I alone am best: Its a metaphor for saying if you're praying in public for the sole purpose of letting other people see you then you and think you are holy then you are a hypocrite. It has nothing to do with people who are praying in public for the reason of practicing their faith.

Yeah. It doesn't actually say that.

genner: dj_bigbird: I guess this guy hasn't read his own Bible, Matthew 6:5-7

Since when is a t-shirt the equivalent to prayer.

If he's claiming religious persecution based on the content of the t-shirt, then apparently since this kid in the article decided so.

The Flexecutioner: skullkrusher: Stupid kid in Canada

ftfy

not sure what the kid is doing wrong

The Flexecutioner: if you read the article he is being rather obstinate about this particular shirt. the school had no problem with other christian shirts and even asked that he add the word 'My" to the one in the article but he has changed it into a human rights/assault on christianity argument. i find that quite stupid, not literally stupid, but figuratively. and from reading other articles about this kid/topic linked in this thread it seems he may be doing a bit of proselytizing/religion baiting at the school.

I did indeed read the article. I don't see why his is obligated to prepend the shirt with a "My". If you go home crying to your mom because some kid's shirt says "Life is wasted without Jesus", they should be sending you to the guidance counselor, not making the kid change his shirt

Tatsuma: kingoomieiii: Yeah nothing hateful with 'Your life is pointless if you don't agree with me'

Do you even know what the word 'hateful' means?

A student who repeatedly harasses other students about their beliefs and uses a slightly-irritating slogan to proclaim that he will continue to do so?

Boatmech: Smoky Dragon Dish: Boatmech: Smoky Dragon Dish: Mugato: I had to wear tape over my "I'm Bart Simpson, who the Hell are you?" shirt, that's how far back I go.

We couldn't wear Spuds McKenize tee-shirts at school. That's how far back *I* go.

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I'll see your Panama Jack, and raise you an OP.

About the same vintage if I remember right.
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I wore one like this to school way back when.
Instead if sending me home I had to wear my stinky gym t-shirt over my cool Ozzy shirt!

Well, if you wanted to dress it up a little preppy, you could always break out the Benetton rugby shirts. I was never a fan, though...

There was a similar incident in my middle school. IIRC, the kid usually wore Christian themed clothing but the one that got him in trouble said something along the lines of "Jews are going to Hell," but in "more polite" language.

dbutts: liam76: "But I didn't go for that because I have my rights as a Canadian citizen," Swinimer said.


You have no right to free speechin canada silly.

Unless of course you are a muslim insulting christians, jews or homosexuals.

Why can't we send all the religious people to an island with guns, like Hunger Games or something, and figure out who the true God is? Kinda like what they wanna do with the gays.

1/10 Not a good trolling attempt. You need more practice.
1/10 Pas une bonne tentative à la traîne. Vous avez besoin de plus de pratique.

/ Respecting your human rights for bilingualism.

Crotchrocket Slim: ROBOTwHUM4NHAIR: ASININE TAG? seriously? Im not saying i agree with it not asinine tho to not let him wear it with how people file lawsuit for everything. I wouldnt let him wear it for fear of my school getting a lawsuit with all these nutjobs out there. And btw jesus people not bashing u, but its true if they let him wear and got sued THEY WOULD LOSE THAT LAWSUIT and then there wouldnt be a school. However if his shirt supported atheism or islamic views u would be the same people saying "he cant wear that bc of what it supports" i love how hypocritical religous folk are. Think about the Bible when u read it, it either has to be completely made up or complete and utter exagerrations.

You might want to talk to your operator/user about upgrading your typed eloquence subroutines. This style of text is next to impossible to read.

Protip: there are situations where using the shift button and space bar are appropriate, and other situations when their use would not be appropriate. We actually have rules that govern when one should be capitalizing things and ending sentences.
/and this is from someone who doesn't give a damn about presenting prefectly edited posts to Fark
//spot the intentional error

Don't waste your time. This farker is part 1337, based on his/her username. It is you, sir, who is in error concerning his or her display of magnificence of prose.

/ People who speak 1337 are L4M4Hz

I alone am best: I think the answer is yes. If you believe in God and you are doing it to spread his word and your only bringing the attention to yourself because of that then God would not look down on you. This passage is just for people who are doing it for the sole purpose of convincing others of their piety.

Also, I am not defending the kid. I think he is an attention whore. I just think that people who don't understand what it means should tell Christians that they should go pray in their bedroom and only in their bedroom should be spouting off about it.

I think this is an interesting reading, mostly because it adds meaning that the chapter doesn't contain to excuse the behavior of current Christians. It's essentially an eisegesis that allows the current practices to continue even though they're clearly in violation of Matthew 6. After all, the passage clearly doesn't delineate between true believers and false believers who pray in public. If anything, it suggests that praying in public is actually a problem itself, even if you are being otherwise righteous and believing while doing so.

Then you say, "I just think that people who don't understand what it means should tell Christians that they should go pray in their bedroom and only in their bedroom should be spouting off about it." That assumes that the people who understand this passage differently =/= Christians, which is a laughable claim. After all, the assumption (or presumption) that Christians have a special understanding of the Bible granted by God basically precludes the existence of more than a few splinter major splinter groups . . . and we can look around to see the falsity of that assumption. There's just no way to reconcile special revelation with our actual, living world, or with the understanding that Christians are sinners too.

Inerrancy and infallibility are weird things, even when talking about just the limited claims that the Pope makes. That some Christians in the United States claim that they apply to the average Christian on the street in any matter involving salvation are . . . .bizarre. Not especially Christian, anyway.

unyon: FloydA: They can probably smell him from Ottowa. Ottawa

/FTFY
//seems like you Seetlites can never speel

Yeah well, who cares about the Senaters? They'll never win the Stan Lee cup.

dbutts: Smoky Dragon Dish: dbutts: liam76: "But I didn't go for that because I have my rights as a Canadian citizen," Swinimer said.


You have no right to free speechin canada silly.

Unless of course you are a muslim insulting christians, jews or homosexuals.

Why can't we send all the religious people to an island with guns, like Hunger Games or something, and figure out who the true God is? Kinda like what they wanna do with the gays.

1/10 Not a good trolling attempt. You need more practice.
1/10 Pas une bonne tentative à la traîne. Vous avez besoin de plus de pratique.

/ Respecting your human rights for bilingualism.

Trolling who? There are religious people on Fark? Still? On Fark...but why? Don't get me started on the God Damn French Language Police...

There are religious people everywhere, but in differing quantities. Freeman Dyson is religious, and he's a lot smarter than me, to name one.

You mean the police langue française de l'Enfer? Right???