The only time I have seen anyones bibles taken away is when a teacher was using it to teach from in a PUBLIC school, when a child was reading it instead of there textbook in a PUBLIC school
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In that article alone it mentions three seperate acts of the 'government' stepping on someone's personal belief, and demanding they not practice their religion in the way they want.
One, a teacher was told to keep his own personal Bible (from which he never taught from, merely had in public view) out of site. The teachers wwere permitted to keep personal effects on their desks. The Bible was simply that, a personal effect, much like a photograph or appointment book. But he was told he couldn't keep it where the students could see it.
The same man was told to remove the 10 commandments from a collage he had created and placed on his classroom wall. (Why have him remove the commandments? Why not ask him to also include Jewish prayers and Buhhdist teachings as well, in order to make the collage universal?) He did not require that the students learn the commandments, or even
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Once again you are comparing expressing ones religios beliefs to radical (and dangerous) group like the KKK. There is no comparison here.
Groups like the KKK are harmful because of the words they preach and the things they do. As long as people are speaking peacefully about their religion there is no harm.
Though you claim that the harm comes from feeling different. Well what about that teacher? You want him to be tollerent of the people in his classroom and not express his own religion becuase it may differ from his students. But what about the students tollerence of their teacher's personal beliefs? Should they not allow him the freedom of religion as well
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In that article alone it mentions three seperate acts of the 'government' stepping on someone's personal belief, and demanding they not practice their religion in the way they want.
One, a teacher was told to keep his own personal Bible (from which he never taught from, merely had in public view) out of site. The teachers wwere permitted to keep personal effects on their desks. The Bible was simply that, a personal effect, much like a photograph or appointment book. But he was told he couldn't keep it where the students could see it.
The same man was told to remove the 10 commandments from a collage he had created and placed on his classroom wall. (Why have him remove the commandments? Why not ask him to also include Jewish prayers and Buhhdist teachings as well, in order to make the collage universal?) He did not require that the students learn the commandments, or even ( ... )
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Groups like the KKK are harmful because of the words they preach and the things they do. As long as people are speaking peacefully about their religion there is no harm.
Though you claim that the harm comes from feeling different. Well what about that teacher? You want him to be tollerent of the people in his classroom and not express his own religion becuase it may differ from his students. But what about the students tollerence of their teacher's personal beliefs? Should they not allow him the freedom of religion as well ( ... )
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