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School apologizes for burning New Testament
Jersualem Post ^
| December 25, 2001
| Shoshana Kordova
Posted on 12/24/2001 4:49:53 PM PST by dlt
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posted on
12/24/2001 4:49:53 PM PST
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dlt
To: dlt
bumpity bumpity bump
To: dlt
The teacher emphasized that the book-burning was an anti-missionary activity and not an anti-Christian one. . . I see. All Christians have to do is stop doing what makes them Christians and everything is cool.
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12/24/2001 5:01:38 PM PST
by
LarryLied
To: dlt
I think it shows it's always good to fire someone like you and your associate, especially while you and your country are basking in U.S. aid. You have made Hitler smile with approval. Well done, ally. Perhaps you would be happier seeking handouts from your surrounding nations. Silence? Just shows you what our "friends" are teaching their children...in SCHOOL.
To: dlt
"We obviously have a missionary problem," said Klein. LOL. Said kinda like we might say, "We obviously have a drug problem." Good grief.
MM
To: LarryLied
"Everybody knows we made a mistake, (yikes, we got caught)" said Jordana Klein, spokeswoman for Sha'alei Torah. "We wouldn't do it again (cause they're watching us now and we might get caught again). We don't think it's the right thing to do (get caught, I mean)."
To: dlt
Oh boy the Jews just handed the Democrats a wonderful wapon to use against them.
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To: dlt
"In principle, the ministry condemns book-burning as an educational act," she said."What a bunch of Clintonian weasel-words. I suppose the ministry does NOT condemn book-burning as an ADMINISTRATIVE act, or an HISTORIC act but only as an EDUCATIONAL act? Boy! That sure clears it up for me, yezzir! Some of those old Nazi tactics sure die hard, don't they?
Lets modify the scenario slightly. Say you are sending your kid to a private school here in America that stresses Christian, Conservative, Free Enterprise, traditional American values. A group comes to your community and starts handing out copies of the Communist Manifesto to your kids as a means of encouraging membership in the Communist party. Would it be as wrong for one of the teachers to burn a copy of the Communist Manifesto?
To: dlt
Pogo's Deacon Mushrat said, "There's nothing quite so beautiful as a brightly burning book."
So long as it's done in private, I presume.
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12/24/2001 5:39:14 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Libertarianize the GOP
Would it be as wrong for one of the teachers to burn a copy of the Communist Manifesto? Do you suppose a more responsible way to deal with it might be to compare the ten planks of the Manifesto and explain how communism IS affecting them. Even YOUNG kids can understand such loss of freedom. (If only teachers would do so).
To: dlt
Rev. Ray Lockhart, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Trust of the Anglican Church, said burning the New Testament so publicly was "going over the top somewhat." This is what passes in our Episcopalian community as a forceful statement of principal.
To: Ridin' Shotgun
I would agree that explaining why is a better alternative, I just wanted to offer a different perspective.
To: dlt
the book-burning was an anti-missionary activity and not an anti-Christian one
; "It was appropriate to burn the New Testament in private,"; The teacher said that if missionary material were found in the school again, it would be thrown into the garbage rather than publicly burned. Oh my! Its hard to tell the difference between the Taliban and Israel with this sort of law and logic in play. I have always been offended by a religious symbol (Star of David) on the side of police cars, tanks, fighter aircraft, and ambulances in Israel. Hell, democrats do this sort of thing in this country all the time. But at this crucial junction marking the safety and life of people around the world, one would think that any thinking person would be more interested in slowing the flames of hatred instead of fanning them.
Israel is indeed threatened, and has been since its inception. I am a Christian Yet I will always defend her. If some Jews become Christian along the way or some Christians become Jews along the way so what! This is not a religious war between Christians and Jews. What this is, is simply a need and a choice or each man on earth to find his/her own path through life. We are all only trying to raise families, live decent lives. Every really good Jew should be happy when someone among them finds the path to heaven.
Israel needs to back off with the religious police approach and spend more time and effort on (they already do) defending their right to exist. The hate groups in the Islamic factions need to be eliminated. This is where the real effort needs to be and where the real effort needs to be focused. Forget about some high school kid that might be reading the New Testament in the bathroom be happy it wasnt a Playboy.
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.
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12/24/2001 5:53:37 PM PST
by
Dale 1
To: Libertarianize the GOP
I just couldn't ever agree that burning information of any kind is a logical solution to anything. Refute it. Debate it. Argue it into oblivion, but the reactionary destruction of any kind of literature seems to me to be an affirmation that there's something in the material that threatens a dogma and I reject dogma of any kind.
To: dlt
This post perfectly illustrates the Christian, Jewish and Muslim triangle. The Jews just want to be left alone. The Christians are friendly, but meddlesome. The Muslims want to die trying kill every non-muslim and get his share of the available heavenly virgins.
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12/24/2001 6:02:18 PM PST
by
Pamlico
To: Libertarianize the GOP
Would it be as wrong for one of the teachers to burn a copy of the Communist Manifesto?Good question. Seeing as how Communism is a religion of cult.
To: dlt
"The teacher said: 'God sent it and He gave us the privilege, and we'll be able to burn the New Testament," said Ariel Lesnick, 11, who is in the class.......The teacher emphasized that the book-burning was an anti-missionary activity and not an anti-Christian one, Lesnick said......."It was appropriate to burn the New Testament in private," wrote Spector in his ruling. He cited traditional and modern rabbis, including Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who wrote that he had burned missionary texts, which he called "books of incitement and brainwashing." Such burning is permissible even if the texts include the name of God, Spector said.Gee whiz! Goebbels would be impressed with the "logic" in this rationalization.
To: dlt
The teacher said that if missionary material were found in the school again, it would be thrown into the garbage rather than publicly burned, said Lesnick. Anyone doubts that a teacher in a Christian school wouldn't throw Jewish/Muslim or any other missionary material into the garbage?
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