Religious stuff

[owl]

The French want to pass a law banning religious symbols (headscarves, kippas, and 'large Christian crosses', whatever that means) from being worn in schools 'to protect the secular nature of the state'.

The world has gone mad.

My sister told me tonight that 'did you know the Pope has absolved the Jews for the death of Jesus?' Well, isn't that nice of him. I feel like apologising for the people that say they share my religion. OTOH, I could just disown them. What's the point in claiming to be a Christian if you forget the bits about love and mercy and compassion?

Comments

[fernwithy.livejournal.com]

I'd be against any state interference with religion (which is the parents' provence at that age), barring issues that actually involve physical or mental abuse of the child. If the child came to a teacher and said, "I hate wearing a burka" (which isn't required, as I understand it, of young girls, only post-pubescent ones), then I would take up the child's right to protest against the parental edict, but that's the child's right, not the state's. The state has no business making a ruling like that.