My Rant on the Topic of God in Schools (Written October 2008)

OK, first of all, I really could have cared less about the group “Put God Back in Our Schools” but then my little sister joined and I realized I had to say something.

 First of all, Christians must understand they are not the only religion in the world. I know that the normal reply I would get to that is “But we follow the true religion... etc.” For one thing, there is no way for anyone of any religion to say that they follow the “true” religion. All Christians may say any other faith is false and that any other god is false. If that’s your belief that’s fine, but you cannot prove it. No matter how many scriptures you quote or any stories you tell cannot prove that Christianity or any other religion for that matter is true. It is simply a matter of the heart and a matter of faith. People around the world have just as much faith in different god’s as a Christian in the USA would have. Just as many miracles have been performed through other religions as have been done through Christianity. 

My point is that it’s fine if you want to put God back into schools but it cannot be only the Christian god. If you place the Ten Commandments in front of a school, then why not a couple quotations from the Baghavad Gita, or the Quran? You have to see it from the point of view of the other 5 billion people in the world. If you were Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or any other number of religions and you went to school everyday with a  thousand other people telling you that every belief you had were wrong and you were going to hell simply because you were different how would that feel. Maybe to put it in a better perspective, if you, as a Christian moved to another area where there were primarily Muslim or Jewish students  and you went to school and everyone laughed at you because you were different and told you were wrong. How would that feel?

I know most Christians believe that you must “save” the heathen masses from fire and brimstone but to tell you the truth most of the rest of the world just doesn’t care or believes that they are already saved and what right do you have to tell people who follow there religion perhaps more faithfully than most Christians that they are going to hell because of what they believe in?

One of my biggest issues is that most Christians (I’m not saying all just most) have no idea about any of the other religions, philosophies, or ideas in the world. If you’re working so hard to convert someone at least no a little about the other person’s religion so you don’t look like another “dumb American” in front of the world.  

I know that only of a couple of years ago I might’ve agreed with you but since then I have seen the rest of the world and have thought hard about what is right and what is wrong and forcing your religion onto children that may be of different faiths by putting up ten commandments or even having a Christian prayer is wrong for the minority of students of different faiths.  This creates inequalities among people and that invariably is wrong.  So if you want to put God back into the school system, that’s fine with me. Just don’t put only a Christian God. Legally you’d have to cater to any other religion that was also present at that school anyway, so just a warning, be prepared to put up a lot of different monuments and not just the Ten Commandments. 

I’m sure I’m going to get a ton of hate mail after I post this. Just please be mature adults and remember that you aren’t the only people in the world.   

Disclaimer: I know I didn’t address the issues of Atheistic beliefs in schools but that is a whole other post.