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To: wintertime
Rearing righteous children (who are now parents) is not selfish. And...It has done something for our nation.

I won't argue that, for you are correct. On the other hand, you would serve your Nation in a broader capacity if you pushed tirelessly for religious neutral school as well as religious neutral governance in general.

One of the most important points that brought me into this conversation is categorically ignored by conservatives. People must interact in their communities in order to affect outcome. Bitching and blogging have no affect. Voting has no affect. We MUST provide the leadership in our local governmental facilities, not leave those posts for leftist extremists to fill. Why is this such a difficult point to get across?

90 posted on 10/02/2015 10:49:24 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
It is impossible to have a religiously, culturally, or politically neutral school. Impossible! Such a philosophic state of religious, cultural, and political neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient human, and certainly not in the policies or curriculum of any school.

It is for this reason government schooling ( especially K-12 schooling) must be abolished.

If I were to lobby for a worldview that I personally would approve, I would be lobbying to impose my worldview on other people's children and advocating that my neighbors pay for it. This is **not** conservative.

91 posted on 10/02/2015 4:46:02 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: GingisK
I agree with interacting with the community. What is needed is changed hearts and minds.

Personally,..... my husband and I served as Spanish speaking Christian missionaries for seven years to the Spanish community in our area. ( We went to Costa Rica for six months just to learn Spanish. We lived with Costa Rican families and attended language school. We did not travel.)

Recently, we moved and we have been asked by our church to be “super-mentors” to two women who have recently be released from prison and a man from Iraq who was tortured and suffers from PTSD.

I think we are doing something.

92 posted on 10/02/2015 4:55:55 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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