Looking back, I remember I had to in school. I just thought it was normal at the time, but now it seems dodgy as hell, trying to get kids in the Christian mindset like that.

What are your thoughts on this

Yeah but like a rebel I would only PRETEND to pray.

yeah but we were super unenthusiastic about it

That's prettt gross, fam. Non secular nations are a mistake.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on July 18, 2017, 12:26:21 PM

That's prettt gross, fam. Non secular nations are a mistake.

>pledge of allegiance

Should be returned to the original.

Quote from: Aria on July 18, 2017, 12:43:20 PM

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on July 18, 2017, 12:26:21 PM

That's prettt gross, fam. Non secular nations are a mistake.

>pledge of allegiance

Should be returned to the original.

Shouldn't be a thing at all.

Yeah. I (or at least I used to) know Our Father in Irish, English, and Welsh. The Irish and Welsh has faded away but the English one remains to heart, the stubborn fuckin' thing;


It made some sense in Ireland because it was a Catholic Primary school in a predominantly Catholic country, but in Britain in Secondary school I couldn't understand why. I ended up not bothering here, seeing as I didn't believe in it and was wisening up to peer pressure, so while everyone bowed and got on with it I remained upright and sat silently.

I remember my brother got into trouble about it in Primary school (<12y/o) because he didn't do it once, and it turns out in public schools it is/(was?) compulsory to do the prayer at a morning assembly. No mention of forcing the kids to do it though.

The older I got the more I questioned the whole point of it, many of the kids weren't religious at all or were merely christened out of tradition and weren't devout. There was this Jehovah kid who always had to wait outside the halls during assembly, assumedly because of the Christian prayer. I wondered how the hell he ever got information, because occasionally there was something actually important going on and he wouldn't hear about it.

Don't remember doing it in primary school, although we did it in my CofE middle school every day.

When I lived there, I don't remember explicitly having to pray, despite going to a catholic school, however I remember going to the church across the street a lot, and when I switched to a private school I remember going to the church they had on the school grounds a couple of times.

Even got to ring the church bells once.

Quote from: Ushan on July 20, 2017, 01:49:37 AM

When I lived there, I don't remember explicitly having to pray, despite going to a catholic school, however I remember going to the church across the street a lot, and when I switched to a private school I remember going to the church they had on the school grounds a couple of times.

Even got to ring the church bells once.

Too bad you didn't fall out of the bell tower

The ropes reached down to ground level.