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To: Betaille

I'll give you two:

Forcing display of the (sectarian) Ten Commandments in public buildings and schools. Keep your god's rules out of my courthouse.

Changing science curricula to dilute the teaching of evolution. If your religion is so fragile that you need to prop it up in public schools with my tax dollars, and harm my kid's education in the process, you need a new religion.


4 posted on 06/22/2005 10:34:27 AM PDT by transhumanist (Science must trump superstition)
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To: transhumanist

"display of the (sectarian) Ten Commandments in public buildings and schools. Keep your god's rules out of my courthouse."

They are not sectarian. I am not even a Christian and I believe in them. By the way, he's your God too (I know that drives you nuts).

"Changing science curricula to dilute the teaching of evolution."

I don't know of a case in which education has been "diluted", and if you think that evolution is the end all explanation of creation then you are far more dogmatic and supersitious than any Christian.


6 posted on 06/22/2005 10:41:10 AM PDT by Betaille ("Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: transhumanist
Leaving aside disputing your case on the merits, what level of harm is realistically done, in comparison with any historical hardship? Suffering annoyance at having to look at the occasional Ten Commandments scroll in a courthouse? A child having to read a disclaimer about the limits of scientific knowledge regarding evolution?

These are very small potatoes in a country unsurpassed in protecting religious liberty and promoting scientific advancement.

10 posted on 06/22/2005 11:12:31 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: transhumanist

Someone so utterly Ignorant of the history of public education and the history of American Law ought NOT be spouting crap like you have done. Human law if it is to be valid must not contradict any general law of nature dictated by God Himself, nor violate Revealed/Divine Law of
Scripture. Is consistant with Blacksotne and what was taught of American Law by James Wilson. (who signed our
fundamental documents) OF the naitons oldest public schools
the vast majority were legally and rightly under the domain of the local church.Only when they became corrupted after the War between th eStates did they begin removing the Bible, and Christian moral principles from the classroom.


11 posted on 06/22/2005 11:16:26 AM PDT by StonyBurk
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