You're not wrong - but the 'public life' tends to be open only to a small number of religions - and the more support those religions have from the state, the less public life is open for a) atheists and b) other believers to follow *their* beliefs.
If schools have a moment of contemplation, nobody knows what you're saying inside your head: you might address a deity, you might simply go 'I hate this place'. If schools have a school prayer you're supposed to say aloud, then those who belong to that religion can practice openly; those who are not have to jump through extra hoops and may suffer consequences. And the less happy they are to sit through a daily prayer, the more problems they might invite.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2017-12-02 07:26 pm (UTC)If schools have a moment of contemplation, nobody knows what you're saying inside your head: you might address a deity, you might simply go 'I hate this place'. If schools have a school prayer you're supposed to say aloud, then those who belong to that religion can practice openly; those who are not have to jump through extra hoops and may suffer consequences. And the less happy they are to sit through a daily prayer, the more problems they might invite.
'Not privileged' does not equal 'excluded'.