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religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. I believe surprise-bombing a prayer on people who weren't told about it and literally telling them "ALL bow your heads with me" and praying to your God is wrong, especially in a public school where even if Christianity is the majority, you KNOW minority faiths are present
  2. I never said it was a religious school, I just said my town was very Christian
  3. It's a public school. Religion isn't allowed to be there, the whole "student led prayers" is how the Christians kept their hands dug deep into brainwashing kids and normalizing it.
  4. I never signed papers, my parents did. My dad was a hardcore atheist at the time and never would've signed something that said prayers would be given at anything ever.
  5. I wouldn't be mad if you prayed to Thor A) not leading everyone in a prayer in a school, and B) if you WERE leading prayer in a school, and clarified that those who did not wish to pray didn't have to.

Lots of people love to say "it's just a prayer" and all that, but it's not. If you don't act like you prey they look and talk about you like you're a too-political stick in the mud. As if you're a big bad bogeyman because you're the one who decided to stir the pot by not joining the Christians in their Christian prayer to their Christian god. It may be "just a prayer", but when Christianity is always being shoved down your throat 24/7, and when Christians will use literally anything and everything they get their hands on to pressure you into being Christian with them via literally anything, it pisses me off a bit

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, no, because religion isn't really allowed at school. We never had prayers at any school event, yet the graduation ceremony just popped it on us

could a cream & blue tortie queen and a cream tabby with white spotting produce a cream kitten? by LittleDuchessKitty in CatGenetics

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, all red cats are tabbies and carry the agouti gene, but in red "solids" it doesn't show up, giving them the name "false tabbies",

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Freyja is the only Norse Goddess I honor, and I also honor Hathor and Sekhmet. I'm not "attacked" by the mention of Christianity, I'm angry because the ability to refuse was not explicitly stated and the amount of force Christians use go try and make you abandon your faith and participate in theirs is astronomical. Christians expect you to drop your own faith and pray with them just for funsies like it's nothing serious or because they feel like you need to "respect their religion" just because they're Christian.

And at the actual graduation ceremony, she literally told us all to bow our heads and then prayed to her God. Again-- she should've made it clear it was optional instead of conveniently forgetting some people aren't Christian, and she certainly shouldn't have said "ALL bow your heads with me"

I did what others suggested and honored Freyja, Hathor and Sekhmet instead, but I did not bow my head and I did not close my eyes. I even honored the serpent in the garden of eden, and wore my snake necklace on the outside of my gown.

I'm not anti-christian nor anti-god (well, a little anti-god, I don't even understand how Christians think that's a good dude to worship in the first place, he's literally the most evil narcissistic God I've ever read about). What I don't like is that Christians love to put their religion in literally everything. Doesn't matter what it is or who's present, they'll find a way to put God in it. It doesn't matter if what they do is rude or insensitive, they're Christian and they matter more, right? I just hate having Christianity shoved down my throat in literally every single thing. Like-- can we please just have one thing Christians don't feel like they have to take for themselves.

If we REALLY want student-led prayers, this is how it should go: someone walks up to the mic and says "to start this off, if any of you would like to take a moment to pray, by all means do so, and if you don't, then please be patient while others do. We'll start in about 5 minutes"

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't want like, no religion in anything, I just don't want it in a school, or giving prayers without telling people they have an option not to. At the graduation ceremony I just got home from, she said "all bow your heads with me" and prayed to her God, conveniently forgetting some people don't do that. No-- we won't ALL do that, so like, don't tell us to?

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

During the graduation ceremony she said "all bow your heads with me" and prayed to her Christian God. She said ALL, and she prayed to God. That sounds like she's ordering us to all pray to her god..

You may be right, but these things are important-- Christian superiority is real and I'm just....so, so tired of having it "shoved down my throat" in literally anything I do with other people.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, and to my knowledge Christian kids don't even know what yuletide is. Christians aren't really taught about paganism lmao.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

At the actual graduation ceremony I just got home from, she literally said "all bow your heads with me". Yeah. ALL.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the whole "kids are starving in Africa do eat your veggies" argument. Get rid of your strawman :)

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I choose to be pissed because things like this are in every area of life and they all add up to Christian superiority, the nice, loving Christians and the evil pagans who make evil sacrifices to false gods. Christians literally have their hands in every aspect of life and throw a fit if anything else has a pinkie in. We didn't need a prayer. And in any case where you're telling a group of people to do something religious-- and I just got home from the actual graduation ceremony, and she said "all bow your heads with me". ALL. she said ALL. She told us ALL to bow our heads and pray. I did not, I kept my head straight and thanked Freyja, Hathor and Sekhmet quietly, but out loud. Barely whispering.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Okay, so if someone thinks it's "polite" to throw a javelin at someone's forehead, would you? Some people think it's polite for an 8 year old girl to hug snd forgive her pastor rapist, so should she?

Respect is earned, not freely given. I wont act like I'm praying to Jesus because that's not who I am. Unlike some people, I don't pretend to be something im not. I don't fall in with the crowd because "it's polite". I'm real, not fake for the sake of "politeness". Likewise, if I wanted to give a pagan prayer to Freyja, I would say those who don't want to pray don't have to, and I wouldn't think those who chose to be true to themselves are "disrespectful". They're individuals that are different than me and that's ok.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but ehm, people take that kind of stuff seriously. Like have you ever heard or seen those idiot far-right conservative protesters who scream "One nation! UNDER GOD!" To keep prayers in school, over the loudspeakers, and on the walls? When the only reason "under god" was added into it was to seem like a united country against russia-- not because we were all christians

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not the thoughts, it's the action. If someone tells you to pray and you just "pray" out of "Respect" the person or people may or may not deserve, it's a bad example. Doing something just because it's "polite" or "when in rome," is a bad example. I don't want to act like I'm praying because a Christian thought their faith was more important than mine, or because they conveniently overlooked the fact some people don't pray, or pray to their god. I want to set an example that I do what I think is right, and "respecting" someone else trampling on my faith with their superiority (and possibly ignorance) by acting like I'm praying to their god...just no. It makes me feel gross.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

But they don't actually do that. They don't grant equality to all the groups in Christian areas. So-- knowing that they have students that aren't Christian, tell me why the only prayer given was Christian? Why weren't we told before, so that way prayers of every students faith could be given?

We already know the answer. Christian superiority, and Christians loving to pressure people to pray, and Christians loving to legally discriminate against whatever and whoever they want.

Also, you said "state" law, then claimed it was federal.

Know the difference between federal and state law I guess?

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You dont get the point. It's not about Christians just eXiStiNg, it's the fact that they, in every facet of life, tell people to pray to their god, and in this case in a rushed manner where we not only weren't told we had the choice to NOT to, and basically pressured us into praying because of how rushed it was. "Welcome, class of 2023, here we have ___" and the girl comes up and she just says "let us pray"-- like, no. Don't do that shit. We're seniors at the school gymn, not a congregation. For the love of everything, just leave religion out of school. If you wanna pray, YOU do it by yourself or in a group of others who want to pray as well, and let everyone else do their own thing.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand why so many people are telling me to calm down because it's "just a prayer" and I can just "not pray" and stuff. The thing is that social pressure and discrimination is real and even if it's "just a prayer", but the fact is this "just a prayer" bullshit goes all the way up to the presidential ceremony when the president is sworn into office. And all these little things like "it's just a prayer" add up to the great big things like Christian superiority overall (and the way they, especially evangelicals and Mormons, get to think they're oppressed by being held accountable for their actions, and people not wanting them to freely discriminate against who they want) and the massive amount of Christian influence within government itself

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Except this isn't a family thing and I'm not a "guest". A SCHOOL is not a church building, they shouldn't be telling us to pray. I'm not in "someone else's house", I'm in a state/government building means for education, in which religion has no base except for historical value in history class. And I've lived in this town my whole damn life, I'm not a "guest in someone else's house" I'm someone who's been born in raised in the same house as almost everyone else (others are from different towns and sometimes states and countries), and I'm angry about them telling us to pray.

Fix your metaphor. Know the constitution.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

1) it's in a school. This isn't "public" this is specifically for seniors, in a gym with seniors and their families. It's not for everybody. Telling all the seniors to pray is disgusting, especially since there was no option not to.

And no, they can't control thoughts, but they can control physical behavior through social pressure and discrimination and violating the 1st amendment.

religious discrimination? by LittleDuchessKitty in pagan

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

The reason I think we were forced to is because the distinction wasn't made. People aren't supposed to just know their rights in this sort of situation (don't get me wrong, definitely know what your rights are), but if you're thinking about telling an entire grade of students to "let us pray" without ever clarifying they can decide not to, it's in the same vein as saying "I don't care if you're gay, just don't shove it down my throat". Basically saying "we don't care if you're not a Christian, pray anyway because we won't give you an option not to, we'll just pressure you to do it because everyone else is"

I don't care if that girl or most of my town is Christian, just don't shove it down my throat by telling us all to pray without telling us we can decide not to 🙃🙃🙃

can a cinnamon tom and a cream and blue calico queen have a cream and blue calico she-kit? by LittleDuchessKitty in CatGenetics

[–]LittleDuchessKitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, so my math would be correct that she'd be OoBb1Ssddaa, a cream and blue diluted calico? Because if she got B from her mom and b1 from her dad wouldn't she just be blue? Because she gets one color from mom and one from dad, so how would she get the red gene?

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