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Originally Posted by djplong
There's a big difference between being an adult and being able to respectfully ignore a prayer versus being a child and having it constantly done every day.
Those of you who hate the idea of certain things being taught in the schools - why is it that so many feel it's ok to do that when it's "religion"?
For what it's worth, a high school I went to in NH seemed to have the perfect compromise - every morning they had a "moment for silent meditation" - you could make of it what you wanted.
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I'm not advocating for prayer in public schools. I do however, think it is SICK that schools have been bullied with political correctness and "separation of church and state", into not even being able to say "Christmas Break" or "Christmas Vacation". Now it's "Winter break" or whatever, as the goal of the "separation of church and state" crowd is changing the words to eventually change the concepts they convey.
"....Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments.
She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.....
...Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.'
The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals.
The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin.
The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees.
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