tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310981.post119640447664609044..comments2024-03-04T07:45:15.155-07:00Comments on Hackman's Musings: Putting God Back in SchoolsAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494823779999456396noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310981.post-8704047114141093122013-01-01T14:12:06.886-07:002013-01-01T14:12:06.886-07:00I don't disagree, but you are speaking of a na...I don't disagree, but you are speaking of a narrow situation with older students setting the agenda. When people refer of getting god back into schools, they are usually referencing a somewhat romanticized version from pre-50s America where daily prayers were said and Bible scriptures were used within student curriculum. <br /><br />I can only speak to conservative evangelicalism with any kind of experience, but I cannot imagine regular readings from Islmaic, Hindu, or Wiccan holy books going over very well.<br /><br />Were any of those prayers at the HS graduation offered by a non-Christian religion? Even so, many folks are tolerant, as long as they are dominant. Start putting Christianity to every fourth or fifth prayer with the rest being non-Christian, and you would likely get some push back. Look at the level of push back being exhibited by much of Christianity over very small encroachment... and they are still vastly dominant.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494823779999456396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310981.post-38599901676179556372012-12-31T11:27:02.041-07:002012-12-31T11:27:02.041-07:00It's an interesting idea, whose version of God...It's an interesting idea, whose version of God to put back into the schools. My high school had a remarkably diverse population, for Salt Lake City. At four of the five graduations in my family (from 1979 to 1984), graduating seniors offered the prayers (opening and closing), and I know that not all of them were by the dominant religion. No one stood up to protest. No one walked out. No one objected to anything said in any of the prayers. Respectful civility happened. By the time my youngest sister graduated in 1988, prayers were no longer offered at Utah public high school graduations.<br /><br />I think that it's skewed to judge what the majority of people think and how they would behave based on what is presented in the media. Extreme behavior sells, so it is what you get in the news. I don't think that most people would get their panties into a twist, unless only one religious view was allowed, but if everyone was given an equal chance (religious and non) to participate and provide education about their beliefs, imagine what it would do for tolerance in our society.one crazy girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00958965908844386840noreply@blogger.com