Space Jams Madness
Nov/090
Space Jams Madness
Why are some (not all) Christians so upset at having to remove Christian symbols from public spaces?
Imagine our public spaces jam-packed with hundreds of religious symbols from all the various religions of all our citizens..it would be madness, that is the other option.
In a secular society freedom of religion is a right for all citizens as is freedom from religion for those citizens who don't follow a religion, we can't all have our religious symbols in court houses and schools and public squares so let's have none and let's stop the whingeing about being persecuted when we are asked to remove them. Have them at home and in our places of worship and other private spaces where they belong...isn't that just very reasonable and fair?
moreacidthan alkaline, in Britain cigarette advertising has been very much curtailed because of the health dangers, religious advertising synbols similarly need to be curtailed, it doesn't inspire confidence in a muslim who appears in a court adorned with christian sybolism, it suggests religious bias..just as an example.
There was such a controversy in my country portugal mostly catholic. There was nearly a civil war among those who supported keeping the crucifixes on school room walls, and the other who wanted them out.
They would be out, as for me, at least in schools where there are students with other creeds.
In the schools of larger cities there is a very mixed population of students, ethnically speaking (in some schools there are immigrants or children of immigrants from africa - cabo verde, angola, st. tomé, mozambique - asia - goa, east timor, china - america - brazil - europe - romania, moldova, ukrania - and right now it's a big culture pool.
Some argue that the roots of our civilization are christian. We even have christian symbology in our flag. But the state is supposedly secular and there is freedom of religion choice by constitution.
Finally the ministery of education said (to please everybody) that the schools that still carried symbols (which in fact were just the oldest) could keep them in case of no complaints from the students.
My opinion is, religion is for sunday school. Keep the symbols there.
P.S. have you heard about the controversy when the European Union was working on a Constitution? Many supported there should be a mention to the long-lived Christian tradition in Europe, others were against it.
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