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Originally Posted by photon
Lines like this are subjective, and ultimately the closer you get to a line the harder it is to determine if something is on one side or another.
But the line is:
"If a message can be reasonably interpreted by a person as negative towards another person's beliefs..."
Reasonable people in this thread interpret as negative towards another person's beliefs, as did the people making the decision. I don't see how it isn't reasonable to interpret it that way.
I think adding "My" to the front is useful:
"My life is wasted without Jesus", clearly talking about one's own life
"Life is wasted without Jesus", what is being wasted? Life. All life because there's no qualifier, saying it means any subset of life without a qualifier is adding meaning where none is written. So all life without Jesus, meaning all life that isn't a Christian life (because life with Jesus is by definition Christian).
Sure. It's a school, if they want to wear shirts that belittle others they can do it after school.
This is why I like uniforms.
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I will agree with most of this. I don't think it is unreasonable to interpret it as not being about other religions and just being about Christianity. It can go both ways. When I saw the headline I was expecting it to be something attacking other religions or other people, this is rather mild. But if that is the way the school wants to go about their business then I can accept and respect that. As long as they remain consistent.
If some kid is wearing their Stamps shirt (I know this is in Nova Scotia so this isn't likely) and it says 'Riders Suck' on it then I would expect them to take similar steps with that kid as it could be seen as offensive to Rider fans.