This topic is about the historical legal case, where a high school student wanted to play American football but refused to engaged in the group prayer that the team of not community held every game before and after at midfield.
The question is, does the player have the right, not to pray? And for the solution, one must know, for one, if someone has the right to pray, and if so, must one pray with others, at a certain time and place? The other, more deeply personal question one may ask herself is, can one ever not pray?
For the first question, I am sure to hear many opinions from many differing perspectives, but for the second question, I believe no one aside from Michael would have the Authority to answer properly. For instance, sometimes when I try to pray, “the words just don’t seem to come out right”, and in other cases, I find myself praying even though I wish with all my might that I did not, or would have. The prayer exudes me, spontaneously, and I cannot with my own moral restraint withhold my tears or my desperation. Whether those moments were constituted in prayer or otherwise is not my prerogative to have judged. For after all, I am not the witness of myself.
- So consider the timelines of that boy’s claim, whether it is bolstered or supported wholly, you should notice some type of facsimile. I speculate with the hopes of universality unto this generation, and not to spot him out. I want to know of course what is the ideal perspective of prayer, but with regards to individuality, I cannot say at this point that he or his defendant is either wrong or right, even righteous to posit this case here and now. Perhaps Michael shall descend and speak frankly for all and unequivocally upon this matter.
