Home » Education » Middle & High School » Middle and High School Schools

Guestbook

Reply

skiesgreen Jan 13, 2012 @ 12:18 am | delete

As a spiritual person there is no need to hammer kids with religion. My connection with God is within and is always there to be asked for help or advice. No need for man made prayers and mythology. Also kids don't need to be brainwashed and forced into boxes that segregate and demand things which are unnatural, such as what happens in Moslem schools and patriarchal organisations that think women are not good enough to be part of the spiritual side of God should be barred from preaching. Perhaps you should put up some modules for people's views on where they stand with this subject. Good lens, however, and nicely broached subject.

Reply

PastorKay Jan 13, 2012 @ 12:36 am | delete

I can only assume that you didn't read this page at all, but instead scrolled straight down to post and angry and anti-religious opinion that you hold. There is nothing here about "hammering kids with religion". This page explains the rights students have to practice the religion they already believe in and to share it with their peers in student led activities. I don't see how you can relate the freedom of religion we have to the lack of freedom of religion in certain Muslim schools. As for adding modules asking people of their view on this subject, I don't really care to engage in debate about whether we should have freedom of religion. To me that is obvious.

Reply

skiesgreen Jan 13, 2012 @ 5:16 pm | delete

I am sorry that you took this comment to mean that I am angry because I am not. People do what they have to do, The point I am making is that schools should be a place for learning and not religion, You state that these things are obvious to you but where do you get that view from? Where do the kids get their religious view from? It's all about relevancy and things being in their rightful place in a democracy where religion is for some but not others.

Reply

PastorKay Jan 13, 2012 @ 6:36 pm | delete

Where do I get the view that it should be obvious that Americans (and even children are Americans) have the freedom of religion? The first amendment to the Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..." Therefore, you cannot stop a student from praying, from reading a religious text of their choice, from talking to their friends about God. That would be "prohibiting the free exercise thereof". I am not suggesting that the school lead the prayer, but that they allow it. Where do you get your view on "rightful place" - religion is a life choice, not an hour in a pretty building once a week. Equal to a student's right to pray, is a student's right not to pray. Equal to a student's right to read a Bible is a student's choice not to.

Reply

Tipi Jan 12, 2012 @ 8:49 pm | delete

We are still a people that will strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. I've never gotten the prayer issue because anyone can pray at anytime and a public display is not essential to prayer. Most of the time I pray with my eyes open with no special posture and am in normal conversation with God either silently or verbally.

Reply

ivchisholm Mar 31, 2011 @ 12:45 pm | delete

Good lens! Lensrolled you on 'read-our-constitution'

Reply

Kylyssa Feb 23, 2010 @ 11:18 pm | delete

Finally! Someone who gets that prayer is still allowed in school. They just stopped led prayers or required prayers in public school. Prayers led by school staff are not a good idea in a country with a great diversity of faiths but individual children praying or getting together and praying is an entirely different thing. That allows for freedom of religion while led prayers do not.