Comments on: Prayer Circles on the Playground http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/06/prayer-circles-on-the-playground/ si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 By: Mauro http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/06/prayer-circles-on-the-playground/comment-page-1/#comment-26217 Mauro Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:27:06 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=24005#comment-26217 Hm, reminds me of a time my freshman year of high school, on the band trip, where various band kids decided to join hands in a prayer circle. I was thinking about it recently, actually. I didn't really know any of the people in my band were religious at all, so I figured this was just something they were used to doing in their religious schools? It didn't seem particularly hurtful to anyone else, though. One of the more popular Jewish kids decided to make a Jewish prayer circle, and I think I joined that one, but it's too long ago to remember now (April of 1999). I don't think there's really anything wrong with prayer circles, so long as they aren't explicitly offensive to anyone like in the case you mentioned. Sure, it may alienate some students, but that's no different from celebrating any other distinction, like "people who have seen this movie" or "people who play this popular game" or, like last weekend, being in a picture at a wedding consisting of all of the people who were members or alums of a particular club, which necessarily left out several of the attendees. Hm, reminds me of a time my freshman year of high school, on the band trip, where various band kids decided to join hands in a prayer circle. I was thinking about it recently, actually. I didn’t really know any of the people in my band were religious at all, so I figured this was just something they were used to doing in their religious schools? It didn’t seem particularly hurtful to anyone else, though. One of the more popular Jewish kids decided to make a Jewish prayer circle, and I think I joined that one, but it’s too long ago to remember now (April of 1999).

I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with prayer circles, so long as they aren’t explicitly offensive to anyone like in the case you mentioned. Sure, it may alienate some students, but that’s no different from celebrating any other distinction, like “people who have seen this movie” or “people who play this popular game” or, like last weekend, being in a picture at a wedding consisting of all of the people who were members or alums of a particular club, which necessarily left out several of the attendees.

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