But...Godless isn’t religiously neutral, either. In a godlessly secular classroom the children must learn to think and reason godlessly. This isn’t neutral in content or consequences.

Fundamentally,...It is **impossible** to have a religiously neutral education because such a philosophic state of neutrality can not exist in the mind of any human.

Government schooling is ( and always has been) a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education in the nation. The goal should be complete separation of school and state.

21 posted on 07/26/2014 9:49:45 AM PDT by wintertime

To: Benito Cereno

Please read my post #21.

It is impossible to have a religiously neutral school.

22 posted on 07/26/2014 9:51:49 AM PDT by wintertime

Which I concur with.

23 posted on 07/26/2014 10:08:02 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)

To: Faith Presses On

“Any prayers led by teachers at school-sponsored events must be stopped immediately,” the letter, addressed to Superintendent Daniel Tanoos, read.

Or else... what?

24 posted on 07/26/2014 6:39:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

How is this not prohibiting the free expression of religion?

It's merely a THREAT.

Which I thought is ILLEGAL...

25 posted on 07/26/2014 6:40:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

26 posted on 07/26/2014 6:41:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, which predated our constitution, set aside land for schools and declared:

Even earlier...

Mayflower Compact

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

27 posted on 07/26/2014 6:42:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Which I concur with.

Grammar Police Alert!!!

A preposition is nothing to end a sentence with.

Maybe...

https://www.google.com/search?q=A+preposition+is+nothing+to+end+a+sentence+with.&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475&gws_rd=ssl

28 posted on 07/26/2014 6:45:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

“A practice up with I will not put!”

29 posted on 07/26/2014 6:48:02 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")

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