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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

The atheist parents can be given the option of opting out of having their kids go. The kids can spend the time in the library, instead of forcing their beliefs on everyone else who WANTS to go.

Or they can homeschool their kids if they don’t like encountering religion in schools. They’re free to do so, just like it’s the option thrown in the face of every Christian parent who objects to the depraved content of public education today.


85 posted on 11/21/2012 6:41:20 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom

“Or they can homeschool their kids if they don’t like encountering religion in schools. They’re free to do so, just like it’s the option thrown in the face of every Christian parent who objects to the depraved content of public education today.”

Why any Christian would want to leave their children in the socialist government schools is beyond me. These public school pagan indoctrination factories do a great job of converting children from the Christian faith into the secular humanist faith. Wasn’t that always the ultimate intention?

I get tired of hearing my fellow Christians complain about public schooling and then defend sending their children there. Sending one’s children to public schools signifies that one is satisfied with the moral and educational status quo in society at large. Period. If that is indeed the case for the majority of Christians, we may end up one day looking back upon the present as the “good old days” when the executive branch was occupied by the “moderate” Obama and not some open totalitarian socialist leader. Because that is where we seem to be headed.

And shame on any Christian pastor who is “all in” for public schools (the majority of Christian pastors?)- just one more indication that modern churchianity is all about money and zero about preaching the Gospel & truth.


103 posted on 11/25/2012 11:09:47 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: metmom
It could be explained to the atheists that it is impossible for the government to resolve this in a religiously neutral manner. To be completely religiously neutral the schools would have to be shut down. Let the atheists pay for their **own** religiously NON-neutral godless schools. Within the week the Christian and Jewish children would have education programs organized by their churches and synagogues. The atheists would be out of luck.

If the children are forbidden to see the the movie all the children are being taught that Christmas is somehow shameful and must hidden out of public view ( like a bathroom activity).

It the children do see the movie, those who do go will inevitably subject the atheist children to a movie review of how great it was.

Neither is neutral in content or consequences and this is true for **thousands** of curriculum and school policy decisions in which a binary action must be taken.

When government supports school it always **establishes** non-neutral religious worldview. At the moment the atheists are winning.

105 posted on 11/26/2012 5:31:57 PM PST by wintertime
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