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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
 Posted - 04/29/2002 : 20:38:59
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Pilfered from Infidels, but worth a repost:
(This may or may not have a kernel of truth, so get out your salt grains.)
As you know, we've been working real hard in our town to get prayer back in the schools. Finally, the school board approved a plan of teacher-led prayer with the children participating at their own option. Children not wishing to participate were to be allowed to stand out in the hallway during the prayer time. We hoped someone
would sue us so we could go all the way to the Supreme Court and get that old devil-inspired ruling reversed.
Naturally, we were all excited by the school board's action. As you know, our own little Billy (not so little, any more, though) is now in the second grade. Of course, Margaret and I explained to him no matter what the other kids did, he was going to stay in the classroom and participate.
After the first day of school, I asked him, "How did the prayer time go?"
"Fine."
"Did many kids go out into the hallway?"
"Two."
"Excellent. How did you like your teacher's prayer?"
"It was different, Dad. Real different from the way you pray."
"Oh? Like how?"
"She said, 'Hail, Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...'"
The next day I talked with the principal. I politely explained I wasn't prejudiced against Catholics but I would appreciate Billy being transferred to a non-Catholic teacher. The principal said it would be done right away.
At supper that evening I asked Billy to say the blessings. He slipped out of his chair, sat cross-legged on the floor, closed his eyes, raised his hands palms up and began to hum.
You'd better believe I was at the principal's office at eight o'clock the next morning. "Look," I said. "I don't really know much about these Transcendental Meditationists, but I would feel a lot more comfortable if you could move Billy to a room where the teacher practices and older, more established religion.'"
That afternoon I met Billy as soon as he walked in the door after school.
"I don't think you're going to like Mrs. Nakasone's prayer, either, Dad."
"Out with it."
"She kept calling God 'O Great Buddha...'"
The following morning I was waiting for the principal in the school parking lot. "Look, I don't want my son praying to the Eternal Spirit of whatever or to Buddha. I want him to have a teacher that prays in Jesus' name!"
"What about Bertha Smith?"
"Excellent."
I could hardly wait to hear about Mrs. Smith's prayer. I was standing on the front steps of the school when the final bell rang.
"Well?" I asked Billy as we walked towards the car.
"Okay."
"Okay what?"
"Mrs. Smith asked God to bless us and ended her prayer in Jesus' name, amen -- just like you."
I breathed a sigh of relief. "Now we're getting some place."
"She even taught us a verse of scripture about prayer," said Billy.
I beamed. "Wonderful. What was the verse?"
"Let's see..." he mused for a moment. " 'And behold, they began to pray; and they did pray unto Jesus, calling him their Lord and their God.'"
We had reached the car. "Fantastic," I said, reaching for the door handle. Then I paused. I couldn't place the scripture. "Billy, did Mrs. Smith say what book that verse was from?"
"Third Nephi, chapter 19, verse 18."
"Third what?"
"Nephi," he said, "It's in the Book of Mormon."
The school board doesn't meet for a month. I've given Billy very definite instructions that at prayer time each day he's to go out into the hallway. I plan to be at that board meeting. If they don't do something about this situation, I'll sue. I'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if I have to. I don't need the schools or anybody else teaching my son about religion. We can take care of that ourselves at home and at church, thank you very much!
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
-D. Hume
Edited by - PhDreamer on 04/29/2002 20:40:49
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 04/30/2002 : 03:10:22 [Permalink]
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This is a wonderful piece of satire. Thanks for thr read!
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 05:31:41 [Permalink]
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ROTFLMAO
Oh, stop it! You're making me cough!
ROTFLOL
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Wiley
Skeptic Friend
68 Posts |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 17:05:40 [Permalink]
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Excellent. I love it. That's exactly why there should not be prayer in school. Hee hee.
"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in school."
-Peppermint Patty
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 20:59:55 [Permalink]
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This is what Superintendent Chamers said when he heard 'acting' principal Flanders saying a prayer over the loud speaker at Springfield Elementary school.
''A prayer! A prayer, is that a prayer?''
''God has no place within these (school) walls, just as facts have no place in organized religion''
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*Carabao forever.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon |
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