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Originally Posted by photon
"without Jesus" means not having accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour thereby bridging the gap between a Holy God and a sinful man and saving you from eternal separation from God and eternal damnation. I'm not sure how that could be NOT religious.
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I think this is stretching it just a bit. As someone posted earlier, the school must be using the shirt to try and get this student to stop his evangelism. The shirt on its own isn't offensive. The word 'Jesus' is just a name. It's not a popular name in North America but it is a name that is used. What if a girl made a shirt that said "Life is wasted without Jesus" because her boyfriend's name is Jesus? I could probably see an argument against the shirt if it said Jesus Christ instead of just Jesus.
If a student had a shirt on that said "Life is wasted without Joseph", would that offend anyone? Probably not, but what if you knew he was Mormon and he was shoving his doctrine down your throat all the time and you knew he was referring to Joseph Smith? The person shoving his doctrine down your throat is offending you but his shirt isn't but why not use the shirt to try and get this guy to stop?
Having said that, it's obvious who this student is referring to because of his past but if the school is going to ban the shirt they have to judge the writing on the shirt alone and not the person who was wearing it.