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To: inquest

You're right; ID is used as a tool to get Christianity into government schools, and there are those who object.


124 posted on 12/31/2005 4:00:55 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: SuzyQue
ID is used as a tool to get Christianity into government schools

No more than evolution is a tool to get atheism into schools, as you illustrated at #114.

135 posted on 12/31/2005 4:42:43 PM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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To: SuzyQue

Really, the question that should be asked is why Religion *cant* be taught in schools - not as dogma, but at least as philosophy and theology. The ignorance of some students in secularized schools to basic Christianity is sadly very real.

This thread alone has brought in Aristotle, Descartes, Einstein, Gandhi, Jesus ... just a few of the top 50 men of the history of ideas.

Rather than an "ID" trojan horse, how about 'a history of ideas', where the Christian philosophers get a crack at some exposure...

Is it *really* "unconstitutional" to tell students that Aristotle believed in a 'First Mover'? Is it really unconstitutional to have them read Aquinas or Saint Augustine? Why?


226 posted on 01/01/2006 8:45:25 PM PST by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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