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To: Citizen Blade; metmom
Would you object to a school in a heavily Muslim area having teachers lead in Koran reading and prayer during school hours?

Good luck with that one. I asked the same question a few days ago and never got an answer. I think it must be because the answer can only be that it's okay to have Bible study because the Bible is true, but it's not okay to have Koran studies because the Koran is false. The problem is that stating it that way makes its constitutional untenability obvious, so they just don't answer the question at all.

282 posted on 08/26/2008 11:09:39 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical; Citizen Blade; wintertime
Good luck with that one. I asked the same question a few days ago and never got an answer.

I never saw it. Was it me you asked?

If freedom of religion is going to be allowed, then that's going to happen. Do I like it? No.

You are correct, islam is false. The objection I have to islam is not religious as much as political. It promotes jihad and IIRC, promoting insurrection against the government is illegal.

As far as teacher led anything reading and prayer, as long as its not mandatory, I don't see what anyone could do about it.

There is no possibility of teaching no religion because the *no god* position is a belief system in and of itself and qualifies as a religion by definition. If freedom of religion is going to be granted then it must be granted without across the board without respect to any religion, but that is not possible because no matter what decision they make, they're endorsing and teaching some kind of belief system.

It's the ultimate catch 22.

The only solution is the one wintertime keeps proposing; abolish the public education system altogether. Let the parents have their tax money back which would allow them to be able to afford to direct the education of their children as they see fit.

286 posted on 08/26/2008 3:05:39 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

How do you make the leap from ID to Bible Study? (As if we needed more proof this has nothing to do with education/science!)


288 posted on 08/26/2008 3:18:42 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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