(August 28, 2011 at 7:14 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Here's something I'd take into account: are they pointing to the posters and using them as aids to teach or encouraging you to follow them? If not, I'd treat them like the stupid posters they had around our school saying "You're one of us!" (We were Stonewall Jackson High - "The Wall" - Enter many jokes about not being "just another brick in the wall". Fuck I hated that place.)
They are more or less just there, no referances or encouragement. Kids talk about them sometimes, more or less in the sense of "Look! even the school believes in Jesus!" ...but not that enthusiastically.
I'll make a request to have the specific quotes that are infringing into constitutioinal rights removed, but if they say no I probobly won't make it into a big deal.
If it gets more heated in the future, I suppose I might take it further, but now it is mainly a thorn in my side, similar to "one nation, under God" and the "moment of silence".
Pink Floyd FTW, by the way.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
