A former student of Bogan High School in Chicago was awarded $150,000 after she sued the school, claiming that she was forced to participate in a Hindu meditation ritual. Outraged that she was obligated to go along with a religion that was not her own, this individual (who has never walked a day in the life of an atheist’s shoes) decided that this egregious act deserved financial compensation, and a dipshit judge agreed.

In the lawsuit, Green alleges the “Transcendental Meditation” program was held during school hours, and students were required to participate in an initiation ceremony called a “Puja” — an “expression of gratitude” to the dead founders of the practice.

 

During the “Puja,” instructors chanted words in Sanskrit containing “statements recognizing the power possessed by various Hindu deities and invitations to those same Hindu deities to channel their powers” without telling students what they meant, the suit states.

So let me just reiterate this so that you don’t choke to death on your own bile: a school mandated prayer session violated a woman’s core beliefs. Who knew that it was possible to get such a windfall from having a foreign religion shoved down your throat?

Now, because of how precedence works in the legal system, I am strongly encouraging my fellow atheists in Illinois to use this case as a springboard for their own forced religiosity. How many school programs have discriminated against non-believers in similar ways? I agree that this mandated prayer session didn’t belong in school, and that this should apply to all religions. Of course, for that to occur, Christians would have to stop being a bunch of crybaby hypocrites who think the rules don’t apply to them. Fat chance that will ever happen.