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Religious items
I’ve just read this, about a girl who insists on wearing jewellery at school. She’s a Sikh, and wears a bangle to remind her to “do good and not bad with her hands”. Are Sikhs unable to remember that without said bracelet? Apparently, its purpose means it is not a piece of jewellery. The school rules say the only jewellery that may be worn at school are plain stud earrings and a wristwatch, so in my book, she’s breaking the rules.
Apparently, the bracelet is one of five articles of Sikh faith, known as the five K’s. One of these K’s is a kirpan ’silver sword’. Surely, if she wins the fight to wear the bracelet, she should be able to take a silver sword to school with her as well?
I say make all schools secular, ban all religious items - especially swords! - and teach theology and philosophy of religion objectively for educational reasons, rather than making pupils pray to a god they may or may not believe in. Surely, if you pray insincerely to a god you don’t believe in, it’s blasphemy or something, right?
If people were taught about the major religions objectively, and thought about why religion exists, there might be a bit more tolerance and understanding between them all.
This entry was posted on Tuesday 13th November, 2007 ~ 3.22pm GMT and is filed under Current Affairs, Life, the universe and everything and is tagged with breaking things, religion, schools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Tuesday 15th January, 2008 ~ 3.06pm GMT
Absolutely Agree!