I do not consider myself to be racist or prejudice in any way shape or form in spite of the things I am about to say. I have people in my life of all ethnicity's, faiths, and sexual orientation. I have no problem with allowing them to share in my life their belief's or reasoning's for choices they make as long as they have the same respect toward me sharing mine.
More often than not disagreeing occurs and that is just fine. Even within the community of same faith believers I find rarely do we agree 100% on our theological standpoints but we can choose to live in harmony - discerning when to debate and when to let it go and love one another where we are each at.
I do have an issue with our once upon a time God-fearing government toying with the idea of allowing for regulated prayer times for those of the Islamic faith in the public schools that all of our tax dollars support when they would not even allow me to say the name of God as a Christian in my own high school growing up.
In the past two decades we have stripped the public school system of all things related to the God of the Christian faith - the belief's in which our country was first founded. And now, because of the political pull that is created from personal rights and because we have to be fair to all those we allow to cross our boarders, we will go out of our way to create space and time for young Muslims to live out their faith within the premises of the public school.
Maybe it's just me, but I struggle a great deal with this issue.
Not because I think their faith choices should be squelched but because ours were and still are.
I struggle with even teasing this movement because not only has Christianity been forced out of the school systems here in Canada, we go out of our way to allow other faiths to consume where we shouldn't have cut in the first place.
Do not take offence to my next statement I simply am speaking the hard reality... I struggle with this because if I were to move to any Islam faith country and walked into their school with my children in tow to request - even in the most humble way - that I would like a place for them to have designated time during the school day for their Christian prayers... Do you know what would happen? We would be disposed of.
That's the cold hard truth.
If I want my children to have a Christ centered faith even here in our own country then I will either have to pay thousands of dollars each year to send them to private Christian school or take on the responsibility of teaching them from home.
Why should it be any different for those of any other faith in this country?
If the decision is made in Toronto, to go out of the way to provide the opportunity for those to express outwardly the demands of Islamic prayer then the same respect ought to be brought back into place for those of every other faith represented by our melting pot of a country.
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/144877--groups-protest-muslim-prayers-at-toronto-public-school
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