1. Christians disrupt Hindu Prayer at Senate Invocation

Comment #56061 by Shining666 on July 13, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Have these people no manners or decency? I hope those raving madmen interrupting the proceedings got booted out roughly by the Sergeant.

2. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #52865 by Shining666 on June 28, 2007 at 9:39 am

I thought Douglas Adams put it very well: " I am convinced"

3. Row over religion's role in US jails

Comment #52039 by Shining666 on June 26, 2007 at 2:20 am

"Do you really want a society where the government has to decide on funding social programs by investigating the religious beliefs of the people, involved, and then making some sort of qualitative judgement about those beliefs."

Mr. Emecz, of course not. That is not at all the issue here. No one is interested in the private beliefs of these workers . What people are getting angry about is that, in the process of doing the vital and good work of instigating reform for these prisoners- all paid for by government money- they are indoctrinating them into Christianity while they're at it.

"The prisoners rise up as one to pledge their allegiance to Jesus and the Bible and to their new selves."

This is not about "private beliefs". These workers are abusing their position to win converts for their religion and, to my untrained legal eyes, appear to be pretty blatantly violating the separation of Church and State- a fundament of American civilisation.