Comments on: Maybe god doesn’t want to go to school http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/ Resources for skeptical, de-converting, or former Christians...... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eve's Apple http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-32333 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:44:26 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-32333 Prayer in schools? Well, when people ask me, I tell them I went to a praying school and a non-praying school and I couldn’t tell the difference between the two. Because I had learning and social difficulties caused by undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome, I was constantly teased and bullied by the so-called normal students, and not one person in authority in either school ever stepped in to put a stop to it. On the contrary, i was the one disciplined, restrained, punished, etc. So I have very strong feelings regarding prayer in school. If you want to teach children lip service, if you want to teach them hypocrisy, if you want them to end up leaving the faith later on, go right ahead and force the little ones to pray. For most of them it will go in one ear and out the other and they will be all right; but for a few tender, sensitive souls, it will cause them much pain as they wonder why God who supposedly loves and cares for them allows others to pick on them.

Funny how you never hear about prayer in the workplace though. I bet some of the ones who are clamoring the strongest for prayer in the schools would be the same ones screaming in protest should their employer institute daily prayers!

]]> By: De-converts United for Prayer in Every School (DUPES) « de-conversion http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19980 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:20:54 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19980 [...] more I learned, the more I saw that religion sponsored, taught, and promoted by state/school was the most consistent correlation I could find with an areligious [...]

]]> By: Aussie http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19948 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:50 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19948 My kids were one of the reasons I deconverted. Everytime I heard myself explaining about Creation or miracles of Jesus I started thinking “I can’t believe this crap I’m saying”

]]> By: LeoPardus http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19932 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:41:36 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19932 Bobbi Jo:

CINRS LOL. I love it.

Dubichick:

Oops. Pardon my gender identity failure. Well now I know. Your Dubichick-let sounds quite precocious. Bet she’s a handful at times.

]]> By: baba1342 http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19930 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:56:14 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19930 Bobbi Jo, evangelically i recommend http://blackalicious.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/what-makes-a-man-the-man for your daughter’s case. You might find it helpful, despite the fact that the author haven’t answer his muses, and for sure the next posts will soon be published.

I myself put more interests over our holly-celebs-wood instead of deities.

]]> By: Bobbi Jo http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19928 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:14:22 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19928 She’s only 7 but she is already asking some pretty tough stuff. Not to that extent, but close. When she was 3, I was reading the story of baby Jesus to her and she asked where babies come from. I’m like, uhhh, well Jesus is totally different than the rest of us…but uhhh…I must have mentioned something about an egg because when she was five she asked for a baby sister. I told her it wasn’t that easy, and she said “yeah, just crack an egg in your tummy, mom.” Just recently she asked me how we know that God exists. She definately challenges me.

]]> By: Ubi Dubium http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19926 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:05:24 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19926 LeoPardus:

Thanks for the compliment, but that would be Dubichick!

Bobbi Jo:

She’s 14. High School Freshman next fall. How old is yours?

]]> By: Bobbi Jo http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19924 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:25:40 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19924 Leo, you’re making me laugh!! Do you think the “christians” would get confused and think that if atheists want prayer, then christians should not. they might start a group called Christians Intent on No Religion in Schools. CINRS (pronouced sinners).

Ubi, how old is your daughter? quite perceptive. Reminds me of mine.

BJ

]]> By: LeoPardus http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19922 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:51 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19922 Better name:

Atheists Intent on Religion is Schools (AIRS)

Motto: We don’t want to put on AIRS; just prayers.

]]> By: LeoPardus http://de-conversion.com/2008/06/04/maybe-god-doesnt-want-to-go-to-school/#comment-19921 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:16:14 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/?p=842#comment-19921 Y’all think we could start a new movement?

Atheists/Agnostics United for Prayer in Schools

You just KNOW such a group would get media coverage, as they would want to know just what the hell we were up to.

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