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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Prayer at commencement ... Roy Costner IV Liberty HS valedictorian


Public school valedictorian recites Lord’s Prayer at commencement to raucous cheers [VIDEO]

Meet Roy Costner IV, this year’s valedictorian at Liberty High School in Liberty, South Carolina.
At the school’s commencement ceremony on Saturday at Littlejohn Coliseum on the campus of Clemson University, Costner defied pressure to keep religion out of the public-school event in a fairly epic way.
He walked to the podium with his school-approved speech in hand. Then, in front of the crowd, he tore the thing up, reports local NBC-affiliate WYFF.
After speaking for a bit, the senior cut to the quick.
“Those that we look up to, they have helped carve and mold us into the young adults that we are today,” Costner said in his speech. “I’m so thankful that both my parents led me to the Lord at a young age. And I think most of you will understand when I say…”
Costner then proceeded to recite a full-length version of the Lord’s Prayer, the pivotal Christian prayer that is attributed to Jesus in the both the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew.
The audience members began to cheer tentatively and then heartily once they realized what Costner was saying. The applause eventually became so loud that it drowned out Costner’s voice.
At the end of the prayer, after Costner says, “Amen,” the audience breaks into another round of wild applause.
The people sitting behind Costner — presumably school officials, teachers and the like — did not clap.
A local man, Brian Hoover, provided some background about what provoked Costner to pull his stunt, and what caused the crowd to react so strongly.
“From the ACLU sending FOIA requests to every district in the state this year after the Chesterfield County case, then the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent us a complaint about religion at board meetings and some other issues as well.” Hoover told WYFF. “That is why the reaction to the prayer at graduation was loud.”
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