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If you believe in God, can your God be removed? Removed from schools? Churches? Anything?
I also think no one should be forced to observe or pray to any god. But I also think that putting something like the ten commandments on a school wall does not force anyone to do anything.
SalamIf you believe in God, can your God be removed? Removed from schools? Churches? Anything?
I think children shoud be exposed to many different ideas and cultures. Reading a verse from the Bible or Quran or Gita will expand their views. This is good. Aclosed mind that is only exposed to one idea is like a bird in a cage. It cannot reach its full potential.Which one?
I suppose you could take a specific god concept out of something. But the divine as I see it is in everything(though to varying degrees)... you can't remove it entirely.
No, it doesn't force anyone to do anything. But constantly exposing someone(especially children) to an idea forces it into their conscious, and they take that into their personal culture, for good or ill. Some parents don't want their kids exposed to other religions in such a way that it negates their own.
Would you be okay with verses from the Gita or Quran plastered on the walls of your child's school, provided the child wasn't forced to follow what they laid out?
I think children shoud be exposed to many different ideas and cultures. Reading a verse from the Bible or Quran or Gita will expand their views. This is good. Aclosed mind that is only exposed to one idea is like a bird in a cage. It cannot reach its full potential.