Keep the Lord’s Prayer
Sir: Chris Ashton has outlined three reasons why recitation of the Lord’s Prayer should be removed from Australian parliamentary proceedings (‘Lose the Lord’s Prayer’, 1 February). As a non-Christian, allow me to propose three reasons why the recitations should remain.
First, I believe that one important and unifying purpose of religion is to provide some basis for setting the moral compass.
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