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Originally posted by Stinger
Interesting... It's hard for me to imagine one could be so easely offended to something like that. Is it that they are only afraid of stepping on people's toes, or are people over there actually gonna cry about it once they think their toes start to hurt, supposedly because acceptance of religion is being supported in public? |
They think that by having to say "In God we trust" or "one nation under God", their constitutional rights have somehow been offended. The first amendment reads that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (
source). In other words, prayer and God shouldn't be in our public schools because that would be respecting a religion, thus violating a person's first amendment rights, should they have already chosen not to respect
any religious institution. So people complain about anything religious that they feel violates this.
Now recently there was a man who objected to having his daughter say "One nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm willing to bet that this very same man would come together in time of a crisis and look to God for guidance and safe-keeping. This is the hypocrisy of our nation.
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Originally posted by dids
I live in the only Italian region where you have Catholic religion class in all your 13 years of school. There's a cross in every building, in every class room, on mountains.. There are only churches. I think there are a maximum of 10 families who aren't Catholic over here. Since my mom isn't Catholic, she had me signed out of Religion every year, and it was never a problem. People asked whether the cross offended me, but why should it have? I honestly just don't see how a cross could offend someone. I think one of the reasons there were never any problems is due to the mutual respect. That's what it boils down to. |
America does not have this respect. In order to learn about religion, ANY religion, I have to go to the specific church or pay to learn it. Religious schools are private schools and typically very expensive. When I was a kid, I went to a private Christian school, but only because it was between the two towns that my parents lived in. When my mother moved, I was taken out of the school because it was just too expensive. We went to church, but eventually stopped due to life just happening.
In a public schoo,l, you will not learn about God or the idea of creation. In a private religious school, you will not learn about evolution. Creationists continually battle with public schools to teach creationism (the universe was created in six days, literal translation of Genesis) along side evolution, giving them equal time. But I'm willing to bet that they wouldn't give evolution any time in a private school.