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Judge: School Pledge Is Unconstitutional
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From
19/09/2005 20:41:45
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
19/09/2005 17:05:00
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>What does that mean: IWPFY ?
>
>Google hasn't found it, nor did Wikipedia, but I think it means "I will pray for you".

Nor did Acronymfinder, which is the first place I would have started.

>Which is, IMO, the arrogance we were talking about.
>
>To my fellow humans of Christian persuasion: please, don't. I don't need it, specially not when you say it in a context of a dispute like this. To me, it seems that you think there's something utterly wrong with me, and you so offer to pass a request to your deity - to do what? Show me the error in my ways? To forgive me because I don't know what I'm doing? To save me - as if I was something to put in a bank account? Or to just save me - from what? From things I don't believe in?
>
>I would also like to ask what would be a proper response from an agnostic to someone who wishes me merry Christmas, while we're in the "does not apply" department. If I wished the same back, does it have any validity, coming from an unbeliever? Because I only wish them to have good time and be happy for their holidays. Also, what would be a polite way to thank for good wishes, however misguided they were, knocking on wrong door? I usually manage a slightly confused smile and a few not-fully-articulated words, because I really don't know what to say, and I don't want to offend you. Just like I wish not to be offended. So... what's proper?

I have similar problems - not knowing how to react. Although I do believe in God, it so happens that we have our own holidays!
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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