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Sigh.... Where to start.... ok.

I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses, so without a doubt I believe... no, I know that there is no hell. Death is the absence of life, which constitutes nothingness. There is no punishment worse than death. In revelation, the "lake of fire" is spoken about. If you read further, you see that is actually says "this means/is/signifies (I can't remember the exact word used) the second death." This refers to the second dying after the ressurection and judgement of those who did not make it.

There are two rewards for those who make are righteous (sp?). There are the righteous people and the exemplary who are concidered the annointed ones. The annointed will replace the 144 thousand angels that were lost and they will help god in heaven. The gathering of the annointed bagan at the beginning of the last days, which we have marked as 1914. The righteous will inhabit the earthly paradise. God said to Adam and Eve to 'inhabit the earth and be fruitful,' and that commandment has not deteriorated. It took a 'small' setback, but it is still the goal god has for mankind.



As for religion in school, I know that the schools are not allowed to endorse religous "traditions" or "rituals". That also means that they can can not put things on you that are against your religion, such as movies you find offensive or assemblies that you disagree with. I do not believe in christmas, and so when the christmans assembly comes around, I abstain from going in that building, and there is nothing that they can do and there is no action that they can take against me. Any attempt is unconstitutional. As long as your prayer does not break a school rule, you are fine. A silent prayer kept fairly small breaks no school rule I know of. And as I said before, any attempt to punish you for that is unconstitutional. If you take that up to the main office and lay that in front of them and prove that you broke no rule, they have to drop it.

Intolerance is everywhere, whether they are athesist or not; christian or not; there are always people who are intolerant. They have a church life and a non-church life. On constitutes a bible. the other is anywhere from intolerance to a gun.
Example 1: Northern Ireland - Catholics versus Protestants.
Example 2: Jeruselem - Israelis versus Palistinians. (Considered one of the most holy places in both of those religions; so holy they stain it in blood; some of it is innocent blood.)



Well, the world isn't getting any better.