God may be 'an awesome God' ... (Principles of religious education and public prayer)

[duponthumanite]

I respect my Christian friends on this one.

Indeed he is an awesome God ... but is he a communicating God?

The English curriculum of a Christian school would indeed teach such.

How does God communicate?

How do you understand Him?

And what exactly is Jesus's stance on public prayers?

This is why I'm wondering. Thank you, Religious Tolerance,

Comments

[moggymania]

They killed a *lot* of kids, probably of many religions and atheism as well -- and they did it largely because the mainstream kids had been severely bullying them for years. I think that singling out the mainstream folks as automatically being good/honest/brave/whatever is the exact kind of mistake that implies non-mainstream ones *aren't* just as likely (or more so) to have those qualities, and reinforces/justifies the harassment (often from those so-called "good" kids in my experience) that leads to such tragedies.

Thank you Moggy

[duponthumanite]

Dear Moggy:

Thank you for opening my mind to what had obviously been a blind spot.

I am sure I would not have intended to say what I did in fact say. I take responsibility for my words.

I think some of the mainstream kids went through hardships to choose what they did choose.

And so did the non-mainstream kids.

I should have said that everyone was good and brave for their own reasons that we may or may not understand.

I said Rachel was good and brave because she was Rachel not because she was mainstream or non-mainstream. And that is what I do believe, largely.

Have been reading about the Falun Gong. That is one big can of worms!

Adelaide