Comments on: Freedom from Religion seeking end to prayers at Toledo City Council Meetings

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:28:21 +0000

Maybe someone needs to say prayers each
day for the people with the group
that is with and sent the letter!

By: meghan

meghan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:24:47 +0000

LOL SensorG!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:48:18 +0000

Jesus criticizes public prayer such as this in Matthew 6.

It is appropriate that the council pray if indeed they actually have any intention of the Lord’s blessing upon their meeting. Nonetheless, the poster who said to have private prayer in the hallway or the other who suggested a moment of silence seem to me to be on the money.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:15:36 +0000

A prayer to God takes only seconds. But it’s reward lasts forever.

By: LisaRenee

LisaRenee — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:15:43 +0000

Sorry Pink you are 100% correct that was Sensor.

By: Pink Slip

Pink Slip — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:59:06 +0000

I wish I could claim credit for those ideas Lisa, but Sensor beat me to it. I was going to suggest getting out the ouija board. The Reagans were big on astrology (explains a lot!)–maybe that’s an option. Or Maybe council decisions could be based on the magic 8 ball. “All signs point to yes”

By: LisaRenee

LisaRenee — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:49:14 +0000

Pink Slip, respectfully we are in a time of budget stress, sacrificing a chicken or a goat would create a scenario where the overtime budget for cleaning Council chambers would sky rocket. Not to mention the fact that it would offend the PETA supporters in Toledo, further complicating the scenario. As to the suggestion of pagan sex rituals…Not to be too mean but I’m not sure we as a public would want to see certain Toledo City Council members engaging in sex, these meetings are after all video taped…Think of the children…

Meeting in the hall to pray would still be having prayer take place in a government building. I’d suggest trying to find a Pastafarian to come in to negotiate some type of a desired outcome.

By: MikeyA

MikeyA — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:37:46 +0000

I agree with Pink. They can meet in the hall afterwards and pray there.

By: SensorG

SensorG — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:23:50 +0000

I’d like to point out that with even with all the praying going on at Toledo City Council, the city is still a mess.

Since praying isn’t working, I say we try sacrificing a chicken or goat at every council meeting for the next few months and see if we can turn things around.

If that doesn’t work we could always try some good old fashion pagan sex ritual in the middle of chambers.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:35:37 +0000

It seems it is okay to show intolerance when it comes to religion. We take God out of schools, out of our council meetings and out of society, then we wonder where he is when tragedy happens.