Posted on 04/18/2008 11:30:18 PM PDT by Exton1
Would this not send a strong message to support Christianity?
Would it not also be a counter to the homosexual “Day of Silence?”
Any comments?
Religion should be kept out of schools, period. The publik skool system has a hard enough time teaching kids how to count to ten. They preach that homosexuality is normal and decent. They teach that Al Gore's vision of the world's climate is factual and real.
What makes you think that religion can be discussed with any degree of fairness and truth?
I agree. Parents can send their kids to religious schools or homeschool. Public schools would open a pandora’s box having an official Bible day. But if kids want to bring a Bible to read during free time, that should be okay. Unfortunately, the schools HAVE embraced the religions of homosexuality and globull warming.
We got bigger fish to fry in public schools.
I am a Christian and I don't believe intelligent design should be on the agenda either.
God wants us by faith.
I need no proof and neither do my Children.
Where is it written? Don't say the Constitution, because when I went to school, we had the same Constitution, but also a daily recitation of the Lord's Prayer. Who could imagine! ... In New Jersey!
There should be no official religious activities in the public schools. This includes Bible study or anything of the sort.
I see no reason why students shouldn't be allowed to bring their own Bibles to read during quiet time. Unfortunately there are too many people who would find that too provocative and would claim that their civil rights were being threatened simply by being in the vicinity of one.
So much for liberty...
I never claimed it was written anywhere. I was expressing my opinion.
This guy I know says we shouldn’t go into public and make a big deal about showing off our faith and piety. He once said:
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
YMMV, I guess.
I’m against it.
I don’t want there to be a “take a quran to school day” either.
This is just politicizing religion, which I think is the opposite effect of what you really want. Personally, I have a low opinion of anyone who takes their sacred religion and uses it like a rotten fish just to get attention. Every day should be bring a Bible to _____ (fill in the blank) if that is how you live your life. This country was founded on religious freedom, so by all means live it that way, but please don’t politicize it and don’t try to force others to politicize it as well.
At the time, there were very few who were not Christian. That is no longer the case. Demographics have changed. There also were not all the nondiscrimination laws there are today. Or the ACLU.
This gives a sociological explanation for the change in practice, but it does not provide a legal or logical explanation for the SCOTUS decision that this practice was no longer, or never had been, constitutional.
This decision represents a complete reversal of the intent of the 1st amendment, which was originally that the federal government not impose a standard on local religious practice.
Better would be a National don’t attend Union NEA run Schools day.
“At the time, there were very few who were not Christian. That is no longer the case. Demographics have changed. There also were not all the nondiscrimination laws there are today. Or the ACLU.”
The more we change America, the more it changes. At one time we simply imposed our culture on ourselves.
Our country, our rules.
Don’t subject the kids to harassment and embarassment.
Maybe we should go back to those that signed the constitution. Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) one of the youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence, a distinguished physican and scientist who held the first chemistry professorship in America, wrote his reasons “Why the Bible in our Public Schools.” He also wrote what the consequences if the Bible is not taught in our public schools. We are seeing those consquences very clearly in these times. (We despertly need true history of our nation
taught as never before!!!!!
You need a perspective adjustment......
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Luk 12:8 “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,
Luk 12:9 but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
So, this is about having the natural God-given right to show and live out, and not be required to stuff and stifle the very reason for the life of a Christian, his enduring, vital and irrepressible FAITH.
I think your calling the LORD of CREATION, “this guy” is really low and disrespectful because you bring him down to your level with a familiarity that diminishes him rather than making him more approachable, which may have been your purpose...
so.
Trying to bring off a “National Bring A Bible To School Day” would be a good test to see how far our nation has advanced into Godless Communism, the framework of the New World Order.
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