rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (09/18/84)
>>If a teacher could simply announce that the next minute will >>be a minute of silence for prayer, meditation or private >>reflection and let it go at that (not even an 'amen' at the >>end much less "in _______'s name"), I don't see then how it >>could be harmful? > Do you really expect the ones who don't pray to sit still and be quiet with > nothing to do for an entire minute? [oliven!hawk] So obviously the answer is to force everyone to pray to make sure that everyone is doing something appropriate during that minute. (So obviously the REAL answer is not to have the minute at all, to allow anyone who wants to pray to do so at their leisure, and not to force others who have no desire to pray to do something against their beliefs to accommodate those who do wish to pray.) -- "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy!" Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) (09/18/84)
Whether or not the others sit still is irrelevant to the issue.