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Thu 10 Mar, 2005 08:09 pm
They have been called the "GODSQUAD", a group of students who have taken upon themselves to judge those who are not as public with their beliefs or are uncertain of their beliefs. They have managed to tear apart life long friendships and created divisions within the student body. Their judgements of others are blatent and hurtful. If they truly are good christians they should remember .. (Matthew) "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
I believe in God, I have been baptized and gives thanks daily. I am ashamed of those in the "GODSQUAD" who talk about others and make judgement of those students who keep their faith private or those who are uncertain. I have no right to pass judgement ...only God does...
Care to give us any more details, anti? Who, what, where, when, etc.? Hard to comment without knowing more.
Psh how fundamentalism can work.
Got a link that i can read?
Answers about the GodSquad
They are high school kids, like myself, who used to be some of my best friends but have put their religious beleifs before everything else in their lives.
No, the "godsquad" is a name that pretty much the entire school has called the group of boys and girls who have taken religion to a whole new level(not a good thing)
El-Diablo, That is scary. School children pushing the Christian religion on others. Where are the adults?
What? No one out there from this school is going to stand up to say anything? I know you guys are on here. So why not just stand up and admit to it????
Antigodsquad,
High school is a trial. We old folks sometimes look back on it with nostalgia, but time dulls the experience and we forget. You are caught in the experience, and the experience is often one of acute pain and suffering. The causes of high school suffering are almost unlimited. If the religious conflict you describe is the only thing causing suffering for you and your classmates, you are almost unbelievably lucky.
Cast your mind back over your short life for a moment. Recapture your anxiety to be a big kid and go off to school for the first time. It wasn't what you thought it might be, was it? You had to learn the social rules from the teacher, but even more so from other children. Some of that was hard, but you still had faith in your family and their support, and love made things easier. After a time, you were promoted through the grades as your skills in academic subjects increased and the subjects became harder. More and more your life centered on school and your classmates as you discovered the larger world. You still accepted the rules set down by the family, the school, society and your religious group. You were mostly preoccupied with mastering the subjects before you.
As you entered high school, nature kicked in and your body began to change and your mind was increasingly distracted. Your classmates are going through the same changes. The world seems sometimes to have become unstuck. On the other hand, this is HIGH SCHOOL the end of your primary education. The BIG time when students are grown up and ready to go out into the world. Your peer group at school has probably almost supplanted your family's rules in determining your life-style values. Some, perhaps most, high school students are in a state of almost constant testing and rebellion against the social order as defined by the schools, society and the church. You know so much more now than you did when you first entered kindergarten. You can much more easily see the hypocrisy of adults and other students. The gap between the ideals, which you still cling to, and the reality has been growing for the past several years of your life. You can and do use the knowledge and skills you learned in school to persuade, threaten, and cajol. How does one react to all of the changes that you are going through?
High school is a time for fads, as we try to hide our inner doubts by fitting in with the crowd. Few cohorts are as chauvinistic as the adolescent in high school. Our group is the ultimate, and all others are hopelessly confused and lost. This applies to every sub-set of the high school population. The BMOCs look down on the nerds, and the nerds return the compliment. Jocks and Goths, Surfers and "those without a clue" all have their role and place in the high school world. The GodSquad you describe is just such a self-described "in crowd" with their own self-defined "qualifications" for being "the best".
Sex is on adolescent minds ... a lot. Young people begin experimenting, though often they have to deal with feelings of guilt. Most of your life you were excluded from sexual life, and told to remain chaste for good reason. However, by the time you're in high school the newly awakened desires that nature builds into us are hard to be denied. High school age young people are often preoccupied with their appearance, and their self-confidence can be shaky. For those who suspect that they aren't as sexually attractive (irrespective of the reality), finding some alternative to the sexual game to subliminate their feelings is tempting. Some young people try to block out and avoid dealing with sex by becoming even more "straight-laced" than their family background might suggest. Trying to repress one's sexuality puts the rest of our emotional life "on the boil". You may see folks just as tender as a lamb one moment, and as angry as a banshee the next. Such folks sometimes have an exaggerated religious life ... Joan of Arc springs to mind.
High school students tend to be rebellious, confrontational, and against the authority still wielded by the adult world. Knowing the faults of their parents, students may judge them hypocrites and determine that THEY will never compromise or betray "rightness". What is "right", well its those values you learned from the time you were a babe in arms right up to this moment. For adolescents there is a continual struggle to fit a world that is increasingly perceived to be grey into the Black and White valued world of their childhoods. WE WILL BE BETTER THAN OUR PARENTS GENERATION. Such has been the rallying cry for high school aged young people since we ventured out onto the savanna. Can you see how this is operating with your GodSquad?
Other examples could be found, but these few may help you to understand where the GodSquad is coming from. You are experiencing the same pressures they are, you are just responding to stresses of growning up differently. Though at the moment your high school world seems the most important thing in the world, it is not. In a year or two, you will take the next step toward maturity. You will leave home, get a job or go off to college. Your emotional storm will begin to subside a little, and the good judgement your parents and society tried to instill will resurface. The idealism of these years will continue, perhaps for the rest of your life. However, life is often hard and compromise is the natural course for adults to take. Loss of idealism is not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it takes years to understand that. Some in the GodSquad may continue to be annoying zealots for the rest of their lives ... have pity for those who have to endure their self-righteousness. Some of the GodSquad may in a few years lead lives that society will condemn.
High school is four years, but if you live out your expected span you may live to be ninety. By the time you are 26, you will have forgotten the names and events that so preoccupied you at 16. Just wait, when you are in you thirties and forties, you will have a bunch of teenagers struggling to adjust to high school adolescence yourself. Good luck.
OK...I know what you mean. They don't try to shove it down anyone throats, but they do walk around as if they are somehow are better. There is an auora of pride around them.
So the Godsquad think they run this 'ere town aye? Sounds like a job for... THE LONE RANGER!
Yeeeeehaa!!
Away...away...away...away....and so to bed.
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