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To: tacticalogic
(There are only 2 possible ways to think about this issue. The idea that there are only 2 possible alternatives, or refusing to let yourself get painted into that corner....Tacticalogic)
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Ok....So, you disagree with me. Then please describe for us the following:

1) Describe an educational setting that is simultaneously godless and God-centered. ( I claim that this is impossible.)

2) Please describe the curriculum and policies of a religiously neutral school. ( I will have great fun with that one. It is axiomatic. A religiously neutral education can not exist.)

3) Please describe a school that is something other than godless or God-centered. ( I claim that this is impossible.)

Evolution is merely one example among thousands in which government establishes the religious worldview of some and crushes that of others. The only possible solution is to get government out of education.

86 posted on 07/11/2008 10:57:25 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: wintertime

I disagree with the claim that the only two possibilities are that either everything must be explicitly theological and religiously centered or it has to be explicitly atheistic. You’re arguing that any time we’re not teaching people about God, we’re teaching them to be atheists, and I’m not buying it. If you’re looking to build any kind of consensus based on that it’s not going to happen. If you just like hearing yourself prostheletize then it’s a perfectly good argument.


92 posted on 07/11/2008 11:11:43 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: wintertime
Evolution is merely one example among thousands in which government establishes the religious worldview of some and crushes that of others.

Which specific religions have been "crushed" by the United States government?

96 posted on 07/11/2008 11:21:33 AM PDT by atlaw
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