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like a smudge on a light bulb
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 27, 2006 at 11:41 AM
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and speaking of Christianity
do you figure if kids were taght it, they would remain good Christians?
how come 20% of the U.S. poulation is not religious and another 5% is of a religion other than Christianity?
how come on 75% declares to be Christian?
like for instance Mormons, Amish, etc.
somebody here -- let me try to remember who -- said that the large majority of those who declare themselves Christians really aren't.
you are so blind to the fact that Christianity, like any other religion, is so varied and that many beliefs of its divisions are quite disparate from others within the same system.
and the number of nonreligious is growing by great numbers.
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 27, 2006 at 11:39 AM
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janeybaby
love ya kid
you mean our kids don't knokw a single thing about Chrisianity?
you mean they don't go to church?
isn't this a "Christian Nation"?
so they need to be taught Christianity is school?
you mean if your kid needed to know something about Christianity you couldn't send little Dick or Jane to the nearest church?
or . . . .
maybe that nearest church doesn't teahc your brand of Christianity, so you wouldn't want little Dickey or Janey to to their to learn about Christianity because it's relly not.
maybe that's it?
huh janeybaby?
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 27, 2006 at 11:35 AM
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that's the point i was making
let's do this again -- what is the golden rule? "do unto other as you would have others dounto you."
so --
wouldn't you want Muslim kids learning about Christianity?
I think it's a good for our kids to learn about mohammedanism -- so they won't have the same warped ideas about it as most of you posting and commenting here do.
and do you read any of the Moslem bloggers here? -alt.muslim has been on almost every since Blogit started. He has som e very goo dthings to say.
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 27, 2006 at 11:32 AM
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this doesn't surprise me at all, and yes, where is the ACLU??
whatever happened to the rights of the average "Joe American" or "Joe Canadian"??....disappearing (our rights that is) one by one....
posted by
Rumor
on May 25, 2006 at 6:51 AM
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And Xenox, as usual, is more than a little off the mark.
For one thing, kids in general don't know a whole heck of a lot about Christianity. And for another, when you make the study of a religion fun -- as was done in this California classroom -- it's a whole heck of a lot more palatable than your basic study of religion -- at least for a middle school child. So they spend a week having a blast learning about the Muslim religion, and two days studying Christianity without all the props.
And yes, why isn't the ACLU having its usual cow regarding the separation of church and state?
posted by
JanesOpinion
on May 24, 2006 at 6:29 PM
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Frightening post, Corbin.
And ariel, I fear you are right. Europe as I remember it from studying there years ago will eventually turn into an extension of the Islamic world. And the US may not be far behind.
I wonder what this country will look like in 20 years.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on May 24, 2006 at 6:25 PM
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What troubles me is where is.......
where is the ACLU and their Liberal ilk on this????
Were the situation reversed, the lawyers would be lined up to fight this.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on May 24, 2006 at 11:22 AM
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xeno......
Tell us where Muslim countries are also teaching about Christianity in schools??? Since the posession of a Bible in most of their countries is punishable with a prison term or worse???
Enlighen us......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on May 24, 2006 at 11:17 AM
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Corbin
WE in the west have neglected, derided and deliberately destroyed our own liberal democratic values and Judaeo/Christian heritage, for a long, long time.
Maybe such flaccid and pleasure-besotted political systems as ours , riven as they are with internicine strife, don't deserve to survive. They certainly won't, the way we're going on.
For demographic reasons alone, much of Europe will cease to exist in its present form within a few decades. It will be Muslim, as no doubt, will many American states. And it will have been our negligence that has brought it about.
posted by
ariel70
on May 24, 2006 at 11:13 AM
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Why does this trouble you, sahib?
posted by
redwood
on May 24, 2006 at 10:19 AM
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Corbin_Dallas, Thank you for sharing this. I would say, "What is this world coming to?" but I'm afraid that I already know. I have always been in favor of culture appreciation classes but this is going too far.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 24, 2006 at 8:22 AM
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Corbin,
I believe that those who think this is okay do not realize what they are promoting...While they may say that they are doing this with hopes of making our children and grandchildren more culturally sensitive--this is a dangerous activity as well as an unjust one...I understand the importance of being culturally sensitve, but I will never understand ignorance.
posted by
ms_bradrock
on May 24, 2006 at 8:04 AM
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wouldn't you want Islamic kids
to learn about Christianity
and in order to do that, you know that they would need something like you stated here that teachers are having U.S., kids do in class.
if you want to learn about another religion, you have to spend more time on learning.
we already know about Christianity.
and we would infer that the Christian kids learning about Islam aren't bein indoctrinated or are ready to accept Islamic teachings. You have to remember that their Allah is also our god.
thing is, more and more kids that have grown up with Christianity, learning all there is about it, are rejecting it.
the more one knows about certain extant religions (he who thinks, that is) the more apt one is to pursue other perceptions of existence.
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 24, 2006 at 7:52 AM
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