Politics in the Playground

Hehehe, I started this huge "discussion" (people talking passionately in raised voices) today about whether or not the School Captains of a Catholic School (such as the one I go to (hence the passion - interestingly the division) ) have to be Catholics. I myself was brought up in a family which goes to church every Sunday, everyone except for me that is. Now I don't actually want to be school captain, I rather working quietly in the background and talking with small groups of people than standing in front of school assemblies acting as an administrative mouth piece (available at a chemist near you!), but I am going to run for leadership council (who are all interviewed for the position (by prinicipals selection) of school captain (male and female ^) anyway (the council is able to do a lot more in changing the school than I am able to do by myself, I need to become more confident with my public speaking, and I like being able to do something for the other people in my year group / the rest of the school). I mentioned this to one of my friends the other day, and told them about how one of the student leadership council members, who a lot of people think should have been School Captain, was basically crossed off because he said he was an aethiest, despite this, he is one of the only SLC members who are actively involved in any social justice activity, he's the only one who I've actually seen talking to students other than his friends, and he's probably the only one who gives a stuff about most of the things happening around the school.

Anyway It was pretty funny, most of the people in my group of friends are relatively reasonable when it comes to religion, that is they aren't blind followers of anything and have made up their own minds. I think the people who do have a strong catholic faith don't talk about it much because the group of us who don't believe / don't know are so very outspoken (still everyones individual beliefs are respected). It's good to see that a few people just listened to what people where saying instead of jumping in and raving on about what they thought.
Good points from both sides - some struggles communicating thoughts - Some very strange analogies. But Overall a very entertaining lunch-hour (Lunch 50 minutes *)

(I think Luke has audio / video of it happening in the background, probably Riley filming though (on Lukes digital camera (a sony which has video with sound), Riley has the habit of going round taking photo's with it, so does Michaela. I used to take a heap of photo's at school, but mostly of the buildings and I tried to be inconspicious if I was taking photo's of people, and asked permission, instead of just running round shoving it in their faces / >down shirts< (more on that some other time)

Maybe this blog needs a content level rating, then again maybe not, I'm not to fond of censorship, Is this blog still blocked by the NSW public education system in North East NSW Benita?