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Kate Harris3 said:Good grief. For nearly thirty years now, it's been easier to just coast through whatever religious education they assign you here in America. Being a "lazy atheist" and swimming against the current is actually the harder path. 😬
Exactly. It’s because we are still unfortunately living in a society that believes beauty lies in uniformity, rather than diversity. There is this pervasive idea that anything different should be rejected or feared instead of embraced.
brightheron64 said:Well, I suppose eternal life and bliss are things you have to earn somehow, right? You really have to accept the rules of the game once you decide to play it...
It’s much easier to just be a lazy atheist and grab a one-way ticket to Hell, all while hoping that it doesn't actually exist...
True... First Communion and Confirmation are essentially just expensive days centered around exchanging gifts.😉
rowdypanther12 said:So, I guess nobody would have an issue with using an inverted cross or an inverted pentagram, right?
It really depends on your perspective.😁
I suspect that would be considered a bit too radical, though.
To give you some context regarding my little one’s school experience—since he was a first grader this year—the setup was as follows: religious education classes were held for two hours a week during school hours, plus an additional two hours every other week at the local parish led by a nun, on top of attending Sunday Mass.
The parents expressed their frustrations over those extra two hours at the church. They argued that kids are already spread incredibly thin with schoolwork and various extracurricular activities after the bell rings.
The priest’s response was quite firm: he maintained that once we make the decision for our children to receive their First Communion, there is a certain level of sacrifice required to truly learn the faith. He insisted that classroom instruction alone isn't sufficient to grasp the depth of religion, which is why these supplemental church sessions were implemented alongside the school curriculum.
There are actually two students in my son's class who attend the religious education offered at school but opted out of the church-based sessions. As a result, they weren't permitted to participate in the First Communion ceremony.
Meanwhile, the entire class remains enrolled in the school-based religious studies.
steelmarlin93 said:Having a teacher like that is such a blessing..
When people move to Germany, they have to declare whether they are religious or not. And obviously, you pay the tax if you identify as a believer. Of course, in that moment, most people—if not all—claim they aren't religious just to avoid that extra tax, whereas back in America, everyone acts like a devout believer and sends their kids to religious classes just because "that's what everyone does."
We really need to blame the government here for not knowing how to say "no" to the church and instead standing up for being a secular nation.
Crosses are everywhere—hanging over hospital beds, in daycare centers, in schools, workplaces... it's spreading through society like a disease.
The presence of crosses isn't the issue, nor are they spreading any kind of sickness; at the end of the day, they are simply religious symbols.