1. Is it alright for the choir to be singing so many sacred songs? It is for a Christian holiday but the University doesn't have an official religion. Why sing just Christian songs? Why not throw some secular and maybe even Jewish songs in there too? Does the fact that we're singing for a Christian holiday justify my University singing sacred songs despite there being numerous secular songs for Christmas?
-the sacredness of a song is only held by the individual. If you don't consider them sacred then they're not. There's no reason that it can't include some beautiful secular songs or songs of other religions as well. Have you asked? Everyone celebrates the holiday with what it means to them. Are you objecting to the songs because of their origins, or are you saying that a balance of religios and secular songs is more appropriate.
2. Whose rights outweigh whose? In the United States there is the freedom of religion...but when does it get to the point that you're actions are stepping on someone else's rights? If I were to protest and get us singing secular songs would that be stepping on their rights to practice their religion for a religious holiday?
No one's rights outweighs another. I'd like to see signs and billboards that aren't anti religion, but pro-free thought. I think a lotof the Christian propoganda is anti secular establishment, and that's why there's a backlash in society. If Christianity wouldn't be so pervasively forceful and less anti-secular and more pro-Bile in a less agressive way I think it'd be more productive. Your protests are just expressing you want of a diferent song in the line up, it doesn't limit their freedoms, they may not like it, but they should respect it.
3. What point is too far? I understand incidents like my teacher aren't that important since she doesn't do it often and I could always complain...but what point is it just too much? At what point does expressing your faith become an attempt to convert others to your faith?
If there is mutual respect and an opennes from both sides expressing your beliefs, whaever they are, isn't an attempt to convert. It's the point where you go from trying to see the other person's perspective and clearing up their misnomers, and the point where they're force feeding you stuff you've rebutted over again. Good Christian witnessing, IMO, delivers a message and that's it, it's up to the other person to come half way and want to hear the message.
-the sacredness of a song is only held by the individual. If you don't consider them sacred then they're not. There's no reason that it can't include some beautiful secular songs or songs of other religions as well. Have you asked? Everyone celebrates the holiday with what it means to them. Are you objecting to the songs because of their origins, or are you saying that a balance of religios and secular songs is more appropriate.
2. Whose rights outweigh whose? In the United States there is the freedom of religion...but when does it get to the point that you're actions are stepping on someone else's rights? If I were to protest and get us singing secular songs would that be stepping on their rights to practice their religion for a religious holiday?
No one's rights outweighs another. I'd like to see signs and billboards that aren't anti religion, but pro-free thought. I think a lotof the Christian propoganda is anti secular establishment, and that's why there's a backlash in society. If Christianity wouldn't be so pervasively forceful and less anti-secular and more pro-Bile in a less agressive way I think it'd be more productive. Your protests are just expressing you want of a diferent song in the line up, it doesn't limit their freedoms, they may not like it, but they should respect it.
3. What point is too far? I understand incidents like my teacher aren't that important since she doesn't do it often and I could always complain...but what point is it just too much? At what point does expressing your faith become an attempt to convert others to your faith?
If there is mutual respect and an opennes from both sides expressing your beliefs, whaever they are, isn't an attempt to convert. It's the point where you go from trying to see the other person's perspective and clearing up their misnomers, and the point where they're force feeding you stuff you've rebutted over again. Good Christian witnessing, IMO, delivers a message and that's it, it's up to the other person to come half way and want to hear the message.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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