On 09-30-05, JITENDER SAAN said to TIM RICHARDSON:

-> If a student does not `have' to submit to a school prayer, or saying
JS>anything -> about `God' while in school, and employees at a place of
JS>employment are being -> bombarded with religious material, or having
JS>religion `forced' on them...you -> can bet some judge somewhere in the

JS>system would put an immediate stop to it. One of my friends objected to
JS>being made to attend prayer in school. They made him anyway.

JS>He explained that he was an atheist. They made him anyway.

JS>He got a letter from him parents asking to be excused from religious
JS>activities. They made him anyway.

JS>His parents met with the school authorities and finally got told that no
JS>child would be excused. If you don't want your child to pray, leave,
JS>this school's management believes in Hinduism.

JS>Trouble is, there is no such school. And there is no home schooling in
JS>India.

JS>I had to undergo similar treatment. Forced religion. They assume that
JS>since you are 16 years old you probably don't know what you are doing.
JS>So they bid a fond 'fuck it' to your skepticism and force you to
JS>participate.


JS>I owe my atheism to people like these. If they hadn't tried
JS>to force me I probably would never have questioned their right to do so
JS>and furthermore the basis on which they assume they have any such right.


Proving once again that `atheists' are made, not born!


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