Kid suspended for wearting t-shirt with "Life is wasted without Jesus"

Yeah, they said that it's in the wording, so a shirt that says "Real men love cats" is offensive to those men who don't love cats? Because a male reader who happens to believe that dogs are better than cats is judged by the wearer as not a "real man". If you were reading the shirt, would you be personally offended, though? I mean, if you don't feel you're wasting your life away even if you don't believe in Jesus, would the message of the shirt matter to you? Like, would it matter to you what someone else says about the way you live your life? Thanks for yor response and your update as well.

Whether or not I, personally, would be offended is not at issue. I gather, from reading the News report, that what was really offensive was that the student had been asked NOT to wear the T-shirt and had deliberately disobeyed his school's instructions. In other words, he was suspended NOT for wearing the T-shirt (and wearing it once or occasionally might not have been construed as offensive) but for his pig-headed and inflammatory attitude towards authority. I don't suppose, for a minute, that, when he first wore the T-Shirt, he thought very hard about the way that the message might have been construed as offensive. It was only once the semantics had been pointed out to him that he continued to wear it for ten days in a row (and very possibly not washing it, either). In my view, someone who states (or implies), either verbally or on a T-Shirt that my life is wasted without Jesus needs to think seriously about the real meaning of Christianity before he does so. I believe that there are too many occasions when the over-application of 'political correctness' becomes plain silly. Substituting "Happy Holidays" for "Happy Christmas" and banning the use of Christmas trees, Santas and Snowmen (none of which, incidentally, have a religious significance) is just bureaucracy gone mad. I shall continue to wish my Jewish, Muslim and Hindi friends (and those of any other persuasion also) a 'Happy Christmas' but I shall not do so in protest but rather in the spirit of the occasion.

This is ridiculous, have we all become a bunch of silly little spoilt brats, to take offence at the slightest remark that can possibly be construed as an insult? The greatest good manners is not to never give offence but never to take it. Those that are offended by such an innocuous slogan need to grow up and the administration should not pander to their emotion instability The second two interpretations given are not intended as insults but rather as advice and should be taken in that light. Honi soit qui mal y pense, (Shamed is he who thinks evil of it) all the best urban

Oh yeah! That would be a criminal investigator's worst nightmare. =)

I don't see the message as offensive either. Though, I wouldn't call them atheofascists because I don't really know if they really are. But maybe they were just extremely sensitive that they think everything is about them that when they saw the shirt, they felt the message was pertaining to them personally. It just snowballed into something bigger and shed light into more issues.

I don't think there isn't any difference. Even if the shirt states something that a Christian would believe, I don't think it is meant to insult or demean someone else's beliefs. It's just merely stating an opinion. I remember a quotation that says "you have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to not listen to it". Why won't they just do that? Thanks for your response!