The first article discusses the aspect of religion and a “moment of silence” in public schools. Students were required to observe a time of silence, but an Illinois judge ruled against this law already in place. Ok..ever since I have been in school I can always remember the few seconds we observed for a moment of silence, but I have never once had any teacher tell me what I had to do in those few seconds. Of course, as a christian, yes I have always used the moment of silence as a time a prayer for the beginning of my day. I just do not understand why some money hungry family had to go to court complaining that the moment of silence was forcing religion his daughter. It honestly angers me that people are trying to take God out of everything thing that exists. If it wasn’t for God, You would not be here....
Continuing on through the first article, we find a court case discussing textbook issues concerning evolution and creationism. Although, at this point there has been no re-write. My thoughts on this section is if teachers have to teach evolution, then they should be able to teach creationism. There are many more teachers that believe in creationism then do evolution. Teachers need to keep a conservative view. It does not matter which one they believe in and no student needs to be ridiculed for their beliefs as well. Everyone is an individual and deserves to create their own belief.
The second article discusses the aspect of the flag being thought of as another form of idolatry. According to two Jehovah Witness Children, they refused to salute and say the pledge allegiance to the American flag due to this reason. This case was taken to court favored on the side of the children. In my personal opinion, I believe people can just take things too far. As a christian myself, I never once considered the flag as another idol. I feel it is my duty to my country to show my patriotism. After all, look at what the men and women do for me without even knowing my name!
The views in both articles are different in that one case is concerned about prayer and the other case is concerned about idolatry. The articles compare because they are both about religion in the school system. It amazes me to see the religion issues started as early as 1935. Ever since we decided to take God out of our school, we started to see problems. Now that we are starting to take God out of our government and public standings, we will continue to see a rise in problems.
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