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To: Jacquerie

The original point was that the shooting was related to not having God in school. I pointed out that being God fearing (here I interpret Christian) has no correlation to murder rates. Next the post was that atheists have killed so many millions. I then pointed out that Christians also killed so many millions. Just like atheists won’t claim Stalin or Mao, you are within your rights to not claim Hitler (even though his was a “Christian” nation full of Catholics and Protestants who saw no issue with rounding up Jews). Of course you can self select a group that has never done anything wrong eventually.

The point remains that this shooting has not been proven to be related to lack of established Christianity in the schools (by the way Christianity is a personal decision for students and a significant number are Christian many of whom pray and read their Bibles in school - both perfectly legal in our country. My daughters both do in their school). They even have Christian rallies on the track field.
I am particularly offended by any Christian who states a link between something like this tragedy and lack of established Christianity in schools. I am not saying it is the fault of Christians. I am a Christian.


15 posted on 12/16/2012 1:55:18 PM PST by exhaustguy
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To: exhaustguy
The original point was that the shooting was related to not having God in school

Incorrect. The column was written prior to the massacre. YOU made the correlation in your first post.

Somehow, you as a Christian(?) associate mass killing with Christianity.

Your silly "analysis" connecting low homicide rates with atheism were pathetic, and could be refuted by the worst student in a high school statistics class.

16 posted on 12/16/2012 2:13:05 PM PST by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
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To: exhaustguy; Jacquerie
The original point was that the shooting was related to not having God in school.

Hogwash. How many school massacres were there in 1950, 1960, 1970 or even 1980? Progressively God and any mention of him have been forces out of our schools and public square by atheists and secularist. They can't even sing a traditional Christmas carol for goodness sake. Our schools are teaching as young as kindergarten to accept homosexuality, elementary school kids start learning about condoms, high schools have their 'health' clinics. Pull your head out of the hole you firmly have it planted in.

BTW - reading bible perfectly 'legal'. I couldn't do it when I was in high school in 70's and kids today are forbidden to even give a candy cane with a christian message associated with it on school property. When was the last time Gideon representative was allowed to pass out bibles hmmm.

18 posted on 12/16/2012 2:31:04 PM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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