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Pengwuino
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Jelfish said:Duct tape? What am I, an infidel?
no no, your a heathen, I am not muslim. Now convert!
Jelfish said:Duct tape? What am I, an infidel?
Wishbone said:ya seriously.
I guess when you are going to celebrate a holiday, you shouldn't be able to actually...celebrate...the...holiday... This makes sense...
Its a Christmas tree, not a magic tree, not a holiday tree.
Pengwuino said:no no, your a heathen, I am not muslim. Now convert!
Curious3141 said:Say the handful of Muslim students wanted to do something schoolwide to celebrate their religious days. Would you be 100 % OK with that ?
Jelfish said:Hmm does your religion celebrate hedonism and gluttony? I've been needing a good excuse lately.
Also, infidel generally means non-believer (think infidelity)
Pengwuino said:Why wouldn't someone be ok with that?
Jelfish said:When you're 10 years old, you don't always look at things from a learning perspective. In fact, I almost became a Christian because I thought it was a cool club where you have these holidays where everyone gives presents and put up pretty decorations and every one is so happy and love love love. If an Islamic preacher went to a public school during a Muslim holiday and preached about its meaning to young children, I'd be willing to bet that people would get upset.
Pengwuino said:No... but you only have to go to church once a week! And they do a lot of good music!
Oh and a lot of catholic churches have a lot of pancake breakfasts.
Thats all the peopel seem to do at my mother's lutheran church, eat eat ea te atejkfla;sdf eat eat ea t eat eat eat eat pray eat eat eat eat eat.
Jelfish said:Hmm good music. Pancakes. And all I have to do is unquestionably pledge my allegiance and faith to the Penguin Tower? I suppose most people choose a religion for its fringe benefits anyway. I'm in!
Pengwuino said:And your parents had what to say about this? Do parents just release children into daycares and schools and think their responsibility is over until the weekends?
Pengwuino said:no no, that's for christianity.
Pengwuinoism requires you worship the Penguin, pray to the penguin 10 times a day, and give your life to the Cause. This religion, however, kicks ass. We're not all lovey-dovey and love thy neighbor. In 2020, we plan on forceably take over the world using a secret army being trained and armed down in the north pole.
Jelfish said:I thought most penguins lived near the South pole. Or did I just give away the surprise tactic..
Jelfish said:My parents didn't really care because neither of them are religious. In fact, I went to Catholic high school (for the education). But let's not move this to a 'parent/teacher responsibility' debate. Regardless of whether the parent speaks out, the school has a responsibility to keep it self in line on these kinds of issues.
Maybe I'm not fit for your religion afterall. I don't think I'd be comfortable in a tuxedo all the time anyway.Pengwuino said::grumpy: :grumpy: :grumpy: :grumpy:
This is just like when the LA Times leaked to the public the plans for our ice submarine!
Pengwuino said:Schools should keep itself in line by letting people do what they want and giving them a choice, not forcing peoples personal beliefs out of their life.
That's exactly the point. Show me an atheist who gives a fig how you greet them at Christmastime. There aren't any. We have better things to obsess over.Pengwuino said:I didn't know the first amenmdent was a non-issue...
I have heard this over and over and I just don't get it. Where are the massive protests against "mentioning christ"? Where are the business boycots against those mentioning christ? I just don't see any.
What I see is advertisers makeing a choice probably based on polls and demographic studies and christians getting their panties in a wad over another non issue.
Above we have Mark warning against "drilling atheisem into kids to much" (!) while christians are complaining that people aren't useing the word "christ" in everyday conversation enough. Talk about drilling.
This is the most screwed up non issue complaint I have heard from christians in some time. (Well, several weeks anyway.)
Jelfish said:By people, you are also referring to mentally malleable K-6 children. They don't always know enough to be able to make choices, so when you say, as the all-knowing teacher, that "a magic stork drops babies down the chimney, and that's how you were born," they'd believe it. Therefore, they have a responsibility to not (accidentally) proselytize young children.
Right - and I acknowledge that distinction that there's a cultural and religious dichotomy with Christmas. And I even said in my first post that it's not worth the controversy and annoyed parents and children to filter out a cultural celebration because of a religious tie that most people don't acknowledge anyway. In the end, the people who are hurt most are the people who want Christmas to be purely religious.Pengwuino said:But its federal law that you should let these kids celebrate whatever religous holiday they want, its the 1st amendment, you can't force religion or non-religion on someone. If some 8 year old has a santa hat or a cross on or something, that is not in the bounds of the US constitution. Teachers arent exactly going around telling people to be Christians and letting a kid sing christmas carols is about as unconstitutional as a teacher letting a child sing his or her favorite disney song.
Pengwuino said:Why wouldn't someone be ok with that?
Speaking of muslims, this one muslim girl i knew in high school said she had to pray 6 times a day. Now the thing I wonder about is what happens during school hours? I never noticed any muslim children ever pray... and I'm sure the school wouldn't be able to forbid them from doing that or else that's outright religious persecution right there (but then again schools are forbidding voluntary/personal praying already).
Pengwuino said:Im sorry that you are so impressionable pattylou but you might want to go ask the ACLU as to who has a problem with Christmas since... yah ... they tend to sue a LOT of people over it. Maybe if you stopped listening to journalistic dropouts on their blogs, you would be more open minded and see the crap christians have to deal with instead of selectively picking out bits and pieces here and there to believe.
Curious3141 said:EDIT : Why is it that when I edit my posts (I'm using Opera), the paragraph spacings disappear ?
Pengwuino said:Whats a xian? I'm assuming a christian...
I don't see how they know where Mecca is all the time. Hell if someone told me to go north at a cross-street, there's exactly a 75% chance i'd end up going the wrong way for christs sakes.
The school will get yelled at that since some people believe that calling thingsrefer to Christmas trees as “magical trees"
rachmaninoff said:I think it's disgusting that people are making a joke out of freedom of religion. Comparing "happy holidays" to an attack on religion is an insult to all those who don't have these freedoms, to those who know what religious persecution really means.
rachmaninoff said:Avoiding the subject?