Not bad responses. I consider a faith to be a belief or belief system. A Religion is an organization that may be founded around a faith.

From that, I ask this. Is it possible to have a prayer, grounded in faith, that does not promote a religion?

The U.S. Constitution's first Amendment speaks about the establishment of religion, but doesn't mention faith. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ...". We see in the news, however, many attempts to equate faith with religion. For example we've seen attempts to remove the words "Under God", at most a statement of faith, from the U.S. pledge of allegiance because it "establishes religion".

Do you think that this is simply a bad interpretation of the Amendment or do you think that this is due to a bigger attack on religion in the U.S.?

For those who don't live in the U.S., are you seeing such things where you live?


-- Jeff

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