Prayer, Bible lessons and a big red bus: How an Ohio group is bringing God to public schools

[Slimshandy]

an Ohio-based nonprofit on a mission to put God back in the public school day.

Why do I get the feeling that the Church of Satan are going to have a field day with this one?

Maybe a big white bus with cartoon smiling Satans playing chess on it, and the logo "Putting Satan back into the public schools" ?

What would the point of that be?

Wouldn’t an “atheist bus” be a much better idea if freedom of thought is the goal rather than trying to antagonize Christians?

[Aletheia]

an Ohio-based nonprofit on a mission to put God back in the public school day.

Why do I get the feeling that the Church of Satan are going to have a field day with this one?

Maybe a big white bus with cartoon smiling Satans playing chess on it, and the logo "Putting Satan back into the public schools" ?

What would the point of that be?

Wouldn’t an “atheist bus” be a much better idea if freedom of thought is the goal rather than trying to antagonize Christians?

Some religions are large. "large" itself isn't a religion.
Some religions are atheist. "atheist" itself isn't a religion.

One example of a religion that is an atheist religion is the Temple of Satan.

Because of the wording of the relevant documents, only organisations that are religions get to claim "if you allow that religion over there to do X, then you must also allow us to do the same."

[Momto2boys973]

I was going to ask that, if it’s obligatory or voluntary. If it’s voluntary, I don’t see a problem with it.

The Founding Fathers of our nation absolutely did NOT want religion in government. No group should be allowed to push their religion onto the rest of us, especially not on young children. It's outrageous that this town allows this nonsense.

This has nothing to do with religion *in* government
It is religion *allowed* by the government as an extra curricular that is the student’s choice to join or not.

[29again]

When I was in elementary school, there was a lady with a bus that went around to the schools in town and did Religious Ed for each class. It was about 20 minutes right outside the school, just a simplistic telling of a Bible story and then an art/craft project. I don't recall any complaints about it, although there could have been some. The coolest thing was that my own kids got to experience the weekly religious ed with the same lady, she was almost an icon of our city school district. She must have done the bus thing for over 40 years. I'm not sure what the city does now, I haven't seen the bus around for quite some time.