Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

What is the purpose of setting aside time for any sort of school prayer?

 

The logic here is curious. Millions of black kids survived school segregation, but that doesn’t justify the practice. Segregation was wrong. Just as compulsory prayer is wrong.

 

Based on my experience, is school prayer a major shock in a day? No. But how do you quantify being made to feel different each day for 12 yrs of schooling?

See if you’re not subject to the problem, how do you judge what it feels like?

 

You don't think having the experience of being a member of a religious minority in that situation allows for a better understanding of that situation? Are you even trying to have a genuine discussion here?

 

Yet you keep arguing that it isn't much of an issue. Also, that response is a dodge. They don't have to be the same degree of wrong for both practices to be wrong.

 

Your opinion showed the type of ignorance that made the assumption seem like a valid one. Sometimes, assumptions turn out to be wrong. My bad.

You are arguing that people who have faced being a religious minority don't have any better understanding of the issue than those who don't. That simply isn't accurate. A civil rights activist is someone who has chosen to inform themselves on the topic. There are still issues they may not understand as well as someone who is a member of the minority for which they advocate.

Our knowledge is part of the value of our opinions. Experts on a topic have more valuable opinions than those who are not experts. The merit of the opinion itself, of course, is what is most important. In this case, I stand by my primary argument, that yours doesn't have much value. You handled the situation okay, so that must mean it is okay for everybody? Bullshit.

 

Actually, you did. Perhaps you should think more about the implications of what you post.

 

Though I agree to some degree with the sentiment I'd be curious to know what the Tweeter means precisely.

One issue, absolutely, in the church is the dangerous, bizarre mixture of faith and patriotism.

Another is the kind of laughable relativism that flattens out faith until it's basically Unitarianism. Which, if someone wants to be Unitarian, have at it. It's just not Christianity.