This came up on a sports talk radio show this morning. The idea that if everyone is supposed to show respect during the playing of the national anthem, how come people are watching and taking pictures of NFL players taking a knee? Shouldn't everyone be standing, saluting/right hand over their heart, and facing the flag while the national anthem is being played?
This took me back to my first few years of public school in the US (1959-1963). We'd get a box of milk in the afternoon, and the teachers would have us pray before we were allowed to drink it. (We'd also have church people come into the school once a week to give a Bible lesson. Didn't seem unusual to a bunch of mostly WASP kids back then, but the Supreme Court eventually put a stop to that.) Quite often after the prayer before we were allowed to drink the milk box, some kid would complain to the teacher, "Mrs. Jones, Suzy wasn't praying with everyone else!" Most of the time nothing would happen, but I remember one teacher who would point out, "Billy, how do you know that Suzy wasn't praying? Were you praying with your eyes open?"
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.
This took me back to my first few years of public school in the US (1959-1963). We'd get a box of milk in the afternoon, and the teachers would have us pray before we were allowed to drink it. (We'd also have church people come into the school once a week to give a Bible lesson. Didn't seem unusual to a bunch of mostly WASP kids back then, but the Supreme Court eventually put a stop to that.) Quite often after the prayer before we were allowed to drink the milk box, some kid would complain to the teacher, "Mrs. Jones, Suzy wasn't praying with everyone else!" Most of the time nothing would happen, but I remember one teacher who would point out, "Billy, how do you know that Suzy wasn't praying? Were you praying with your eyes open?"
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.