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Matthew 6:5
...and whenever you pray you should not be like the hypocrites that love to stand in the assemblies and on the corners of the marketplaces to pray that they be visible to the sons of men, and truly I say to you that they have received their reward; but when you pray, enter your inner room and close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who sees in secret He will reward you in open; and when you pray, you should not be chatterers like the Pagans, for they hope that by many words they will be heard; therefore, do not imitate them for your Father knows what need you have before you ask Him.
The Supreme Court’s "praying coach" case, explained
James Manship, dressed as George Washington, kneels and prays in front of the Supreme Court as protesters for and against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett demonstrated, on 26th October 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Six decades ago, in Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court held that the state may not pressure schoolchildren to pray in a particular way. “One of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way,” Justice Hugo Black wrote for the Court, “lay in the Government’s placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services.”
This basic premise — that government employees should not elevate one kind of faith or religious practice over another — is at stake in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which the Supreme Court will hear in late April.
The case involves Joseph Kennedy, a former football coach in Bremerton, Washington. For years, Kennedy incorporated “motivational” prayers into his coaching. Eventually, these prayers culminated in public sessions after games, where players from both teams would kneel around Kennedy as he held up helmets from both teams and led students in prayer.
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...and whenever you pray you should not be like the hypocrites that love to stand in the assemblies and on the corners of the marketplaces to pray that they be visible to the sons of men, and truly I say to you that they have received their reward...
Amon-Ra (amen).
...and whenever you pray you should not be like the hypocrites that love to stand in the assemblies and on the corners of the marketplaces to pray that they be visible to the sons of men, and truly I say to you that they have received their reward; but when you pray, enter your inner room and close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who sees in secret He will reward you in open; and when you pray, you should not be chatterers like the Pagans, for they hope that by many words they will be heard; therefore, do not imitate them for your Father knows what need you have before you ask Him.
The Supreme Court’s "praying coach" case, explained
James Manship, dressed as George Washington, kneels and prays in front of the Supreme Court as protesters for and against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett demonstrated, on 26th October 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Six decades ago, in Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court held that the state may not pressure schoolchildren to pray in a particular way. “One of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way,” Justice Hugo Black wrote for the Court, “lay in the Government’s placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services.”
This basic premise — that government employees should not elevate one kind of faith or religious practice over another — is at stake in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which the Supreme Court will hear in late April.
The case involves Joseph Kennedy, a former football coach in Bremerton, Washington. For years, Kennedy incorporated “motivational” prayers into his coaching. Eventually, these prayers culminated in public sessions after games, where players from both teams would kneel around Kennedy as he held up helmets from both teams and led students in prayer.
...
https://archive.ph/y8r1h
...and whenever you pray you should not be like the hypocrites that love to stand in the assemblies and on the corners of the marketplaces to pray that they be visible to the sons of men, and truly I say to you that they have received their reward...
Amon-Ra (amen).
