Dalai Lama to lead US Senate prayers

yahoo.com ^ | 3/5/2014 | unknown

[rktman]

The Dalai Lama will lead the US Senate in prayer on Thursday as the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets leaders of Congress, his office said.

[rktman]

CHURCH AND STATE! CHURCH AND STATE! Where's that outcry? Maybe I'm too early.

[Starboard]

The senate doesn’t have a prayer of doing anything right.

[tractorman]

Anything but a Christian prayer is OK.

[Salvavida]

Let’s just go full-bore stupid, and add some eastern mysticism. As if Christ didn’t work out for this country.

[beethovenfan]

He’s a buddhist. To what or whom does he pray?

[onedoug]

soebarkah’s not inviting him to golf? “Long hitter, the Lama.”

[DoodleDawg]

Anything but a Christian prayer is OK.

The Senate Chaplain opens every session with a prayer, and to date every Senate Chaplain has been Christian. So what kind of prayer do you think they offer?

[grania]

Let's just go full-bore stupid

Yeah, *issing of China when we're stretched too thin to defend Taiwan or those Japanese islands is just about there.

It's like Obama is so dumb that he can't take two separate facts and see how they impact one another.

[DoodleDawg]

Gunga, gunga-lagunga

[napscoordinator]

The Congress always has a prayer. Too bad they don’t really listen to it. Although the House Republicans until 2014 had been pretty good. 2014 they have sucked almost as badly as the Democrats.

[Sacajaweau]

Buddhism is not a religion...There is no God as part of it.

[tractorman]

Probably a generic prayer.

[Farmer Dean]

I work with a Buddhist at my day job.I’ll have to ask her and get back to you with her answer.

[martiangohome]

Depends on whose definition of religion you use.

[MeshugeMikey]

church ...state and google..nonetheless

[TurboZamboni]

Maybe Annie Geller will tackle him and stop him.

[Viennacon]

You are correct, and I don’t have a problem with the Dalai Lama coming and giving some sort of spiritual talk in the senate. I don’t have anything in common with him theologically, but he seems like a good man.

What I want to know is, is the Freedom From Religion nutcase society going to protest this like they do anything Christian. I won’t hold my breath.

[ifinnegan]

Buddhism is pantheistic and ancestor worship.

There are many gods prayed to and appeased by ritual as well as prayers and ritual for ancestors to help.

[The Great RJ]

The Dalai Lama's Buddhist teachings include that those who do evil to other people, lie and spread untruth will be punished by being reborn in a lower state. He should warn Harry Reid that he is in danger of being reincarnated as a hyena's dingle berries.

[SWAMPSNIPER]