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SCantiGOP

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2. Here's your Bible verse:
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 05:44 PM
Jun 2017

I keep it on hand when arguing against forced public prayer:

"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men ... But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to the Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." --Matthew 6:6

This language is obviously King James, which was the result of an English monarch ordering a rewrite of the Bible to emphasize the 'obey your masters' aspect of the original text so no one would question the principle of Divine Right of Kings.

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