Enough of the guilt-driven e-mails...please...

You know the whole song and dance, how someone with a lot of free time has somehow twisted words enough to create an association with something trivial like the directions on a can of shoe polish to some travesty such as taking prayer out of schools and how if you choose to delete said e-mail that informed you of this miraculous discovery that you will be destined to burn in hell. Today we got one using "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Egads, ain't nothing sacred?! (Yes, I intended to be punny.)

Enough already. I deleted these kinds of posts five years ago, even those that said a flaming arrow would pierce my heart within a week if I chose to trash their post not proclaiming the lack of school prayer the greatest tragedy this world has ever suffered, and I'm still here...although I am having some discomfort in my chest...oh well, it's probably something I ate.

Prayer in school definitely has its place, but if we put prayer back in like these people are demanding, whose prayer would we put back in? Every religious sect would be clamoring for their piece of the prayer pie, but I don't think there would be enough pie to go around and now you'd have bigger problems then before.

I say leave the three R's (Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmatic) in the classroom and leave the fourth R (religion or lack thereof) up to the parent/guardian to take care of at home or outside of school.
Before you get all high and mighty on me, you should know I'm all in favor of religious freedom. If you want to pray in school, more power to you. Just find a nice place for some reflection and inner dialogue with your higher power of choice and have at it. Bring a friend or two along if you'd like, as long as they're doing so at their own free will. Why does it have to be organized?

I do admit it has become somewhat amusing over the years to read some of these e-mail guilt trips. Those creating them have become so good at twisting words that if the whole religious propaganda thing doesn't work out they could always get a job making balloon animals. Because they've already gotten a head start on that line of work anyway by doing a good job of making an ass out of themselves.