“Any other name but Jesus”
A city manager in California has banned police and Fire Dept. chaplains from publicly praying in the name of Jesus (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/city-scolded-banning-chaplains-praying-jesus-name/). In fact, he went so far as to say they could pray in “any other name.”
Huh? You mean like… Zeus? Lucifer? Huitzilopotchtli?
But see, according to this bacterium in Carlsbad, CA, praying in Jesus’ name “creates a hostile work environment,” yatta-yatta. Inclusive! Non-sectarian! Nothing’s changed except the names: the idols and false gods are still there.
Whom or what does he pray to? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
The city council is being urged to lift the ban. I’ll be surprised if they do. How hard is it to find a liberal church wallah who says it’s perfectly OK to ban Jesus? And in California, no less.
Ban Jesus??? Well, good luck to them on that one. They better watch it, they are treading on
very dangerous ground. Boy, how I would love to be there to address those fools!
It brings to mind Gamaliel, when he pointed out that opposing early Christians might place them as fighters against God. If I approach God, I have to approach in the name of Jesus. Without that, the prayer is meaningless. It would be like mailing a letter, without a postage stamp.
Oh, how “tolerant” and “accepting” they are being…
./sarcasm
“Inclusive” always manages to exclude Jesus Christ.
I don’t want people praying in the name of Allah or Satan, so in the name of the Lord is okay with me. Jesus sees the heart and knows if a prayer is in His Name or not. At our city, whose population is 90,000+, at the National Day of Prayer Service all the major city officials took turns praying for our nation and all of them prayed in Jesus Name – that’s why I love living here instead of California which I left in 1977.
I hardly dare imagine how that would turn out, here in NJ,