rides into Jerusalem on two asses to fulfill "prophesy" (based on mistranslation), etc...? bitch please.....

 

[ch33zw1z]

lol, immaculate conception - beeyotch pleeeezzzeee

 

[J.Wilkins]

I suspect that all humans are godless, I KNOW that all Christians are Yahwehless. There is a 0% chance of the God of the Bible actually existing. Seriously the creator of the entire universe decides to wrestle some goat herder in the desert, feels the need to impress Satan by torturing a human, rides into Jerusalem on two asses to fulfill "prophesy" (based on mistranslation), etc...? bitch please.....

I would argue that the concept of that particular God is incoherent in its proposal that it's omniscient and allows free will.

That is a logical impossibility.

 

[bshole]

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[J.Wilkins]

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The point of my post is that there are philosophical arguments made that are logically incoherent, those are the ones you should be using since that is a direct attack on the philosophical concept "God as we know him exists".

You cannot convince anyone by using the "lack of evidence" or "common sense" ideas, that is simply not possible.

In fact, you can probably not convince anyone by pointing out that THEIR claim is a logically incoherent philosophical claim but you can end their philosophical argument doing that.

And probably lend a great deal of credibility in the eyes of others while doing so since it's an intelligent way of having a discussion.

 

[bshole]

The point of my post is that there are philosophical arguments made that are logically incoherent, those are the ones you should be using since that is a direct attack on the philosophical concept "God as we know him exists".

You cannot convince anyone by using the "lack of evidence" or "common sense" ideas, that is simply not possible.

In fact, you can probably not convince anyone by pointing out that THEIR claim is a logically incoherent philosophical claim but you can end their philosophical argument doing that.

And probably lend a great deal of credibility in the eyes of others while doing so since it's an intelligent way of having a discussion.

LoL, that wasn't directed at you. I posted something that in hindsight wasn't very good so I removed it.

I agree 100% that an omnipotent God is logically incoherent. No Christian can define the attributes of their God.

For example, if your God is omnipotent, can he suck his own cock? Can he feel remorse? Can he feel guilt? Can he do evil? If he can't, he is not omnipotent by definition. If he is omniscient, then he cannot have free will BY DEFINITION, all of existence is just movie rerun watching for him. He is powerless to change a damn thing, it was foreordained an infinity in the past.

Laughingly, there are over 100 occurrences of God changing his mind in the Bible.

"So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people," (Exodus 32:14, NASB).

Of course being omniscient, he knew an infinity in the past that he would "change his mind". So if he knew that he was going to change his mind, in what sense did he change his mind?