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Originally Posted by SamSofa330
Not to offend you or be rude but by all means why not go make a group of atheists and you guys meet up during a competition. And if you did don't you think that many other "groups" would feel alienated,"left-out", or even that same, "we're outnumbered, lets just join 'em so we aren't segregated" just my personal opinion though. (2 cents of info...)
And just one more penny, i don't see why we should say, "NO, you can't for a group because it will make people feel left out." If that were the case most every robotics group should also get "denied" because it is for a certain region of the country or some other way *exclusive* to an area or group of people. I mean don't you think the people in CA might feel left out cause they don't live in New England and therefore *can't* be apart of N.E.R.D.??? Just another thought...don't hold my 3 cents against me though...  |
It's a touchy subject. Honestly, I feel that FIRST is not the place for this sort of thing, and that one can meet other people of the same religion at specifically religious places, such as a church. Then again, not being very religious, there might be something I don't quite get about it. Geographical organizations like N.E.R.D. are slightly different from this. They meet because teams can have problems which involve their location, and can be solved by meeting with other teams from the same region (let's say state laws were changed with a bad result for your team). Individual members being christians, on the other hand, does not really create a FIRST or engineering related problem, and therefor shouldn't have an exclusive FIRST group based off of it.
(Just my opinion, sorry if anyone is offended at all)