>What > you are saying is that you want to be able to show other people that you > pray. Somehow, I doubt God really cares much how you pray to Him.
Maybe what he's saying is that he would like to practice his religion without feeling like he is forced to hide it so as to not offend anyone. That sounds familiar ... I believe the phrase, "don't ask, don't tell" comes to mind. Rough analogy, but you get my point. > Let me ask you, if I came into class every day and said a Satanic chant, > maybe every hour, do you think most people would mind? You bet they would. > Parents would freak out. And what if I was the teacher and came in and wore > my Krishna getup? Handed out flowers and flyers asking for money? Where DO > you separate it? I don't know. Where do you seperate it? What if I was a student and I wanted to visibly wear a cross. What if the teacher wears one? What if I carried a holy book around and read it in public, like say at lunch, or study hall? I am pretty sure someone would complain eventually. > Why does everyone think the past was so nice with prayer in school and > "family values". Let's see, family values in white dominated south in > 1860s - 1970s, with prayer in school and all, meant discriminating against > blacks. In many cases killing them. That is an inflamitory and unfair comment. Race and religion are seperate issues. It's sad that some people use religious beliefs to justify discrimination, but it's not the cause of it. Racial discrimination is a socialogical problem. Religion is used to justify it when there is no other rational explanation .. it's like playing the "but, but, it's for the children *sad face*" card. > Oops, well some people doing it anyway. > Being a black mail in Alabama in the 50s was probably not the greatest thing > in the world. Hey, what do you know, that is the same as today. Nothing ever > really changes, people discriminate how they will, through all of time. Maybe that has more to do with human nature than main-stream religious beliefs. Isn't that the whole point of religion .. to believe in something greater than yourself and/or to serve as a model to follow to rise above our own human failings? Don't blame religion itself when people are too screwed up to get it right. > -Gary ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
