Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/19/07 22:35

Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> 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?".
>
>

Sounds like it could have been an excellent opportunity to educate them
on how much Judaism and Christianity have in common.


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