RE: High School Atheists
March 9, 2011 at 10:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2011 at 10:59 pm by everythingafter.)
(March 8, 2011 at 9:58 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: But this one irritates the fuck out of me because it's so simple, and it's a matter of fairness. If you're going to let a bunch of douchebags (and yeah, they were douchebags up where I used to live) gather around the school flag pole with students in the mornings to pray, you can give the atheist students an empty class room for a couple hours.
I see and hear so many instances of illegally supporting religion in the local school that I cover up here for the newspaper, it's ridiculous: prayers before games (or after or both), Christian music playing during pregame warm-ups before basketball games, etc., prayer prior to public meeting of local government bodies The thing is, Christianity is so entrenched here that no one cares and no one seems to see a problem with it ... other than the four unbelievers in the county (exaggeration, obviously, but you get the picture). Three of whom work with me. lol
Even when I was a believer in high school, I had no desire and felt there wasn't much of a point in gathering around a pole to pray. It always seemed like more a status symbol kind of thing rather than an attempt to do any good. But, of course, the gatherers' notion of "good" would be to spread the gospel to the ends of the Earth. You know, not any real tangible, helping-our-country-be-a-better-place kind of good.
(March 9, 2011 at 2:39 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Sounds very American to me... if you don't worship the god of capitalism you're screwed too ..it's training for life!
However cheeky that last part was supposed to be, Frodo, allowing one religious group of people to gather on a public school site and not allowing another secular group to meet is an unAmerican as it gets. As it turns out, it seems believers (which would be many, many school officials in the nation and probably all of them in the county in which I live) are terrified of that word, "atheist," and they should be since their position is completely indefensible. The intellectually honest believers know it, and at least have the guts to say that in the face off all the evidence against their fairy tales, that faith is all they have left.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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