Damon Fowler's Argumentative Essay: Religious Freedom In Public Schools

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Damon Fowler, a juvenile protestant against religious activities, expressed his perspective of religious affairs before an upcoming graduation ceremony. Thus, his acts to stop the forthcoming religious practice that would have occurred during the ceremony took place, and the religious prayer was cancelled. Therefore, the aftermath of the high school student opposition did not cease with only the religious intervention. The complaint that was reported by the student, was also followed by an individual leaking his name as the one behind the complaint. As result, Damon Fowler has been publicly demeaned by teachers and other students, physically threatened which also involved death threats, and was ostracized from
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Therefore, few individuals gather to annihilate the issue. Thus, the foregoing case creates multiple new cases involving religious suppression, discrimination among religious classes, and even racism."A starling number of reports regarding alleged suppression of religious expression, as well as religious students groups being denied official recognition for universities unless the groups adhered to non-discrimination policies that conflicted with their religious beliefs." Nowadays, juveniles and millennials commence to expose their philosophies towards religious affairs, advancing in the vast worlds or religion. An superior number of the under-age and millennial referred previously, dedicate their religious paths to a secularist regimen. Secularism has increase for the last few years, and the augmentation is mostly reflected among adolescents and young adults. One of the negative symptoms observe within secularism and its participants is a lack of empathy towards religion and a negative reaction impacting the same subject. As result, individuals integrate in secularism, suffer a lack of empathy towards religion causing a hostile interaction with religious members or believers. Among those religious apprentices, most of the reports recorded involve discrimination, exclusion and even rebellion. In consequence, juveniles conflicts within religion is limited, to date, discrimination, exclusion and rebellion are the cases expresses from juveniles cases. Despite the limitation, the number of cases reported are assumingly increasing, which could result in a not remote future, in which the number of cases could double with a greater threat aiming the first

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