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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pushing to stop prayer before football games at an American University and the administration is actually looking into their complaint. \u00a0I’ve got an idea. \u00a0This is America. \u00a0Thousands of men and women have died for the preservation of our freedoms, and the freedom “from religion” is one of them. \u00a0If that is what you folks believe practice it, I have no problem with that, but leave me the h— alone. \u00a0I truly do not understand why the folks out there that do not believe in any higher power can’t simply “not believe”! \u00a0I do not try to force my faith down anyone’s throat, I do share with those that ask me. \u00a0I share publicly what I believe and leave it in the hands of others to decide what to do with what I’ve shared. \u00a0Accept it or not, it’s your decision, but I will not start an organization to force \u00a0you to change your mind!<\/p>\n
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People of faith, that I know, are simply wanting \u00a0to live and let live!! \u00a0Atheists and non believers seem to be on an all out crusade to get under the skin of believers. \u00a0Well congratulations it worked, temporarley! \u00a0Here is my offer, I forgive you, I understand your lost and under the influence of the enemy. \u00a0I pray you find faith and live happily every after. \u00a0In the meantime, would you please leave us alone and go on your merry way! \u00a0I promise to do the same……<\/p>\n
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Blessings,<\/p>\n
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The Image? \u00a0The Palouse, where I’m headed next to be with the great Jack Graham and full load of wonderful attnedees. \u00a0Jack’s second detached retina surgery is in the morning and I know he would appreciate your prayers, for those few American that still do!<\/p>\n
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Fuji X-T1 and the Nikon 300mm f 4.5 IF-ED manual focus lens with an adapter.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sorry about that, I just get so upset when this kind of stuff happens, it seems so strange to me that people reject the greatest love that was ever offered to them, truly sad, truly sad. \u00a0I would love to tell any of you guys that are members a truly great story about love and redemption, really would!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pushing to stop prayer before football games at an American University and the administration is actually looking into their complaint. \u00a0I’ve got an idea. \u00a0This is America. \u00a0Thousands of men and women have died for the preservation of our freedoms, and the freedom “from religion” is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14141"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}