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In reply to the discussion: Inauguration: What's with all the praying? [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)I really love my president but that's one facet of his character which I find reprehensible and utterly disgusting. He allowed Rick "Fucking" Warren to give the inaugural sermon four years ago. I was so disgusted that I turned off the TV and saw nothing more of that auspicious and culturally changing event.
But Barack Obama did this year precisely what he did four years ago. He pandered to the Christians; he gave the "Christian Nation" crowd comfort. No! Nobody invoked Jesus' name. But merely the fact that he did not hold the public inaugural on Sunday -- the Christian sabbath, but few others -- gave comfort to that very idea.
What do Jews, or a Moslem, or a Seventh Day Adventist, think when a president is inaugurated on Saturday? Sunday is special nearly exclusively to Christians.
But the Constitution says nothing of this. Nor does it say anything about prayers, nor "so help me God" in the oath.
Enough of this rubbish!