Let's Just Call it "mas" And Be Done With It

As several school's attempt to take God out of a student's experience altogether: Teacher takes 'Christmas' out of Christmas carol, Officials boot 'God' from patriotic song, "God Bless the USA" and Christian Lawyers Fight Secularist 'Grinches' Over Christmas. Bah humbug indeed.

This raises some questions. Why are we removing faith and spiritual practice from our education? I'm not talking just about Christian faith, but faith and religious practice in general? It appears to me that this is misguided as we will simply be raising generations of the spiritually uneducated. I wonder if our youth will miss having the experience of putting their spiritual lives into practice in the context of a multi-faith environment. I wonder if our youth even be prepared to understand spiritual matters that are not from their own culture. Church is good, but it is the redoubt from which the body prepares to meet the world; it is not the place where believers will meet the world on a daily basis. Will seperation of church and state result in a state of affairs where our faiths are not allowed to interact with others?

Tongue in cheek: Will they know it's Christmas won't be a song about Africa anymore, but about the spiritually undernourished future generations.

(cap tip to Gary Petersen's meta at blogs4god.com)