Everything around us, including marriage, the colour black and time, are perceptions based on how we are raised, what we see, how we are taught -- what influences us often melds into what we believe to be true; religions, colours and at what point the icecream truck arrives.
Do you know Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion protects people to be able to pray in schools?
They can pray wherever they like except they cannot force prayer onto other people -- also, they cannot pray in public buildings in front of religious relics, say, in a museum. They are no longer religious symbols - they are art.
That's stupid.
It helps prevent crap-loads of people piling into the museum for religious reasons -- allowing museum patrons to view the artwork as a whole instead of masses of human bodies standing before it in a ritualistic replacement of going to church, et cetera -- you can pray silently and without knealing before a piece, but nothing that would draw attention.
Why not?
Why not what? Draw attention? It would be distracting to the people who come there to learn.
If you pray by getting on your knees... shouldn't you be allowed to do that anywhere?
There are other methods of praying -- and if you need to pray by knealing, then you can wait until you are somewhere else, in my opinion. A museum, taken as a shrine unto itself, has it's own religion and practices. You do not kneel before the relics.
Catholics believe the world is God's work..so praying anywhere should be allowed.
Every religion believes in something -- even irreligions. If you combine everything into one great big conglomerate free-for-all -- allowing each person to pray as they see fit in the same setting and space -- pandemonium would ensue. Rules that prohibit such things are sometimes necissary for the good of all. We wouldn't want a fight to break out, the decapitated priest to fall over and Mary with the baby Jesus to crack into a million pieces.
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