I volunteered at a school for Junior Achievement last year and tons of kids wore crosses and WWJD tshirts. No one complained. Its not inflicting your religion on someone else.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Enron executive commits suicide > >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
