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Title: Christians Blast Bloomberg For Not Inviting God To 9/11 Memorial Ceremony
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gothamist
URL Source: http://gothamist.com/2011/08/24/chr ... ns_blast_bloomberg_for_not.php
Published: Aug 25, 2011
Author: gothamist
Post Date: 2011-08-25 12:12:01 by Brian S
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Views: 51101
Comments: 76
The atheists aren't the only ones making a stink about the goings-on at Ground Zero; the former Deputy Mayor under Rudy Giuliani is lambasting Mayor Bloomberg for excluding religion from the upcoming 10th anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center. "This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," Rudy Washington tells the Wall Street Journal. "I feel like America has lost its way." Bloomberg has never let spiritual leaders hold prayers or sermonize at any of the annual 9/11 gatherings, but Washington, who organized an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium after the attack in 2001, says he's "very upset" Bloomberg isn't making an exception this year (it being the diamond anniversary and all). And Washington's not the only God-fearing fulminator: City Council Member Fernando Cabrera, a pastor at New Life Outreach International in the Bronx, says he's just plain "shocked" the clergy isn't on the list. To be fair, it is quite an exclusive event this year; even Chris Christie had to practically beg to get a plus-one. "There are hundreds of important people that have offered to participate over the last nine years, but the focus remains on the families of the thousands who died on Sept. 11," Evelyn Erskine, a mayoral spokeswoman, tells the Journal. That's a very diplomatic statement, but we all know the real reason is the mayor doesn't want the headache of another atheist lawsuit.
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
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I thought Jesus said that prayers are to held be as private and unobtrusive as possible.
Jesus and God are two different things. God created the world, screwed it up totally, chose the Jews as "his" people, and then tormented them ever since. God has since changed his name to Allah and has sided with a different group of semites. Jesus came as the replacement for God. His track record is mixed, but at least he's not the vicious bastard that God is.
Allah in Arabic and EL in Hebrew is the same root in the Semitic languages.
Fixed it up for ya.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThis is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," Rudy Washington tells the Wall Street Journal. "I feel like America has lost its way
#7. To: mininggold (#2)
I thought Jesus said that prayers are to held be as private and unobtrusive as possible.
#10. To: Skip Intro (#7)
God has since changed his name to Allah
#12. To: Godwinson, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#10)
Allah in Arabic and [Be]EL[zebub] in Hebrew
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