[Belial]

You mean ALLOWING them to go with their parent's permission? How DARE they!

No, I mean the school facilitating and excusing kids for a field trip centered around some fundie dogma...that's BIZARRE.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Fundie dogma? Buddy, you are the bizarre one here. In case you haven't noticed, there are over 1 billion followers of this "fundie dogma" religion.

[AppyPappy]

I mean the school facilitating and excusing kids for a field trip centered around some fundie dogma...

You know, Mr Hyperbole is not always your friend.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

No, I mean the school facilitating and excusing kids for a field trip centered around some fundie dogma...that's BIZARRE.

The only thing "BIZARRE" in all of this is the extent you anti-Christian "fanatics" will go to "demonize" them. Your "fervor" and "spirit" in critiquing the actions of these people you'll never meet is truely comical at best,

strangly obessive at worst.

[Dataman]

The appropriately named Belial: No, I mean the school facilitating and excusing kids for a field trip centered around some fundie dogma...that's BIZARRE.

I like to collect old history books and books that illustrate how Christianity was part of the normal school day before 1960. Last week end I found a book called Magic Melodies for Public Schools by L.M. Gordon, copyright 1892. The original price of the hardcover was 30 cents. On page 29 there is a song called Morning Praise which begins like this:

God of my life, my morning song To Thee I cheerful raise,

It is followed by a song, Hear Us, Holy Jesus and later there is Evening Song:

Let us look to God above, To bless us as we go.

Although there are only 3 songs out of 95 that seem to be overtly acknowledging God, it is more concrete proof that the secularist view of "separation of church and state" is of recent manufacture.