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Originally Posted by Schroeder
Being an atheist myself I find the whole thing pretty absurd. As long as I'm not forced to join in a religious ceremony I don't have any problem with people who are praying to their god(s) and don't see any reason to forbid them to do so.  |
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Originally Posted by Skybird
If it is a public school, the state has to make sure not to propagate or support any religion in the public space. It's called secularism, and is based on the 1st amendement:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; [...]
People' freedom ends where they practice it at the cost of the freedom of others, hence: keep away religion from state-run institutions and the communal public space. Leave it to the private sphere of the individuals.
That is where personal belief in the divine belong anyway. What is between you and your God, is your intimate business only for which nobody else must care. Where you claim the public sphere for your belief, you are supressing others, and turn from religion to politics.
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Secularism must be embraced by states but NOT by individuals. Prohibiting people to pray in public is restricting their belief even banning them.
No one should be forced to pray as no one should be forced not to.
US and Europe are turning into atheist society and with that more and more atheists are filling governmental positions and high society structures. This, incident like this, is only following this trend.
The funny aspect about many of people who declared themselves atheist is that they are in all objectivity are not just an atheist but they are anti-religion whether specific one or all.
If the trend continues before long practicing and expressing religious belief will be banned from public events and places. The real motive to this is to hinder the propagation of religious beliefs and make the majority of population atheists or even better anti-religion.
The irony is that this anti religion atheists are only in all objectivity members of their own beliefs which is anti religion and anti God.
It's a sad thing especially for people like me who truly knows and not just believe that God exists and even had a glimpse/peek of Him.
My ordeal in Singapore whose rulers are atheists proved that they harbor a passion of hating anything genuinely religious. The irony is that they even engaged in spiritual warfare using spirit to break me and my faith. In other words they are fully aware of the power of spiritual worlds but gives no respect towards the idea of the Holy Creator. My life is a testimony to them which they seem to neglect or ignore. There's no point pointing out or even showing every single miracle if people have decided not to use their brain and conscience. The fools cannot be cured if they decided to stay as fools because there's no limit to man's foolishness, his lies and excuses and vanity and the comfort of their stupidity.
The catch is even religious establishment and religious people wouldn't help or stand with me and even blamed me!!! NO wonder there's no power in their worship. There's no knowledge in their spiritual life. There's nothing in them as their worship is just superficial. It's the kind of worship to make them feel better and nothing more than that. They pray their prayer and then think after that that God disconnects with them until the next time they pray again. It's worse than being an honest atheist, much worse. Because they admit with their mouth the power of God but deny Him with their actions.