Posted on 08/13/2008 9:44:45 AM PDT by Sopater
A federal judge has ruled the University of California can deny course credit to Christian high school graduates who have been taught with textbooks that reject evolution and declare the Bible infallible, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles ruled Friday that the school's review committees did not discriminate against Christians because of religious viewpoints when it denied credit to those taught with certain religious textbooks, but instead made a legitimate claim that the texts failed to teach critical thinking and omitted important science and history topics.
Charles Robinson, the university's vice president for legal affairs, told the Chronicle that the ruling "confirms that UC may apply the same admissions standards to all students and to all high schools without regard to their religious affiliations."
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Excuse me? I stand by my claims.
Google "Dominion theology" and check out some of the articles. Samples:
Dominion Theology is a grouping of theological systems with the common belief that society should be governed exclusively by the law of God as codified in the Bible, to the exclusion of secular law. The two main streams of Dominion Theology are Christian Reconstructionism and Kingdom Now theology. Though these two differ greatly in their general theological orientation (the first is strongly Reformed and Neo-Calvinistic, the second is Charismatic), they share a postmillenial vision in which the kingdom of God will be established on Earth through political and (in some cases) even military means, preparing the way for or enabling the return of Christ.All strains of Dominion Theology are small minorities, and are rejected by most mainstream Christians as quite radical. However, Dominion Theology is seen by some as a subset of Dominionism, a term used by some social scientists and journalists to describe a theological form of political ideology, which they claim has broadly influenced the Christian Right in the United States, Canada, and Europe, within Protestant Christian evangelicalism and fundamentalism. Source
Its most common form, Dominionism, represents one of the most extreme forms of Fundamentalist Christianity thought. Its followers, called Dominionists, are attempting to peacefully convert the laws of United States so that they match those of the Hebrew Scriptures. They intend to achieve this by using the freedom of religion in the US to train a generation of children in private Christian religious schools. Later, their graduates will be charged with the responsibility of creating a new Bible-based political, religious and social order. One of the first tasks of this order will be to eliminate religious choice and freedom. Their eventual goal is to achieve the "Kingdom of God" in which much of the world is converted to Christianity. They feel that the power of God's word will bring about this conversion. No armed force or insurrection will be needed; in fact, they believe that there will be little opposition to their plan. People will willingly accept it. All that needs to be done is to properly explain it to them.All religious organizations, congregations etc. other than strictly Fundamentalist Christianity would be suppressed. Nonconforming Evangelical, main line and liberal Christian religious institutions would no longer be allowed to hold services, organize, proselytize, etc. Society would revert to the laws and punishments of the Hebrew Scriptures. Any person who advocated or practiced other religious beliefs outside of their home would be tried for idolatry and executed. Blasphemy, adultery and homosexual behavior would be criminalized; those found guilty would also be executed. At that time that this essay was originally written, this was the only religious movement in North America of which we were aware which advocates genocide for followers of minority religions and non-conforming members of their own religion. Since then, we have learned of two conservative Christian pastors in Texas who have advocated the execution of all Wiccans. Ralph Reed, the executive director of the conservative public policy group the Christian Coalition has criticized Reconstructionism as "an authoritarian ideology that threatens the most basic civil liberties of a free and democratic society." Source
Your 'hearing' is flawed.
All of the layers of which you speak were created by the massive erruption of water and magma that occured at the beginning of the flood, and the formation of today's surface of the Earth was essentially complete within about 50 - 100 years as trapped water released and formed the large canyons and valleys. The rest is still going on today, as land slides continue to occur.
The observed rate of those events, and their magnitude is irrefutable proof that the Earth cannot be more than 8000 years old, and more probably, slightly less than 6000.
The "small comet" bombardment is another proof that is in agreement with those estimates.
Thus you have proven that you have not read any significant portion of the Bible.
Your claims are absurd.
Could you expand on this? To whom is the “them” referring?
And..The “farm” is a metaphor for what?
Even you should be able to see that these people are fools that are in no way guided by the word, or will of God.
Cordially,
My claims are less absurd than yours. Thank you.
Where did all the ‘great flood’ water go?
Opinion not based on fact alert.
http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_we_are_loosing_our_children.htm
"We are losing our children. Research indicates that 70%of teens who are involved in a church youth group will stop attending church within two years of their high school graduation. Think about that statement. It addresses only teenagers who attend church and participate in the youth group. What does that suggest about those teens who may attend church but do not take part in the youth group, or who do not go to church at all?"
"In a talk at Southwestern Seminary Josh McDowell noted that less than 1/3 of today's youth attend church. If he is right and 67% do not go to church and then we lose 70% of those who do, that means that within two years of finishing high school only 10% of young Americans will attend church."
http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_20050404-salt-and-light.htm
The reality of the situation is that very little Christian witnessing is ever done by children in public schools to begin with. As with everything else in life, there are of course some exceptions to the rule.
Without question, the lion's share of converting and witnessing is accomplished through the public education curriculum, peer pressure from other children -- most of whom are non-Christian -- and educators who implant (either subtly or obviously and conscientiously or unconscientiously) their humanistic, neo-pagan or new age doctrines within the minds and hearts of Christian children. These children, I might add, are a captive audience with little or no chance to speak up or opportunity to rebut their teachers.
The research data on the success of the public schools in indoctrinating Christian youth with humanistic or neo-pagan worldviews is overwhelming. The Nehemiah Institute's worldview PEERS test shows that 83-percent of the children from committed Christian families in public schools adopt a secular humanist or Marxist socialist worldview. At the SBC's 2002 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported, among other disturbing things, that 88-percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at age 18. Barna Research reports that only 9-percent of born-again teens believe in moral absolutes, and more than half believe that Jesus sinned while He was on earth. We believe the fact that 80-percent of Christian families send their children to public schools is a prime reason for this lost legacy.
The passage states:
He bends his tail like a cedar
That doesn't say that the creature has a tail that looks like a cedar, just that it moves (i.e., sways) like a cedar tree. Elephant and hippo tails are like that.
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Could you expand on this? To whom is the “them” referring?
And..The “farm” is a metaphor for what?
The line comes from a song written after WWI. The song, How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm After They've Seen Paree? (1919), was written by Lewis and Young and the music was by Walter Donaldson (1893-1947).
It refers to the problem of keeping soldiers returning from the war in Europe working on the family farms after they saw the wide world (i.e., Paris).
I hope this helps you understand my post.
I would say that creation science is defined by its claim that phenomena are constantly being stirred by forces from beyond.
Newton was among the first to formalize the proposition that the behavior of physical phenomena follows constant rules.
The observed rate of those events, and their magnitude is irrefutable proof that the Earth cannot be more than 8000 years old, and more probably, slightly less than 6000.
The "small comet" bombardment is another proof that is in agreement with those estimates.
This is such nonsense its not even worth responding to.
Suffice it to say that you are probably the only person in the world that believes this stuff.
That must be the reason that you responded.
"Suffice it to say that you are probably the only person in the world that believes this stuff."
Had you followed the information that has been posted here over the years, you would be aware that about 2/3 of the people of this country believe these facts.
That's the point of each state essentially running its own affairs (within the context of the Constitution). If Californians want to fund public universities, that is their choice.
The truth is that the Secular Humanists would **kill** Christians if the could. They just can’t get away with it...(yet). Yes, they really do hate Christians that much.
Wintertime, I say this not out of malice but actual concern- you are starting to derail with comments like this. Do you live in fear of your liberal and atheist neighbors?
These people are breaking the First Commandment!
They are taking the Lord's name in vain. They are falsely using God's name to justify action and philosophy that is **not** Godly.
By the way, Secular Humanists break the same First Commandment with their religion when they oppress Christians.
Secular Humanists use the use the name of their false god of atheistic materialism to oppress others by keeping them out of their colleges, taxing them to support their religion in our government schools, and keeping them from being hired for jobs.
Get it!
Do you live in fear of your liberal and atheist neighbors?
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No...Not **yet**. They just can’t get away with it...(yet).
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