The Battle Will Rage On Forever.

I was sitting in Psychology class today and we were discussing bullying. This is a very sensitive topics these days with all the children committing suicide or running up in schools with weapons. We were all just talking about what makes a bully tick. Is it a broken home, abusive parents, were they bullied at a younger age, is there a mental issue, or do they just take pleasure in hurting someone else, physically and/or emotionally? This is a topic I think should be covered but that isn’t going to be in this article.

One of my classmates brought up the fact that things have gotten worse in school since they took the bibles out of schools. Now let me be perfectly clear on this, I don’t care what type of religion you practice. I don’t care if you have a lack of religion. You can practice and worship whatever you want. That is part of the freedom America affords you. That is why men and women die on the front lines every day. They die so that you can have the freedom to do whatever the hell you want at any time.

Now on to what I do care about. I care about the freedom to not have to be subjected to your religion if I don’t want to. I care about not turning the morning announcements into a situation that is going to make even one person feel uncomfortable. If you want to pray in school then I say fine. If you want to read a bible verse in school, fine. However, if you are going to read from one religious book then you should read from a book from every religion that has a member of that religion in your school.

Is it too much to ask that people respect others enough not to shove their religion or beliefs down someone else throat? A prime example of what pisses me off about this stuff is this right here. A local school wanted to have a prayer session before every sporting event. Alright cool, if no one complains about it then feel free. Well this is where the issue comes in folks. Someone felt uncomfortable that they were being subjected to something that they didn’t believe in and they complained. Was it a valid complaint? Hell I don’t know. That information never got released. I don’t know if they were being an asshole or if they really were offended because they didn’t believe in prayer or they had a different religion than what was being thrown around at this present time.

Well as all the smoke cleared around this complaint the school decided not to have prayer over the PA system and have a silent prayer on the track around the field. You would think that was a compromise right? Oh hell no it wasn’t. Someone at the event thought it would be a good idea to call the news and bring attention to the fact they were having prayer before the game and it was threatened by ONE person who didn’t want it to happen. Now I went to this school when I was in high school. This is an area driven on the idea of community. This is an area where people used to love each other no matter what they did. This is an area that used to lift people up when they felt down or were facing a difficult situation. This is an area I used to be proud to call home. Now I am disappointed to see this once great community reduced to making such a spectacle of this situation.

I said all of that to say this. Has it really gotten that bad in today’s society that we have to make people feel like an outcast because they don’t believe the same thing we do? Do we have to make people feel less than just because they don’t live by the same moral code? People say this nation was based on Christianity and call America a Christian nation. Is this how the good book says people should act? I don’t do a lot of reading through the bible these days but I do know this, God never turned anyone away. Hell when Jesus was hanging on the cross he was forgiving two criminals that hung beside him. People say they have Christian principles and some actually do. I find that most are just judgmental people who find happiness in making others feel like shit. If you are going to claim to be something then abide by the principles it is based on. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite. I know this one jumped a little all over the place but I had to get this one off my chest.