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The NEW pledge of allegiance....
15 years ago
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Miharu_Okami
~REv. Wally Bear
Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore because the word 'God' is mentioned...A kid in Arizona wrote this:
NEW School prayer:
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange, or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific. The law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks...
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen
I thought this would be cool to share with the group. It was some cute thing I've read somewhere.
Miharu_Okami~REv. Wally Bear
Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore because the word 'God' is mentioned...A kid in Arizona wrote this:
NEW School prayer:
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange, or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific. The law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks...
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen
I thought this would be cool to share with the group. It was some cute thing I've read somewhere.
I live in Canada, so our national anthem mentions God's name quite a few times. So instead of singing the national anthem at school, we listen to the Canadian national anthem, but the parts that have the word God in it, we sing in French. This is not only annoying for people with a religion worshiping God, but its also a little insulting to the French, thinking that we wont understand or care for the parts sung in French. It makes me sad that people with out a region cant face the fact our anthem is a little Catholic.
It's a shame, really. But I digress, I guess that's what the people want. x.x;
Kinda the same meaning though.
-I think having such a ruckus over the word god is kinda weird. I mean, i come from germany, and we are a secular country, and I don't think its wrong that the US have the word god in the pledge.
-The whole part about right and wrong kinda itches me. Of course, there are some things that are definitly wrong, and even if needed at some points they still are (like war) but in general I think that teaching a clear black and white morale isn't that healthy either. There are many grey zones.
-I don't see anything wrong with condoms or birth control.
-Neither with the whole witchcraft thing. If someone believes he should worship that he can do it, the law allows it as much as it allows me to believe in god. However, they shouldn'tz be able to say the pledge either then and just replace the word god with whatever deity or devil they worship. :P
-Maybe I read too much into this, sorry if I offended anyone.
-Those that hold the view above do see it as wrong, maybe not like an extreme evil but a wrong none the less.
-birth control and condoms...no opinion. (I( need to read again, forget what it says about that, but they boarderline late-term and many early-term abortions which is definitly considered wrong in my book.
-Witchcraft...I really do not want to get into this topic because of my extremely negative feelings toward it. Those who practice it are not evil people, but I view the practice as highly destructive to both the practitioner and the recipiant. In our book devil worship is evil and harms a person. (Kinda like people who say human sacrifice is apart of their religion, and should be tolerated under the first amendment). Maybe not that serious, but as Christians we do view those practices as such.
-Ah, it's good you read into things. Thank you for your imput! I am glad ya brought these points to light! Just sharing my responsive views, lol.
-Well, its not like I automatically dislike persons JUST because they do have a clear black and white morality. I would never do that, I only dislike people if the whole doesn't fits. :P
But I dunno, in my book a black and white morality can lead to very fast judgement and generalization of people, which in turn can lead to much strife. It doesn't has to be, and like I said some matters are just clearly wrong and can't be completely justified, but in general I like to see both sides and not condemn things as good or bad easily.
-Actually if you use birth control you don't have to do abortion, if you do it right. And thats is a plus. You can't really stop teens from fornicating, and better they know how to do it right and not get pregnant than avoid the subject and get pregnant and either fail to keep the baby or worse, abort it.
Sure, if you're catholic you may say that condoms are a way of killing and abortion BEFORE the child is even conceived, but eh, I don't like to see it that way. If I remember right even biblical figures wasted their seed, and while it may not be a good thing, its not a really bad thing either.
-I'm not saying I like wtitchcraft either, I just won't stop people from doing it. :P
Oh I'll tell them my opinion about it and I think they should not do it, be it satanic withccraft or the pagan one that worships natural or almost forgotten deities and totems, but I won't go at all matters to force them to do it, that would not be right. And either way, if I remember right God said something about his followers finding to him any way, and those that do not will have their hearts hardened, so I guess me forcing things would either have no use or lead to them hardening and closing their hearts toward god even more.
And sacrifices are wrong, no matter what religion if you ask me. Thats is, a sacrifice of a living being.
-Thank you, good to see you understand it.^^
Its not my intent to hurt or anger people, I just wanted to give a thought about my views. After all, even as christians we're all not the same, similiar in some ways yes but not the same. And exchanging thoughts can only be good if its done civil and calmly.
-Can go the other way, if there was no black and white morality, then anything can be either good or evil. (Like outright killing someone cause you don't like them is evil, but if there is no line between good and evil...then why not?) Either way has it's ups and downs.
Things just work out that way, "the shades of grey" are so annoying to deal with.
-I am a catholic. I do not see why condoms are even remotly considered a form of abortion. I always believed the stated a person becomes a person at the moment of conception. Prevent conception, no abortion takes place.
Of course there was this one time in the Bible this guy spilled his seed so he could not get someone pregnant, and God punished him. But that was only because the child would not be considered his son. All a matter of mindset, I guess.
-"And sacrifices are wrong, no matter what religion if you ask me. Thats is, a sacrifice of a living being." That does sound black and white to me.
And good point, but it still is dangerous. I do remembering in the Charter for Health Care Workers, a person "does not have the right to harm themselves, since this degrades the human dignity". Just a thought...
-We're just exchanging thoughts. This is fun! /\./\
Kind of amazing what is allowed and isn't anymore.
This country seems to be trying to get rid of every thing that involves God, but at the same time embrace everything that he is against.
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