Sask mom wants mandatory prayers banned in public schools
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They don't do personal prayer in public. Prayer for others can be done in public. Besides, all they do is hear The Lord's Prayer over a PA system. Probably 100%of them don't actively listen but they may grow up knowing it. If there is a God, lucky them and should there not be, it won't matter.
JLM I remember in my day in the early fifties we had the Lords prayer
even a passage from the bible. I hated going to church by the time I
was six and I resented both. I didn't resent going out and dealing with
the flag making sure it was done right but I sure didn't have much truck
for religion. Never had anything against others believing what they want
but I listened to the stuff they were talking about miracles and all that
stuff at church and then even a few minutes at school. Believed some
but not most of it. I have always regarded it as the stuff they feed the
masses so they will be distracted from reality or to fill them with fear.
I can only remember what I felt not what others feel and it was not a
happy experience for me filled me with negativity for a lot of years but
we all come to terms with ourselves. Besides religion is slowly losing its
relevance today and in another couple of generations it will not be
relevant at all. What happens when the majority turn on it like they do on
everything else? People will be protesting the minority rights must be
respected. And in some ways I think it does harm. It gets children to be
passive and except certain truths without questioning truth itself.
We are in a state of faith doesn't cut it and today we can't trust science
and who funds it.
even a passage from the bible. I hated going to church by the time I
was six and I resented both. I didn't resent going out and dealing with
the flag making sure it was done right but I sure didn't have much truck
for religion. Never had anything against others believing what they want
but I listened to the stuff they were talking about miracles and all that
stuff at church and then even a few minutes at school. Believed some
but not most of it. I have always regarded it as the stuff they feed the
masses so they will be distracted from reality or to fill them with fear.
I can only remember what I felt not what others feel and it was not a
happy experience for me filled me with negativity for a lot of years but
we all come to terms with ourselves. Besides religion is slowly losing its
relevance today and in another couple of generations it will not be
relevant at all. What happens when the majority turn on it like they do on
everything else? People will be protesting the minority rights must be
respected. And in some ways I think it does harm. It gets children to be
passive and except certain truths without questioning truth itself.
We are in a state of faith doesn't cut it and today we can't trust science
and who funds it.
I'm open to most opinions about religion and for myself I have more problems with the people involved with the religion than religion itself. I started going to Sunday School when I was about 6 years old and from the age of 8 or 9 started attending the Anglican Church services at the insistence of my mother and like you I hated it. I think Mother's main reason for attending was she didn't want to take "any chances". I did come out of it believing in things like the Golden Rule and basic ethics like honesty so in those ways I suppose it didn't harm me. Early on I did twig on to the fact a lot of hypocrites attend church. I kind of like the modern expression "Attending church no more makes you religious than sitting in a garage makes you a mechanic".
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Good reason for an impromptu hymn sing on the public sidewalk right in front of said people's place.