On the subject of the cartoon, I don\u2019t think it will even take pagan prayer in schools to suddenly get some Christians who say they want prayer in school to have second thoughts. I would expect Protestants who ignore or oppose the separation of church and state to do an about face as soon as a Catholic leads their child in a prayer to Mary \u2013 a topic I blogged about a few years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I saw this cartoon on the blog Pantheon\u00a0and thought I should share it: The post in which it appeared is a collection of pagan humor. You absolutely must click through and read the pagan version of the poem \u201cFootprints.\u201d Then come back here and let me know if you think that it is better than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1646,7075,8093,8605,9411,9668,10169,10878,11083],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-catholic","tag-mary","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-pagan","tag-prayer","tag-protestant","tag-religion","tag-schools","tag-separation-of-church-and-state"],"yoast_head":"\n
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