A christian graduation
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in christianity - 052701)

Just got back from a high school graduation ceremony.

Military honor guards prancing forth as the Pledge of
Allegiance, to the flag ...one nation under god yadayada
was presented, followed by ...

Invocation, a prayer from a student, thanking god yadayada.

Speech, from a student, asserting belief in jesus christ, wild
applaud from most of the audience, and several thanks to god
during her speech, with solicited applause from the audience,
as if the audience was applauding for god, of all things ...

Followed by another speech from a student with only one
mention of thanks to god, and no applause from the audience.
I suppose her speech failed to elicit applause 'cause she wasn't
nearly as effusive in her faith as was the preceding speaker.

By the by, the two interjections from the adult school repre-
sentatives were standard god-free presentments, simple calls
to conform to the cookie-cutter follow-the-system mentality
that permeates our current state-of-being in America...

So, to those of you who ponder why someone would dare
to speak up, in a so-called christian country, for freeing our
children from the brainwashing of single mindset indoctrina-
tion into the christian faith ...

the christian graduation, at the Hopheinz Pavilion, in Houston,
Texas, is testimony as to the reasons why ...

We, the U.S. of A., are failing our children and enslaving ...

generation ...

after ...

generation ...

Into the mindless brainwashing cycle of faith ...

Without a clue ...

Aside - I mentioned to a co-attender, prior to the graduation
ceremony, that the ceremony was likely to be a 'praise jesus'
event as, a few years earlier, at a graduation ceremony for the
same high school, a similar praise jesus-god graduation cere-
mony had taken place ...

I was right, sorry to say, and as long as ...

The American system of brainwashing is instilled
as an icon of pretentious/presumptuous substitution ...

For actually having the gall to T-H-I-N-K ...

and reason about what is right and wrong ...

With the unknowns of life called "unknown" instead
of god ...

- - - -

Similar graduation sermons/church service substitutes ...

Will continue to flow from the ...

Minds of the enslaved, our children, the generations ...

Into which, we, America, are instilling the worst and
most anti-human notions of that which it is to be ...

alive.

- - - -

The alternative?

Instilling into our children the notion that each human
being is ...

a free (from imaginary beings) - - - sentient - - - living - - -
(potentially and desirably) caring - - - being ...

in a world of mystery and wonder and, dare I say it,

TRUE FREEDOM

is possible, for future generations, ONLY IF ...

Our children are nurtured and cared for ...

in a saner world, a world free of imaginary beings, a
world into which children are educated into the actual
reality of our existence, a world in which ...

UNKNOWNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

are treated as UNKNOWNS, not god(s) . . . . . .