Anyone non-religious here? Please be nice!

[EweSheep]

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Persecution still around????????!!!!!!!!!! Haven't we learned from the Hitler/Holocast era? If the Muslim religion is what they want, they should have it...after all, we are one BIG melting pot of religion and non religion!

I think that she meant that some Christians in Muslim countries are persecuted.

Really not fair!

 

[deb1]

Have any of you heard of these two events?

Edmond North High School in Edmond, OK: Nearly 150 Christian students gathered in the school yard during the 2005 SYATP event. They wrote the names of non-Christian students on pieces of paper. Darrell Haley, a youth pastor at the local E-Church brought a portable wooden cross which was set up next to the school flagpole in an apparent violation of the principle of separation of church and state. The papers were then nailed to the cross. Darrell's daughter Rachel wrote, "God truly moved in such a mighty way. I just felt the presence of God and the Holy Spirit at our school today." Olga Cossey, an adult youth leader at Witcher Baptist Church, said that seeing the students nailing the symbolic pieces of paper on the cross was a very emotional moment for her. 12,13

Kaufman High School in Kaufman, TX: The Baptist Standard web site featured a photograph and short article describing students from the First Baptist Church of Kaufman at the 2001 SYATP event. They who were attaching pieces of paper containing prayer requests to a wooden cross. It is not clear how many pieces of paper contained names of non-Christians in the school. 14

I found this on religious tolerance

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_syatp.htm

The article makes the very valid point that contrary to what many believe, all students have the right to pray and express themselves but nailing other kids names to a wooden cross seems to be going to far.

 

[OccamsTazer]

At the very least, it's obnoxious and tasteless.

 

[redhen]

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And just plain CREEPY!

 

[EweSheep]

Shudders!

 

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Can you imagine how the children whose names were nailed on that cross felt?

I also wonder how they would have felt if another religion used their names in a ritual asking for their conversion to a different faith?

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

When my daughter was only 8 a classmates mother told her own child that it was her responsibility to save my daughter's soul and that if she failed to do so she herself would go to h***. Fortunately my daughter told me about the child's attempts to "save" her and how upset the other little girl was and I was able to report it to the school counselor. I reported it as a child abuse case. I don't think it was treated as one.

 

[deb1]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

When my daughter was only 8 a classmates mother told her own child that it was her responsibility to save my daughter's soul and that if she failed to do so she herself would go to h***. Fortunately my daughter told me about the child's attempts to "save" her and how upset the other little girl was and I was able to report it to the school counselor. I reported it as a child abuse case. I don't think it was treated as one.

How sad for that poor, little girl.

And I believe that it should have been treated as a child abuse case also.​

 

[Prettiest Frog]

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Here is the thing about these cases...

When these students were told to stop, they screamed that they were being persecuted.

 

[EweSheep]

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Here is the thing about these cases...

When these students were told to stop, they screamed that they were being persecuted.