Today Maya found out she gets to read a couple lines for the Spring concert at school. Ironically her lines are explaining about what Sunni Muslims are. I think she should add something about how it is customary for Sunni women to make their husbands drive all the way across town to buy poor cuts of meat at inflated prices - eh, we don't want to do anything to give the Muslims a bad name.
I'm guessing the theme of the concert, like the "Holiday concert," is about how all cultures are different yet similar - for the Holiday Concert it was about how each culture had it's own version of Santa Claus. Could the Spring concert be about how we all have different versions of God that are all the same yet different? God is after all very similar to Santa other than the fact that Santa doesn't condemn people to hell - which goes a long way in explaining his popularity. I'm guessing it is all going to boil down to tolerance, just because people think and believe differently than ourselves they are still worthy of our respect - and that even extends to those weirdo Mormons
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You are soooooooo mean, Steven!! What is wrong with Mormans? They are super nice people....and most other religious groups cannot say that for themselves.
Happy Friday!
Just curious. Could she read about the Shiite Muslims? Is anyone reading about the Shiites? Do the Protestant denominates each get a separate reader? Are the Mormons Protestant?
Why can't a spring concert be about spring?
I hope they have one of the children reading about wackos with fanatic religious backgrounds that hate rich people and go crazy shooting classmates at college. It wouldn't be fair and tolerant to leave the crazies out. It's important we understand those people too you know.:)
Well, Maya is talking about how Muslims attend Mosque to pray.
They will probably have some other kid get up and talk about Evangelicals and how they believe in interfering in a womans right to choose. We are living in the in the middle of the Peoples Socialist Republic of Minnesota - you have to expect these things. :-)
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