(November 20, 2014 at 9:30 pm)dyresand Wrote:(November 20, 2014 at 2:45 pm)JaceDeanLove Wrote: I go to a small Tecas high school. Our principal just gathered all the high school students and we had a Thanksgiving prayer... I would be fine with this if it wasn't forced, and they didn't make it a prayer specifically to Jesus
you know you can tell them you cannot do that i can refuse to pray because i do not believe in prayer.
Easier said than done. He's in high school. He might not be "out" as an atheist. Depending on your personality, the last thing one might want to do in high school (in Texas no less) is to profess atheism. This is one of the many reasons why mandatory prayer in school is a bad idea. Singling out people who may not want to participate is a byproduct.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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