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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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18-May-2017, 6:26 PM

Warbler said:

What do you think of this? (I heard about it on my church’s facebook page.)

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/16/school-offering-to-pray-for-colleague-is-unacceptable.html

Have to say, provided the reporting is correct, I agree with Fo. Fox also thinks there’s a War on Christmas, though, so I think verifying with a reputable news source is prudent.

That said, people really don’t understand the whole religion/prayer in schools thing. Prayer is legal, prayer is fine. It’s creating the appearance of school endorsement of that prayer/religion that’s the problem. I was assigned to read (parts of) the Bible in public high school (looong time ago admittedly). It wasn’t a big deal. Why? It was English class–as literature. All discussion was in that frame. Nobody cared, including Mr. Atheist here. And it was good to have read it.