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Humor: Pagans in Junoir High |
Posted by
fallenangel101 on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:21 AM PST
ok--im in the 8th grade and hav been a pagan for about 1 year--tho i hav been studying the reliogion fro over 3. the other day i went to school wearing a pentagram neclace and belt buckle. i hav only 1 friend who is a pagan at my school. wen the teachers started getting bitchy about our cloths and saying that wicca is not a religion, we stood up for ourselves and spoke our minds saying that if they allow christianity in school---then they hav to allow all religions.
neither of our parents know that we r pagans due to the fact that they also think of it as a cult or that it is not a religion. we ended up with detention and had no one on our side to help us with a patition that we started stating that if one religion is allowed--then so should others..we got 1 signature. we stil hav not found a way to make people realize that we r not a cult and that we just want to live in peace. some1 plz help us!!
(from Ms. Bitch A.K.A. callei)
kids will be kids and this is, sadly, proof of public education. I have not corrected, altered or edited this this plum at all. and boy do i look forward to the comments!
oh and hi everyone! I'll get my messenger set up again soon, no really i will...
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Re: Pagans in Junoir High
by callei on Jan 17, 2006 - 07:40 AM
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one thing you can try, if you are serious about freedom of religion and all that, is to go to your local wicca/pagen/witchcraft/spooky store and ask them about any meetings or groups that accept kids and then go to those meetings and ask those people for help and support.
think supernaturally, act locally.
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Re: Pagans in Junoir High
by firefly7 on Jan 17, 2006 - 12:11 PM
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Well... Not to be rude, but... Did you have the "patition" you sent around proofread? You will generally get more respect to your cause if you seem to know what you're talking about; tho tahts juz my opininion.
I feel for your cause, and I think it's terrible that you feel discriminated against. Once you get into high school things should look up.
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Film Ju-Noir
by Monolycus on Jan 18, 2006 - 03:41 PM
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If it weren't for the other egregious typos in this post, I would have assumed that "ju-noir high" was a sophisticated goth joke. But then, I also like to believe that reality television is the latest expression of dadaism and something of an intellectual put-on, so there we are.
As for the premise (if you listen closely, you might just be able to make out the sound of Mono taking a deep sigh and shaking his head in an expression that falls somewhere between pity and disgust)...
You need to streamline more than your spelling here. Your argument needs to be cleaned up as well. Yes, Wicca is a religion that is recognised by the US armed forces (see: www.apologeticsindex.org/w02.html for resources), but not by the President of the United States (see: http://www.religioustolerance.org/boy_arm2.htm for a reference to this statement). Paganism, on the other hand, is not a religion. It is a descriptor. I can say that I am a gentile or a heathen, and it tells you what I am NOT, but not what I am. Keep your references consistent.
The assumption that "...if they allow christianity in school---then they hav (sic) to allow all religions" is untrue. State and federal law does not HAVE to allow for the recognition or accomodation of anyone. Welcome to the world. And, strictly speaking, Christianity is NOT allowed free expression in public schools under federal law as this would be a violation of the principle of the separation of church and state as it has been interpreted in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state for an overview of this principle and how it has been applied).
It is neither legal nor desirable that we should allow free expression of all religions in public schools (see: http://www.venganza.org/ This is the homepage for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; a reductio ad absurdum of what you are proposing). If you are more concerned with expressing your religious convictions than getting an education, I would recommend that you get out of public school altogether and join a private school where your beliefs take precedence... except for the fact that you stated that you did not wish to belong to a cult.
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