In class this week we talked about
religious symbols and how some people are offended by other people’s symbols of
their religion. I just see it as they do not want to see or hear anything about
that religion. Everybody has their own faith, beliefs, and religion and I think
that they should be able to express this. Just because someone is expressing
their beliefs, that does not mean that people have to listen. This is linked to
in groups and out groups. If it is your religion that they are expressing it does
not matter, but when it is a different religion it does matter. One of my experiences
that stick out is when my high school class wanted to have someone come in and
pray at our graduation ceremony. Nobody really cared what type of Christian,
but just somebody to send us off into the world with God watching over us. The
school board said that we could not bring somebody in to pray because of the
laws of religion in school. This was interesting because the whole class was
fine with this and had no problems, but they did not want to offend anybody. My class decided to have one of us say a
prayer on graduation day.
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