Creeva’s World 2.0

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It seems through some of my affil­i­a­tion that I am attached to that peo­ple feel the need to for­ward me chain let­ters.   Even if it was some­thing I believed in, I wouldn’t want a chain let­ter.  I would pre­fer to read your own thoughts.  It seems some­one sends me mails with a reli­gious bent to them.   Some of them rail against the sep­a­ra­tion of church and state, some­thing that even as a chris­t­ian I hold very dear (for some rea­son most Chris­tians don’t want it sep­a­rated since they naively believe for all eter­nity they will be the dom­i­nant reli­gion).   I’m more prag­matic.  I don’t think the dog­matic moral laws of each dif­fer­ent lit­tle chris­t­ian sect should be rep­re­sented.   I’ve had my imme­di­ate say.  Let’s look at the first chain let­ter in this new series.

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A 15 yr. Old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA:

New Pledge of Alle­giance (TOTALLY AWESOME) !

Since the Pledge of Alle­giance
And
The Lord’s Prayer
Are not allowed in most
Pub­lic schools any­more
Because the word ‘God’ is men­tioned.…
A kid in Ari­zona
Wrote the attached

NEW School prayer :

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!

Amen

If you aren’t ashamed to do this,
Please pass this on.
Jesus said,
’If you are ashamed of me,
I will be ashamed of you before my Father.’

Not ashamed. Pass this on..

Let’s go through this sec­tion by section:

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.

Well iron­i­cally we still have in god we trust on our money, what peo­ple don’t real­ize is that “God” on your money has been found legally to be an abstrac­tion and doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily refer to a Chris­t­ian Diety.   Reli­gious free­dom was one of hte pur­poses of this coun­try.  Once you start choos­ing an offi­cially sanc­tioned goven­er­ment reli­gion, or teach the tenets of said reli­gion you under­mine the pur­pose that we were taught in school on why the first set­tlers came here.  (Yes I know that story is not quite as sim­plis­tic or accu­rate as we were taught).

If Scrip­ture now the class recites,
It vio­lates the Bill of Rights.
And any­time my head I bow
Becomes a Fed­eral mat­ter now.

Iron­i­cally I don’t think we have thought police any­where — like every­thing else it’s a don’t ask don’t tell world any­more.  If your flaunt­ing any­thing that’s against school rules how­ever you will be pun­ished.   There have been exteremly few fed­eral cases over this so I’m not quite sure it would really be a fed­eral matter.

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.

What’s wrong with dif­fer­ent col­ored hairs at all?  Mine has been nat­ural.  Mine has been jet black.  Mine has been pur­ple.  Mine has been blue.  There is noth­ing wrong with this.  My sis­ter how­ever almost got expelled from school because she dyed her hair bright red (not nat­ural red).   I almost went and fought this at the school board, but she backed down (I’m sure with my mother’s coach­ing of not want­ing to look bad to the neigh­bors).   We’ve lost the free­dom of per­sonal expres­sion in schools and it’s not just prayers.  Besides if you really need to pray out loud I find you creepy.  Your like the guy at the video game store who picks up every title and reads the descrip­tion out loud since they seem to lack any inner monologue.

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.

Um, yes please be silent.  I pray, but I find you audi­ble prayers creepy.  “Dear God please make my gen­i­tal warts go away” — come on that would just be extremely creepy.   That’s the kind of thing I know some peo­ple pray for.  We want to pre­tend that they are all pray­ing that the sick get bet­ter or the orphan­age finds a sav­ior donor so it can stay open.  It isn’t.

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.

I’m fairly sure that guns were out­lawed in most schools before the bible.  Granted I know some rural schools were teh kids could check in their gun when they arrive because they were hunt­ing before school.   Do we really have to point out on how many lev­els that is wrong.   We’ll stick with just the hygiene issues.

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.

I don’t see any­thing wrong with this — I have great grand­par­ents that were prob­a­bly mar­ried younger then some­one who is the prom king or queen.   You can always judge some­one, but when you have a holier then thou atti­tude it just doesn’t fly.

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.

Hmmmm, you com­plain about preg­nant senior queens and unwed fathers, but rail against birth con­trol — I won’t point out the irony.

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!

I’ve gone to a pri­vate school and I’ve gone to a pub­lic school — let me tell you the Chris­t­ian schools still have the same issues with the ten com­mand­ments as part of the cur­ricu­lum as pub­lic schools have without.

I’m not alone — some­one else railed against this with their own poem — read it here.