Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/18/07 21:18

Shelly wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message

>> all. Or if I want to pray in school, why is it your right to say I can't?
>
> You can, silently. The school just can organize it nor say this is the time
> for it.

I've got something to say about that.
As a Jew who grew up in a North Texas neighborhood full of Seminary
School dropouts, I had to go to school with waaaay too many of the
half-wits' kids.

Prayer time in school was just another way for religious freaks to bring
their hateful, faith-based divisiveness into the classroom and to
redirect valuable educational time away from education, to be used to
promote their faith, while denouncing others'.

I remember the looks I used to get, when everybody else bowed to the
magic sky pixie, and I (quietly and respectfully) just bided my time.
Then, when the prayer was over, some idiot Christian would complain to
teacher that "bucky didn't bow his head".

Then, of course, I'd have to explain to them all that Jews don't pray
that way and answer a lot of really stupid questions - like, "Do Jews
really eat their baby's placenta?" and "Why do you worship the devil?".

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