Posted on 11/10/2023 8:45:09 AM PST by Morgana
A former high school student in Chicago was awarded $150k in damages from her public school after alleging that they tried to force her to worship a literal idol worship.
Mariyah Green is a dedicated Christian who felt coerced into participating in the Quiet Time meditation program that was implemented at Bogan High School in Ashburn. Summarized by Chicago Sun times:
In the lawsuit, Green alleges the “Transcendental Meditation” program was held during school hours, and students were required to participate in an initiation ceremony called a “Puja” — an “expression of gratitude” to the dead founders of the practice.
During the “Puja,” instructors chanted words in Sanskrit containing “statements recognizing the power possessed by various Hindu deities and invitations to those same Hindu deities to channel their powers” without telling students what they meant, the suit states.
Green learned of the “hidden religious nature” of the program and shared the information with other CPS students and teachers at Bogan. When teachers reminded her to meditate, she told them it “was not normal” and asked why students weren’t learning, the suit alleges.
When told to bow to a strange deity, as part of the program, Green resisted, explaining in an interview:
“Like, I’m in school right now, why is we learning how to meditate in this way? I just knew it wasn’t right. So that’s what made me take the initiative and go home to tell my parent and my auntie, who was my pastor at the time, that I didn’t feel comfortable with what they was enforcing on me at school.
The only time I kneel was when I was at the altar at church when I’m praying and I’m kneeling down for God because that was a way that we was taught, but not the kneeling to that idol. It was inappropriate.”
Well, at least they were up front about it.
In the future, She should Transcend Dental Medication.........
“Transcend Dental Medication”
Thanks I needed a laugh this morning!
Bogus High School in Ashburn. Sounds about right.
Like, I’m in school right now, why is we learning how to meditate in this way?
Definitely not learning English.
i wish she got more- $150,000 is just a rich investor’s donation- the school won’t learn anyth8ng for what they tried to do to her
Well done, kid... and your parents brought you up well.
These phoney hypocrites who unconstitutionally forbid the Bible and prayer in school but say nothing about idol and satan worship. Makes my blood boil.
The Day of Vengeance will come soon enough. Right now, we are still in the Acceptable Year of God’s grace to redeem and save that which is lost.
“Transcend Dental Medication.”
I do that everyday at 2:30
“Definitely not learning English.”
Well at least she knows better than to engage in idolatry. I think that trumps mastery of a spoken language.
“In the future, She should Transcend Dental Medication......“
Have a little nitrous with that, won’t you.
The same school would not have dared host a Catholic Mass.
This wasn’t by accident or naivety. Hope there the school district provided a proper consequence.
If I were she I would have knelt and recited the Lords Pray out loud. I am pleased she received the 150K.
She said “auntie” which may mean she is Black which would complicate it for the liberals.
Cute.
Guess you couldn’t be bothered to read the article as Green complained that students were not learning. She is indeed correct.
“Green learned of the “hidden religious nature” of the program and shared the information with other CPS students and teachers at Bogan. When teachers reminded her to meditate, she told them it “was not normal” and asked why students weren’t learning, the suit alleges. “
So you and your sanctimonious ass hat attitude can suck it.
Yep.
It’s sad.
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