'Don't impose your beliefs on us' is not imposing beliefs on anyone. Nice try, thanks for playing
Excuse me if this was posted before. I tried to do that but I cannot find the thread.
Public High School Vinyl LP From Washington 1960's Many Christian Songs
This is one of many American public High School vinyl albums that were put out in the 1960s to 1980s that have many blatant Christian songs. They show that freedom of religion in America does not mean freedom from religion in the public sphere. This high school chorus sang mostly explicitly Christian songs on this LP. You can see close-ups of the back cover with the song titles as the album progresses. It shows in a Democracy, if 51 percent of the people want to do something, it should be allowed to be done if in done in a spirit of decency. Those who do not want to be a part of it do not have to witness it.
One can see the great damage done to the mind of the young when we let marketing and corporations take over as the main voice of values. This goes for music as well. The absence of the life of faith is now being seen by even academics like Jordan Peterson to be one reason why much of society is in trouble. The corporate run media is the culprit for the rise in violence, despair, suicide, drug abuse, and break down of the two parent family. It could only have been allowed to get this bad by the absence of the Christian spirit in America.
The style of this music may sound unusual to many, but if you play it at a low volume it has the same pleasant ambiance of Christmas music.
Jordan Peterson doesn't endorse religion per se, he endorses understanding the power of religious symbols and mythology. It's wrong to see him endorsing a specific kind of religious belief. His actual, personal belief about religion seems to be based on transpersonal Jungian psychology.
JBP tends to complain about the rather vague postmodern neomarxism, while basically recommending Christianity in all but name. Similarly vague, equally useless. .
How are American students inundated with Christianity? Students aren't fighting that war; and studying Islam isn't a prerequisite to signing up for a military career.
Jordan Peterson doesn't endorse any religion specifically, he endorses understanding the power of religious symbols and mythology. It's wrong to see him endorsing a specific kind of religious belief. His actual, personal belief about religion seems to be based on transpersonal Jungian psychology.
Obfuscation on religion or supernaturalism seems to be the order of the day in the ramblings of J. Peterson. One gets the distinct notion that he doesn't accept some key piece of Christian dogma (like the trinity or eternal salvation) and wants to lead his followers into thinking he believes what they believe.
As somebody who has lived some of my life as somebody who didn't profess Christianity, I can tell you our culture is inundated with Christian symbols.
This is but one example of how much Christianity inundates America's consciousness- it's literally something a person cannot avoid even if they wanted to. It is an unearned, rarely challenged privilege, to the point that the epiphet of the Christian deity is even on dollar bills, something that the US Supreme Court, curiously enough, doesn't consider "religious" (which is proof enough of the pervasive bias in our culture).
That'a an interesting perspective. As a Christian, I look around; and I'm inundated with Satanic symbolism. It's everywhere.
Have you looked into the symbolism depicted on the dollar bill?
IN GOD WE TRUST
It doesn't say "In Amaterasu we Trust" or "In Vishnu we trust". Nope. It says something that's historically understood by Christians as the object of their worship.
If you asked the average Christian if he worshiped Horace; he'd say, "nope."
My point exactly. Even the dollar bills proclaim the Christian's object of worship.
Again, Christians don't worship Horace.
Horace isn't on the dollar bill.
It's winking at you.
That's as much as I'm going to say on the subject, lest we drift off topic.
But that's not an imposition on religious faith, only on ignorance and bigotry.I find telling my children that they have to attend public school, and have acceptance of homosexuality, and to be preached Abiogenesis as an imposition.
Would you like to double down? I'm just getting warmed up.
-snip- and to be preached Abiogenesis as an imposition.
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I remember feeling very uncomfortable when a Jewish classmate was forced to sing Christian songs in elementary school around Christmas time. Heck, I was too young to understand why it was so difficult for him, but I could tell he wasn't too happy with the situation. My mom tried to explain it to me later, but it was all too confusing for my young mind to comprehend.Unless you are seeking to impose a suppression of Christianity; promoting Christianity should be in no way an imposition for you.
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