Source of the Protest

[Guest guest]

In browsing through some of the press on this I just found the source

that rallied all of *three* people to protest a Hindu prayer in the

Senate. Check it out, and the low calibre and high ignorance of this

organization is pretty obvious:

 

HINDU TO OPEN SENATE WITH PRAYER! TAKE ACTION NOW!

 

Send an email to your senator now, expressing your disappointment in

the Senate decision to invite a Hindu to open the session with prayer.

On Thursday, a Hindu chaplain from Reno, Nevada, by the name of Rajan

Zed is scheduled to deliver the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate.

Zed tells the Las Vegas Sun that in his prayer he will likely include

references to ancient Hindu scriptures, including Rig Veda,

Upanishards, and Bhagavard-Gita. Historians believe it will be the

first Hindu prayer ever read at the Senate since it was formed in

1789.

 

WallBuilders president David Barton is questioning why the U.S.

government is seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god.

Barton points out that since Hindus worship multiple gods, the prayer

will be completely outside the American paradigm, flying in the face

of the American motto " One Nation Under God. "

 

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" In Hindu, you have not one God, but many, many, many, many, many

gods, " the Christian historian explains. " And certainly that was

never in the minds of those who did the Constitution, did the

Declaration [of Independence] when they talked about Creator --

that's not one that fits here because we don't know which creator

we're talking about within the Hindu religion. "

 

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Barton says given the fact that Hindus are a tiny constituency of the

American public, he questions the motivation of Senate leaders. " This

is not a religion that has produced great things in the world, " he

observes. " You look at India, you look at Nepal -- there's

persecution going in both of those countries that is gendered by the

religious belief that is present there, and Hindu dominates in both

of those countries. "

 

And while Barton acknowledges there is not constitutional problem

with a Hindu prayer in the Senate, he wonders about the political

side of it. " One definitely wonders about the pragmatic side of it, "

he says. " What is the message, and why is the message needed? And

will it actually communicate anything other than engender with folks

like me a lot of questions? "

 

Barton says he knows of at least seven cases where Christians have

lost their bid to express their own faith in a public prayer.

 

Zed is reportedly the first Hindu to deliver opening prayers in an

American state legislature, having done so in both the Nevada State

Assembly and Nevada State Senate earlier this year. He has stated

that Thursday's prayer will be " universal in approach, " despite being

drawn from Hindu religious texts.

 

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SOURCE: http://www.afa.net/Petitions/issuedetail.asp?id=257

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, " Devi Bhakta "

<devi_bhakta wrote:

>

> *** Well....I guess we have the goofball protestors to thank for

this

> historic prayer event's making it to www.cnn.com [laugh] ***

>

> Devi Maa has a wicked sense of humor, eh? ;-)

>

> I love the fact that these so-called " defenders of Christianity "

were

> actually in town to lobby *against* hate-crime legislation ... AND

> that it was their boorish behavior that actually ended up garnering

> support and publicity for the event they were supposedly

> protesting. ;-p

>

> *** I too wish there'd been more of a supportive audience present

for

> Mr. Zed, but maybe it was just a communications issue -- perhaps

the

> Washington D.C. area papers didn't pick up the news of the upcoming

> prayer, and so (Hindu) folks didn't hear about the event. ***

>

> It's really too bad. The DC area has a pretty huge NRI population.

It

> would be great to have seen at least a few dozen supporters in the

> visitor's gallery. I hope Zed distributes his remarks to the U.S.

and

> Canadian Indian-expatriate press and spreads the word about this

> landmark event.

>

> *** In any case, as a friend points out, the historical

significance

> of the prayer event still stands. ***

>

> Yes indeed. It's a pretty cool accomplishment.

>

> As for Sanskrit -- I think he was gracious to use English, but even

> dual English-Sanskrit would have been awesome to see.

>

> DB

>