Do you think that by taking God and religion out of everyday life that the PC Patrol is ruining your life?

Question

I do not WANT a STATE ordered RELIGION.
**I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE SOLD A HOLIDAY TREE this Christmas.
** I want to say "God Bless You" to the graduating class of 2007 without the mike being shut off.
** I want to say Happy Kwanza and Hanukah to everyone and have them say Merry Christmas to ME.

More shootings in school as we take away God and morality - shock!

Answer 1

Well Merry Christmas and God Bless America. I think there is a lot more shootings and problems since anti-depressants hit the market. Rap Music is another problem in our youth. Along with computers and Mothers that work outside the home. I stayed home and raised my kids. My son has been in jail only once.

I think I'm agnostic

Answer 2

With all due respect, it's a big jump to say the reason we have school shootings is due to "no god in school".
Keep in mind, not many can agree on how to worship (why do you think there are so many different christian groups?).

If anything, school shootings have more to do with problems in society (namely bad parenting, and the fact schools are too afraid to dicipline because of the threat of a lawsuit). Not because "god is not in school". Besides, if you allow one version of god in school, you must allow ALL of them. Don't believe me? Read the First Amendment.

Back to the issue at hand, Call it whatever you want is what I say. They say "Happy Holidays" because there are so many holidays being celebrated at this time of year. Include them all.

And before you give me "Jesus is the reason for the season", Christmas used to be celebrated in August/September, it was moved to Dec. 25 to coincide with the pagan celebration of Yule. They did this with quite a few other holidays. The customs of decorating a tree, and giving presents were "borrowed" from the pagans. Interestingly enough, in medieval times, Christmas celebrations had been banned for being "too pagan".
The Puritans did not celebrate Christmas for the same reason.

Hey, the PC patrol has managed to anger a lot of mainstream america. It doesn't hold as much power anymore. Keep in mind who is in power,
Congress= Conservative Republicans
House= Conservative Republicans
President= Conservative Republican (and completely nuts)

Answer 3

Thanks for a good question. I'll start writing now and I'll continue writing for the rest of my life to come up with a good answer for your good question, because it's about the most complex and most misunderstood question there is: how can we believe what we believe, but still be respectful of others?
Kind sir, the Constitution of the US does not allow that any laws can be made regarding the free practice of religion and that constitutional law has been under attack from all sides for a long time. It still stands, because so many of us believe so strongly that it must stand to assure all of us the right to believe what is in our hearts and so to choose freely whether or not to serve God and to choose what form our service will take.
I believe that no person can honestly make a commitment any other way except by exercising a free choice. To compel another person to make this kind of choice is only to ask a person to tell a lie by saying that he or she believes in something that he or she actually does not believe.
That is page one. Here you must decide if this is the proper way to do things or not. You suport the right to make religious choices in accordance with your own beliefs or you do not. There are very few countries in the world where this right can be found. Let us feel thankful for our luck.
I can see the way you've phrased your question. I can see your sense of fairness. I can see that you are willing to give, but that you want something in return. I wish I could assure you that you can be spiritually generous and that you can expect to be repaid for your kindness. But I'd be lying if I told you that. Sometimes we give and give and never get anything back. Sometimes we give and we don't get back nearly as much as we gave, but we get something. The question right now is how much strength to give do you have left?
My real suggestion is much more simple. When you meet friends of other faiths who are nonetheless good people like you are, offer them a deal. You will say "Happy________" and they will wish you a Merry Christmas. You will be sensitive to their wishes and they will be respectful of yours. It works if you put a smile on it.
By the way, students are not fobidden to pray at school. They are merely restricted to silent prayer.
And now a slightly more complicated bit of advice. We have to learn to explain and to treat morality in a generic way. It is no longer acceptable to say that something is right or wrong because a certain scripture says it is right or wrong. We have to understand and be prepared to give real explanations about right and wrong in human terms. You can do this because of the lessons that faith has taught you. I am proud to be your fellow citizen regardless of any different names that you and I might place on our beliefs because the only real questions are whether we can agree on right and wrong.
It's a few months early just yet, but I hope you have a Merry Christmas.

Answer 4

if someone wants the PC crowd and government stopping some forms of free religion.They shouldn't scream when the PC crowd and government stops what they believe and say.Freedom isn't stopping only those you disagree with freedom is allowing what others(including those you disagree with say and do what they want to say and do(Can't be one and not the other or it's not freedom).Please say what you want, but remember, not everyone wants to believe how you believe.
Jesus loves you.

Answer 5

I'm glad that I can practice freely at a church of my choosing. I thank the laws that protect freedom of religion for that. To want that for yourself, and not for others, is wrong. And I'm glad I learned right and wrong from my family, and not the government. They don't need to get involved, it is not their job. Why is it always christians who want to force their traditions on the world? After all, Christams and Easter are already nationally recognized holidays, and nobody is attacking that. Sometimes we have to make sacrifices ourselves, in oprder for our fellow brothers and sisters to have access to the same great wonderful things we have access to. If you want to be a proper christian, don't make your religion a politiclal issue. It cheapens it for the rest of us who take our religion seriously.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Nobody has taken religion out of my everyday life. You shouldn't let them take it out of yours either.