You see it particularly in schools where the majority of teachers are of course christians. They cannot leave well enough alone and let people choose to go to their religious ceremonies wherever they are presented. They know that “their” particular religion cannot sell itself because it is simply a fabrication. So, like any product that is pure BS, they have to sell, sell, sell, etc. They can’t have “prayer” in class so they have “moment of silence” (same thing). They can’t use jesus in a song, so they slip in some other term or phrase that everyone knows means the same thing. ANYTHING they can come up with that is of THEIR desire to force their religion down other peoples’ throats. With these people it is like some kind of mental illness. They simply cannot stop trying to sell their BS to others.

ONN and similar “news” sites typically cite no references for their claims. This is because much of their stuff is completely fabricated. They also like to cherry-pick parts of true stories/real research to suit their agenda, and giving links to the original would allow people to see what portions of the original they chose to ignore.

I came here to say something similar. I’ve run across someone promoting the Liberty Counsel like crazy somewhere else. I’m thinking they are making up their “cases”.

But in the spring of my eighth grade year, she made us sing “Do Lord,” and I flat-out refused to get up on the risers and sing, “I took Jesus as my saviour, you take him too!” I caused a fuss and my parents backed me up. The teacher ended up withdrawing the song, but there was an uproar — I lost friends and a parent wrote a letter to our local paper saying that my parents were raising me without any values.

A subsequent concert (in which I did not participate) featured the execrable “All in All,” which I took as an attempt to rile me up. Luckily, the song was so bad that the joke was on them.

I have nothing against Handel or other religious songs that are historically/culturally significant or musically interesting. The problem is that many school choruses are so Jesus-heavy that non-Christians don’t even bother to join. Frankly, I think it’s a giant cop-out for music teachers to spend one of their two major concerts singing simple carols that most of the kids already know. What is that supposed to teach them, other than that their teachers love Jesus as much as they do?

I went to a public high school (wherein a large percentage of the student body were not religious) in Canada and we sang religious songs in the choir all the time. Not only for Christmas, but for competitions and other music nights. I thought they were absolutely beautiful, much better than the Rudolph crap you sing in elementary school.

The school shouldn’t've had to change the words, and also, get over it. These songs are beautiful and deserve to be sung and played.