Re: Ex-Gang Member Reaches Out to Local Youth

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DBP
Member

No. I certainly don’t mind if Carlos Garza tells people about how he found God.

But there’s a big difference between telling someone that YOU found God and asking them to bow their heads and pray along with you.

This is why many people object to religious invocations at school ceremonies: not because an invocation would be an expression of any one person’s faith, but rather because it would be an expression of everyone’s faith. Which it is not.

Another example:

When Mormons come to my house, I’m always happy to sit with them and discuss their beliefs — as long as I have nothing better to do. But I always draw the line when they ask me to kneel and “ask Jesus to come into my heart.”

Why? Because that would be “begging the question” or assuming as proven that which was to be determined by argument. Namely: Does God exist?

See the difference there?