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Hundreds of thousands of Christians from numerous denominations and
independent churches spent at least 3 to 5 minutes in their worship
services yesterday falling on their knees before God, praying for
America. This prayer event was the brainchild of the Family Research
Council, the nation's largest Christian policy organization. Skeptics
from the press believed that this event was a PR ploy to draw attention
to key issues of interest to the organization. Another secular reporter
remarked that the Religious Right had become so discouraged that key
leaders of this movement were using prayer as a remedy for its
discouragement.
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I was 22 years old, standing on a corner at 4th and Walnut Sts in a Philadelphia Business District. An older fellow came up and began a conversation with me.
He said he was a businessman and was observing the foot traffic on the street because he was interested in opening a retail shop on the block. During the course of our conversation the businessman told me he was Jewish. We then had a pleasant conversation about religion. He then told me a story about when he was young.
He said, as a boy, there was a man who was a member of his synagogue who was a bad man. He would cheat on his wife, he would cheat in business, he was crude and rude to other people. Nobody in this Jewish community liked him. Yet every week he would...