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To: Team Cuda; wintertime

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>> “ If I’m not misreading it, your belief is that the most important element of schooling is the religious portion and if a school does not include a large dose of religion it is a failure and leads to godlessness. I will point out that we have had public schools in this country since before we were a country, and the 1800s and early 1900s did not appear to be a particularly godless time.” <<

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And now I will point out what you appear to have deliberately left out:

Until the mid 1800s the US government printed Bibles for the schools, and that Bible was more than half of the curriculum, when our schools were turning out great men.
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61 posted on 05/31/2015 4:23:00 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
I would agree with your post...but....by my grandmother's day ( born 1894) government schooling was essentially secular and generically lukewarm at those times it did nod in God's direction.

What does Christ do with the lukewarm? Answer: He spits them out of His mouth!

Only in a private setting can children receive the non-generic and fully warmed up religious worldview ( godless or God-centered) that most closely supports the values taught in the home.

Government should have never flopped its big hairy toe over the line into the business of schooling. Why? Answer: Because education can never be religiously, culturally, and politically neutral. Such a philosophic state of neutrality is impossible in the mind of any sentient human. Those political factions with the greatest clout will get to control the non-neutral worldview of the next generation of voters.

In the 19th century Protestant Christians had the most political clout. Today, it is the secular atheists.

63 posted on 05/31/2015 10:13:12 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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