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Christianity in America is so fucked up
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 (October 6, 2014 at 6:13 pm)Lek Wrote: I just now read about a girl who was thrown out of the classroom because she said "God bless you" to another kid. I'm sure that the teacher was not a christian. I was going to say a few christians could conceivably have become enlightened enough to act as this teacher did, but I suppose you know better than me how impossible that would be.  (October 7, 2014 at 4:03 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 6, 2014 at 6:13 pm)Lek Wrote: I just now read about a girl who was thrown out of the classroom because she said "God bless you" to another kid. I'm sure that the teacher was not a christian. What? Enlightened enough to deny the students a basic right under the constitution? 
Would you be as defensive of a child getting penalised for saying "Allah be praised"? What about "May you be forever cleared of Thetans? Or "Sorry, I don't worship a god"?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (October 9, 2014 at 7:32 pm)Lek Wrote: It's ok with me. We're supposed to have that freedom here in the USA. Fair enough. I just wanted that for the record.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (October 9, 2014 at 7:32 pm)Lek Wrote:But this is exactly why prayer in schools is not officially condoned. People can pray all they want in schools. Even non-religious underachievers have probably uttered a prayer in their heads or under their breaths before a final exam. Christians tend to think it's just them being singled out. But any official announcement of sanctioned prayer is liable to stir a huge hornet's nest of offended people who believe in all kinds of strange things.(October 9, 2014 at 5:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Would you be as defensive of a child getting penalised for saying "Allah be praised"? What about "May you be forever cleared of Thetans? Or "Sorry, I don't worship a god"? RE: Christianity in America is so fucked up
October 11, 2014 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm by Lek.)
 (October 11, 2014 at 7:12 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't think schools need to make an official announcement about prayer one way or the other. They don't, The Supreme Court already did. Quote: If a student wants to pray in the hallway, the quad or the lawn, let them do it. Of course, you can't let them just open up during class or something like that. If a christian student is standing there shouting out a prayer, trying to cause a disruption, then they should be silenced. That would be because they're causing trouble, not because they're praying. That's good, because that's exactly what the law is.
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