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Thinking Homeschoolers are challenged to write about either National Spankout Day or the National Day of Prayer, by April 30th. I choose the National Day of Prayer to write about.
I used to think what's the big deal. In fact I kind of liked the idea that on one day everyone would come together and pray for our nation and each other.
Then I read Our Official National Day of Religious Supremacism by Frederick Clarkson .
Apparently I have been labouring under the delusion that on this one day we all set aside our differences and pray for one another. Nope all prayers are not created equal and instead of a day to heal it's a day to advance the religious rights agenda. It's time for this mockery to come to an end. Obviously what we need even more then a national day of prayer is a national day of common sense.
From Inclusive Prayer Day
The National Day of Prayer falls on May 1st this year, and in most parts of the country, there is a religious "litmus test" limiting participation to fundamentalist Christian evangelicals. Focus on the Family, the largest organization on the Christian Right, and groups allied with it control the occasion, calling themselves the National Day of Prayer Task Force and asserting that their website is the "National Day of Prayer Official Website."
Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves. They knew first hand the damage having a national religion and relegating those of differing beliefs to a second class status could do.
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National Day of Prayer for (Some) Christians Only
Thinking Homeschoolers are challenged to write about either National Spankout Day or the National Day of Prayer, by April 30th. I choose the National Day of Prayer to write about.
I used to think what's the big deal. In fact I kind of liked the idea that on one day everyone would come together and pray for our nation and each other.
Then I read Our Official National Day of Religious Supremacism by Frederick Clarkson .
Apparently I have been labouring under the delusion that on this one day we all set aside our differences and pray for one another. Nope all prayers are not created equal and instead of a day to heal it's a day to advance the religious rights agenda. It's time for this mockery to come to an end. Obviously what we need even more then a national day of prayer is a national day of common sense.
From Inclusive Prayer Day
The National Day of Prayer falls on May 1st this year, and in most parts of the country, there is a religious "litmus test" limiting participation to fundamentalist Christian evangelicals. Focus on the Family, the largest organization on the Christian Right, and groups allied with it control the occasion, calling themselves the National Day of Prayer Task Force and asserting that their website is the "National Day of Prayer Official Website."
Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves. They knew first hand the damage having a national religion and relegating those of differing beliefs to a second class status could do.
- The Voiceless Homeschoolers
A Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool Blogger wanted to know why Secular Homeschoolers seem to be so hostile toward them. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they presume to speak for ALL homeschoolers. They make inane comments like All...
- Homeschooled Matthew Evans Took The Top Prize Today In The Fifth Annual Reader’s Digest National Word Power Challenge,
Orlando, FL, May 15, 2007 – Matthew Evans, a seventh-grader from Albuquerque, New Mexico, took the top prize today in the fifth annual Reader’s Digest National Word Power Challenge, America’s premier vocabulary competition. The 12-year-old student,...
- Whose Prayer?
All those Fundamentalist Christians who insist we should put prayer back in public schools should consider this. "If the school allows the Baptist or Methodist church to send home a note to its students about Vacation Bible School, it also has to allow...
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Supposedly we have freedom of religion in America. From the behavior of some Fundamentalist Christian groups, and the uproar they are creating over Ellison's decision to forgo the Bible at his swearing in ceremony and use the Quran, you would never...
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