Steve Re: Evil school principal in Athens, Georgia, with buttocks in the stocks!
The following is a copy of a prayer that Principal Tommy Craft read over the intercom to students last week before the Thanksgiving break:
'The New School Prayer'
The following is a copy of the prayer, provided by Principal Tommy Craft, that he read over the intercom to students last week.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the "unwed daddy," our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot, my soul please take!
2 comments:
I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm a semi-Deist Lutheran with Objectivist tendencies. That means that I believe in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the efficacy of prayer, but I'm not too impressed with the vagaries of Biblical interpretation, though I believe that the Bible is more worthy of respect than any other holy book. I'm kind of like the group of Quakers that Thomas Paine talks about in The Age of Reason, though to call the Bible a "dead letter" is too strong a term. I respect and love the Bible. It can't be ignored. (Believe me, I've tried.)
I'm troubled that my Objectivist brethren would object to this (what you're posting about). I'd go with a literal understanding of "Congress shall pass no law respecting... nor prohibiting...."
That phrasing strikes me as breathtakingly wise. It respects human nature (though so many deny its existence--in the face of much experience) and it takes the battle out of the realm of arms into the realm of persuasion, where it belongs.
I'll wait this time to see if my comment is revived when Blogger seems to have lost it.
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