nfitz said:
Wait you say ... there are no school days on Saturdays and Sundays. I guess it's just a huge coincidence that there is no school day on the Jewish and Christian holy day!
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When the Mormons set up tyrannical dictatorships around the world based on their religion, and then use that religion as a justification for attacking other Western countries and citizens, THEN I'll agree that the Mormons are worse.
So funny you should mention that, sounds to me like the three Mormon wars - yup, three of them, on US soil no less - the Mormons have been at war with the United States in the past in part to attempt to create a theocratic state and defend their prophecies and values (they used to go into a midwestern town, take it over, expropriate businesses and property, issue fake money, kill dissenters and run the place like a religious theocracy before they'd get booted out by the state militia, only to pull the same thing a few hundred miles westward, wash rinse repeat.) One aspect of their theology holds that US society and institutions will crumble under the weight of their own sin, society will hang by a thread, Mormons will save society and uphold the US constitution, everyone will be so glad that they convert to the one true religion and the Mormons will eventually rule over the US (and the world) as a theocracy.
Not trying to pick on Mormons - they're one of my favs - but hmmmm not so dissimilar eh? Crusaders and Christians come to mind. You should check out some of the other religions too, you'll like what you find.
Ak2809 said:
Once you allow religious groups so use publicly owned facilities for prayers you've essentially created government funded places of worship.
We've been doing that for a long time - it's a long and common history. Lots of public schools serve as religious uses before and after school (and during, as we've seen.) In at least one school in Thornhill that I know of at the end of the day kids can go straight from class to Hebrew/Jewish classes without leaving the school. Churches and associated property pay reduced (or no) property taxes and many of them are built on donated lands so they are also indirectly subsidized by the state and therefore government funded places of worship.
Ak2809 said:
So we should accommodate christian students by allowing them to recite the Lord's prayer before classes?
We already do. Go check out the Christian Fellowship at any given school. In my experience, they congregated separately right after announcements.