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News for Youse: Religion versus free speech, let the battle commence!
You know, it's funny. We get wasted without Jesus all the time. But that's because he never pitches in with beer money.
What’s in a T-shirt? That’s the battle being fought at Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia, right now after officials suspended 19-year-old William Swinimer. Swinimer was suspended for five days after the principal repeatedly requested that the student stop wearing a T-shirt with the words “Life is wasted without Jesus” to school. Swinimer returned on Monday (May 7) wearing the same T-shirt only to have his father, John, remove him from class after the student was invited to take part in a discussion of freedom of expression and religious tolerance.
Now, we have a couple of questions, like, is he washing this oft-worn T-shirt or does he have a bunch of duplicates at home? Why is a 19-year-old still in high school? And if your 19-year-old is still in high school, do you maybe think you should be worrying about why that is instead of his sartorial choices?
But the real debate, of course, is about religious tolerance and freedom. Swinimer believes he’s being persecuted for his Christian beliefs, while Swinimer’s peers maintain that he was often proselytizing to them, despite frequent requests to stop. “It started with him preaching his religion to kids and then telling them to go to hell,” student council vice-president Katelyn Hiltz told the CBC. “A lot of kids don’t want to deal with this anymore.”
We don’t know which side of this debate we come down on. On one hand, you have the issue of freedom of speech, and we are all for that. (How else would we get our asinine opinions out there?) On the other, we’re tired of listening to Christians complaining about constantly being persecuted. White Christian dudes are kind of the ones in charge most everywhere in the world, and it’s been like that for centuries. (Helllllooooo, Pope!)
We are reminded of a quote from the esteemed Jon Stewart: “You’ve confused the war on your religion with not always getting everything you want. It’s called being part of society.” So there’s that.
What we do know is Taiwanese animation for the win.
We’re curious to see how Swinimer would respond to Nebraska’s Tyler Gold, who has legally changed his name to Tyrannosaurus Rex Joseph Gold. Would that be considered harassment by those who do not subscribe to the theory of evolution (it’s just a theory after all, not based on countless years of scholarship and the fact that we routinely dig dinosaurs out of the ground)? If a stupid yellow T-shirt can get accused of harassment, then this name better get a stern talking to as well.
Meanwhile, a Roanoke, Virginia, court is hearing a case about whether a school has the right to post the Ten Commandments. The case came about last year when an anonymous student at Narrows High School complained about a hallway display of the Commandments, claiming it violated the separation of church and state. The Attorneys for Liberty Counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union are currently duking it out in court, with the former arguing “It’s just a little history, yo!” and the latter saying, “Um, this is why we have a little thing called the Constitution.”
Anyone else feel that? I think we’ve entered a time portal and travelled back to 1965. Next thing you know, men will be claiming that women shouldn’t have the right to vote...
OH WAIT, THIS GUY THINKS THAT! If you’ve got 12 minutes today and a desire to get seriously angry, watch this video of Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson from March 2012, wherein he claims that the real problems with America stem from the fact that they let women vote.
We give up.
Follow Miranda Nelson on Twitter, where she’ll be weeping for the future of humanity.
You've got freedom of religion and the right to build an edifice to mouth your inanities in. Stop going around annoying the rest of us.
Miguel
Nonsense. The progressive left gave you the "rights" you think you enjoy today. Where do you think those rights came from - a conservative think tank?
If this young man had been better raised, he would know that the message on his t-shirt would be offensive to many. He either didn't know that, or didn't care (more likely, his parents didn't care).
Either way, I'm glad that the school is doing what his parents failed to do ... which is to teach him some manners and how to get along with others.
You have the "right" to believe in the god of your choice, to worship that god, to congregate with others who share your beliefs, and even to OFFER to discuss your beliefs with heathens like me. But you do not have the right to stick your face in my face and insult me with a t-shirt message.
I can pretty much guarantee you that this would never have been brought up as an issue if he did not already have a bad rapport with his peers. If what has been said about his character by his classmates is true, he is not promoting Christ, he's promoting intolerance.
Thus William is clearly and legally bound and beholden (note the imperative: "go") by his Chief Lord to evangelize others, teaching them to obey everything Jesus, the Chief Justice of the world, commanded.
This sort of speech control is exactly the same sort of thing that happened within the German education system during the Nazi regime---except they weren't so concerned with "feeling safe" as with their "war effort." Same emotional bullshit tho.
Clearly, anyone made to feel uncomfortable by evangelism is experiencing the effects of sin and should consider why God is making him feel that way, rather than projecting the blame for his experience onto the t-shirt/guy in the t-shirt and his talking.
"Without Buddha, life gives me no meaning".
"Without Yahweh, life is full of worry".
" And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28)"
Yes Sir, and as per the literal translation of the ancient Greek and Hebrew texts, not the English transliterations that are potentially and quantifiably rife with problematic translation, the word "AGE" is related to the "Great Year" which is a period of 25,920 years divided into 12 "AGES" , of which the most recent one is the age of PICSES ("PIcses, the fish, the fisherman") , 2100 years or so before that we had the AGE of ARIES (Aries, the Ram, the Rams horn used to call people to prayer) and before that the AGE of Taurus (Taurus the Bull, the Golden Calf)
‘Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water... follow him into the house where he entereth in.’. - Luke 22:10
Welcome to the AGE of Aquarius.
The AGE of Picses, for which Jesus represents the strongest figure is either in its waining years or over. Jesus fortold this in the passage above from Luke, it is not an end, it is a new beginning.
If William is to teach, he needs to teach current..... even Jesus was aware of this.
If i were Jesus I'd ask the world to be a little more braver.
Believe in yourselves, trust in yourselves.
Then you would be out of danger.
Miguel