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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 256136" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Big,</p><p>I have to say I'm in your corner on this one and all because of the following statement from the article.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>This move is in relation to muslim dietary laws and this makes IMO a clear violation of separation of Church and State as this is an attempt of enforcing a religious dogma of one group on the lives of others who feel otherwise. Now I also agree that from the muslim perspective, pork on the menu can be an equally opposing force and as someone who at one time followed the dietary laws found in the Bible and Koran (Abrahamic tradition as found in both the Islamic and Israelite (jewish) law) and still do for the most part to this day, it does present a situation that could cause them to unknowningly violate their beliefs. It's one thing to work within the school system to have in place the means to accomodate for religious dietary laws especially when the gov't has compulsory school attendence laws but it's another thing to force an entire school population into a religious practice just to accomodate a small percentage of the overall student population.</p><p> </p><p>I think the better focus of efforts would be to do some historical research and learn of ancient customs and health circumstances in relation to certain prohibited food groups supposedly by the "Word of God". Education is the seeking of truth and I think some truth is what this situation needs. Might do well to also include the history and traditions of Christmas and Halloween as well. We might learn that certain "traditions of men" that were ascribed to God as a means of preventing a health problem in the case of the dietary laws present at one time in history when the laws came into being doesn't exist in the same manner in our day and time. We also might learn that certain holidays came into place because as one religion of an empire displaced another, the old traditional holidays of that society had to go but like today the people rebelled at that process. Instead, the same trapping and traditions remained but under a new reason in the hopes that over time the real purpose would change to meld into the new religious order of the empire. And it has worked very well indeed!</p><p> </p><p>It's funny what you learn studying history and traditons of people and if more of this were done, the radicalism of many religions would melt away in the light of truth as it would become obvious as the nose on one's face that what we've been told that is the "absolute word of God" in many cases has been nothing more than the words of a bunch of men out to manipulate and rule their own little fifedoms for their own means and purpose or to advance the bigger worldly empire created by other men!</p><p> </p><p>JMHO!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 256136, member: 2189"] Big, I have to say I'm in your corner on this one and all because of the following statement from the article. This move is in relation to muslim dietary laws and this makes IMO a clear violation of separation of Church and State as this is an attempt of enforcing a religious dogma of one group on the lives of others who feel otherwise. Now I also agree that from the muslim perspective, pork on the menu can be an equally opposing force and as someone who at one time followed the dietary laws found in the Bible and Koran (Abrahamic tradition as found in both the Islamic and Israelite (jewish) law) and still do for the most part to this day, it does present a situation that could cause them to unknowningly violate their beliefs. It's one thing to work within the school system to have in place the means to accomodate for religious dietary laws especially when the gov't has compulsory school attendence laws but it's another thing to force an entire school population into a religious practice just to accomodate a small percentage of the overall student population. I think the better focus of efforts would be to do some historical research and learn of ancient customs and health circumstances in relation to certain prohibited food groups supposedly by the "Word of God". Education is the seeking of truth and I think some truth is what this situation needs. Might do well to also include the history and traditions of Christmas and Halloween as well. We might learn that certain "traditions of men" that were ascribed to God as a means of preventing a health problem in the case of the dietary laws present at one time in history when the laws came into being doesn't exist in the same manner in our day and time. We also might learn that certain holidays came into place because as one religion of an empire displaced another, the old traditional holidays of that society had to go but like today the people rebelled at that process. Instead, the same trapping and traditions remained but under a new reason in the hopes that over time the real purpose would change to meld into the new religious order of the empire. And it has worked very well indeed! It's funny what you learn studying history and traditons of people and if more of this were done, the radicalism of many religions would melt away in the light of truth as it would become obvious as the nose on one's face that what we've been told that is the "absolute word of God" in many cases has been nothing more than the words of a bunch of men out to manipulate and rule their own little fifedoms for their own means and purpose or to advance the bigger worldly empire created by other men! JMHO! [/QUOTE]
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