Let’s have something of each religion on earth in each classroom of America, it won’t look silly I promise. -_-
Religion doesn’t belong in public spaces.
I’m reminded of that episode in Babylon 5, where each of the major races on the station were showing off their faiths.
Great episode.
one of my favorites.
Vir: “Ah! he has become one with [whatever]!”
Garibaldi: “he’s passed out!”
vir: “That too.”
The other favorite moments? When Lando does the Hokey pokey ,
Delenn getting all Scary
and most the scenes with Bester (good lord I would not have expected that from Walter Koenig. talk about breaking the type cast. he played such an amazing villian.)
Good reference, you get an Internet Point™ from me
Yeah, but one strategy against christian attempts to force themselves into schools is to have a number of different religious organizations request the same right.
Religion doesn’t belong
That one is enough, IMO. It’s an archaic concept we really don’t need any more. (Note: That’s not me saying we don’t need belief or belief systems. We don’t need religion.)
Well I agree with that, religion plays no role in my life, except making me angry at times. But if people want to live in a fantasy on their own time, fine with me.
Eh it’s not a harmless little fantasy.
Yeah but realistically, I can’t do much about the fact that people believe. There are other fights I’m taking on in my life, and doing good around me seems like a more productive way to spend my energy.
Also, I come from a country where atheism has past the threshold of 50% of the population last year (from 25% 10 years earlier). It seems that people are turning their back to religion here anyway.
“Indian” is not a religion. Indian is a nationality - like American, Canadian, Mexican etc. There are no Indian scriptures. It’s like saying American scriptures when you mean to say Bible verses
Okay, for those who only read the headline and not the article, the text is the Bhagavad Gita.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
So, not poster-sized. More like adding a Bible to the library. I think you’re going to run into a tldr problem there. I don’t know the Gita, is there a shorter excerpt that could be on a poster?
Relevant, 2014 (ACLU):
Buddhist Student, Religious Liberty Prevail In Louisiana
Imagine if your child was ridiculed in front of his classmates for his religious beliefs until he was physically ill. Can’t believe it? Neither could we, and that’s why the ACLU and the ACLU of Louisiana sued the Sabine Parish School District on behalf of C.C., a sixth-grader of Thai descent and a practicing Buddhist. You remember C.C.: He was chastised by teachers and administrators at his Louisiana public school for his religious beliefs. School officials also repeatedly, and illegally, imposed their religious beliefs on students in a number of ways.
Today, C.C. and his family won. A federal district court entered an order requiring the school district to refrain from unconstitutionally promoting or denigrating religion. The court’s order also mandates in-service training for school staff regarding their obligations under the First Amendment.
When we filed the lawsuit, many people were shocked by the allegations. In addition to denigrating C.C.’s Buddhist faith by calling it “stupid,” school officials suggested he should transfer to another school with “more Asians.” They also taught creationism in science class, incorporated prayer into class and nearly every school event, hung a portrait of Jesus over the main entryway, and participated in a number of other activities that blatantly violated the separation of church and state.
The court’s order, which took the form of a “consent decree” agreed to by the school board, ensures that these unlawful practices will be discontinued in Sabine Parish and brings the case to a close. We applaud the board for doing right by C.C., his siblings, and all district students.
Unfortunately, however, not everyone has reacted to the lawsuit with the same measured consideration as the school board. While C.C. and his family have received much support from the community (including from some local congregations) and from across the country, they also have been harassed via crank calls to their house and work. And last month, C.C.’s mother Sharon was accosted while doing yard work: Three people wearing KKK-type white hoods drove by her and shouted, “You fucking nigger Asian-loving bitch.”
These incidents further highlight why it is so important that public schools throughout Louisiana, many of which continue to flout the law in this area, rethink their approach to religious liberty.
Had Sabine Parish proactively sought to comply with the Constitution in the first place, the Lanes would not have been forced to expose their family to such vitriol, harassment, and intimidation simply to assert their fundamental rights. We hope their experience and the consent decree will serve as important tools to educate Louisiana’s educators – public school officials – about real religious liberty.
Real religious liberty includes not only the right to express and practice your faith in school, which the consent decree protects, but also the right to be free from the religious coercion and alienation that occurs when a teacher or other school official tries to impose his or her beliefs during class or school events. Real religious liberty means that every child, regardless of faith, should feel welcome in our public schools.
Well that’s gone to shit in the ensuing 10 years.
Do it do it do it!!! Maybe then the Christians will see how stupid they sound and vice versa with that superstitious bs
