Opportunistic Bastards

Its my final year of high school. Thirteen years of my life spent learning, understanding, crafting an identity. It is truly amazing how a person is altered over such a long time. As humans we are sophisticated enough to create and apply a social identity. Those identities are so crucial to the individualism of a person and they give a person knowledge influence and inherently power. I recently received an invitation  to my high school Baccalaureate. A high school ceremony I am very unfamiliar with and in fact, have never heard of in my life. The invitation reads "This is a traditional event that honors you, as a graduating senior by taking a few moments to reflect on spiritual matters. This is an interdenominational event." Right. "Interdenominational." Even though the entire gig is being run by the local Youth For Christ organization. Well not all of us graduating seniors are "youth for christ. Not all of us are even remotely "spiritual." I hate to be so cynical, but based on the questions I've asked regarding the event and what similar events I have observed, it would appear as just another feeble attempt by a church to impose their religious ideals upon our almost made up, yet still impressionable minds. It's almost insulting to us as the coming future of the planet to march  into our school, a place exceedingly more sacred than any church, temple, or mosque strutting passed the wall between church and state and try to cloud our vision. Almost as a last ditch effort to perpetuate their childish nonsense. I suppose some people simply overlook the fact that even as young adults, we are still finding ourselves maybe they know that, maybe they know that the only way to survive their religion is to feed it to the defenseless children.