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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Atheist boy hasn't been told he has to believe in God. If he would have just tolerated this 2 minute prayer and whatever long winded speeches are scheduled he would be graduating with the blessing of his family and peers. Instead he decided to make some noise and play victim.
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You keep protraying this kid as a victim. He isn't. He wanted to cause a stir and thumb his nose at his peers and the people in authority in his life:
Mission accomplished! Now he can deal with the fallout.
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God forbid that anybody should stand up for their principles. You are right, he has to deal with the fallout. He has to deal with the consequences and the consequences of how people are reacting to this are what proves that his principle has merits.
I remember when my high school graduation featured a pastor coming in to pray. Our teachers went through a big talk about how if we were offended by this issue, that we need not bow our heads or agree with anything being expressed. Even then, they were cognizant that this tradition was antiquated and infringed upon the rights of people of other faiths or no faith at all. Even then, when I was raised as a believer, I felt insidiously uncomfortable with the whole idea and for my peers. That was one of my moments of epiphany because I realized that this practice was wrong.
We should all tolerate things like that and go along with the will of masses and never stand up for our principles then? This is a perfect time for someone to bring up an allegory with tolerating Nazism in 1930s Germany but I don't want to fall prey to Godwin's Law, AKA Reductio ad Hitlerum.