tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post9045145022205093944..comments2023-05-02T11:34:45.330-04:00Comments on Thinking for Free: McPrayerKizhe the Couch Czarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046357500651886319noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-44978213336920100082008-03-05T15:03:00.000-05:002008-03-05T15:03:00.000-05:00Wow, I don't remember any official religious stuff...Wow, I don't remember any official religious stuff in my elementary school (child of the '80s) in Ontario (highschool was a different matter - went to a Catholic school). I agree with your theist perspective - forcing people to do it during announcements makes a mockery of what prayer is supposed to be.<BR/><BR/>I, for one, am still amazed and flabbergasted that our province still opens up gov't meetings with the Lord's Prayer. How archaic is that? <BR/><BR/>WT: My brother can't remember the words to O Canada in English, just in French.King Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785457928646226831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-9729625587083975962008-02-26T22:41:00.000-05:002008-02-26T22:41:00.000-05:00You have been viciously and unprovokedly memed.You have been viciously and unprovokedly <A HREF="http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2008/02/arrrgh-memed-again-mostly-i-try-to.html" REL="nofollow">memed</A>.John Pierethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17336244849636477317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-51306797008730226492008-02-24T19:02:00.000-05:002008-02-24T19:02:00.000-05:00You know, going through elementary school in the 1...You know, going through elementary school in the 1970s in Quebec, we never had prayers in any form. None in assembly, none in class, nothing over the PA system. I wonder if that has to do with the fact that a good 1/3 of the students in the (English language) school were Jewish. I do have vague memories of some "bible" lectures in class, Old Testament stories enacted on a piece of felt leaned up against the blackboard, but that seems to have been unusual, it happened a few times with one teacher, then never again.<BR/><BR/>We didn't sing the national anthem, either. I learned that at baseball games. Of course, at events like that, it started in English, and switched to French halfway through, so that's the only way I know to sing it. At least I have suppressed the automatic urge to append "Play ball!" to the end of the song.<BR/><BR/>I remember going to see a movie in Ottawa, and they played the national anthem before the show. Wargames, so that would have been 1983. My brother and I were quite surprised, we'd never heard that at movies in Quebec.Winter Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606540195506310406noreply@blogger.com