Question : For those who support prayer in our schools...?
Do you plan on adding one kind of prayer into our schools with God included in the prayer and have the prayer be said in English OR will you include all prayers of all religions? Would it be fair for Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist etc children to have to go to PUBLIC school, which they are required to go to by law and listen to a prayer or a say a prayer that they do not believe in or not allow them to say a prayer from their religion? Do you plan to include all types of prayers from every religion into the classroom?
Answer : i think they should have seperate schools. for kids of each religion. and the atheists can just go to hell. theyre gonna end up there anyway.
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One school for each religion?
That will get expensive, especially as probably every tiny christian sect wants to have its own schools ;)
Separate schools for each religion? Well, in a way, this already happens. They are called "Churches" where each religion (and/or subset thereof) get's it's own "me time".
But since there are about 40,000 different Christian sects alone, all believing different things about the One True God(TM) not counting all the other religions, you are going to finish up with an awful lot of schools.
Norm
Seperate but equal, of course.
Edit: damn you, toothache! Get out of my fucking brain!
Nah, too expensive for too little gain. Why don't we just do the logical thing. Cut out the religious aspect and institute a public school system for all children. This would have the added benefit of being within the framework of The Constitution and the laws of the US.
Hey, whadyano! We have this education system in place already. Whodathunkit?
I find this quote ironic:
"Then, as I started to follow Christ, bad things began happening. There were many times where he tried to kill me through food poisoning, accidents, falls off horses, anything that he could think of to hurt or destroy me in some way."
He makes it sound like Jeebus did this.
Also, I'm pretty sure the moral of this story is - Christ has no power. Follow Satan. That's what he's trying to tell us, right?
Children don't have religion. Their parents do. Separating out the children fosters "us vs them" mentality which leads to prejudice and violence. Also, forcing one group to remain uneducated leads to societal problems that tax payers get smacked with.
BTW separate schools... isn't that what home schooling is?
Segregation didn't work any of the times it was used throughout history -- what makes you think it's going to work now?
Oh, and an all-atheist school would probably have the highest scoring students in the country. If one ever opens up, I'd send my future children there.
i think they should have seperate schools. for kids of each religion
They do. They're called churches. If we should have separate schools, should we also have separate hardware stores and Dairy Queens?
[i think they should have seperate schools.]
They thought the same way in the 40's and 50's and it didnt work.
[and the atheists can just go to hell. ]
It's your made up god and your imaginary hell, YOU burn in it.
i think they should have seperate schools. for kids of each religion. and the atheists can just go to hell. theyre gonna end up there anyway.
So, you'd be willing to pay for each school to have their denominational school, I assume? I mean if you're expecting us to turn Public School into your own church...
XD
Wrong quote there, Ltap.
Yes! lets just segregate everybody. That will make for a well functioning society!
Or wait, you could just send your kid to a christian school!
Wow. I'm trying to imagine "separate schools for each religion."
So now, if you convert to a different religion, you have to switch schools, too? And if the kid has parents of different religions, which school does he/she have to go to?
True story. Friends moved from England to Houston because the husband's work took them there. Their eight-year-old son went with them.
On his first day in (public) school, the teacher asked the class, "Who went to church yesterday?" All the hands except his went up. The little lad came home in tears, because he was different.
If that's the case I am glad I graduated in 99 and college in 08 cause I'd be in a school all alone. Why not let all the religions blend together so we can learn about other religions? And atheists can go to school too. But I feel your love.
Anyone else notice an irony today? Lot of Christian love and a post about how Christians show more love than atheists
@ Martha:
Church attendance in England is around 5% of the population. It's an irrelevance for most people. Sundays are pretty much like any other day, but without working.
You're on the wrong side of the pond. Come over here. We like intelligent Americans!
@ Grigori
Fuckin' A, man. I love Americans who think with their brains. I love America, and American films, and American writers. What's not to like?
But I hate Republicans, and fundies, and all those other fuckwits who want things all their own way. In England we live and let live, and although not everything here is by any means perfect, I think we try to do as we would be done by, and that's a healthy way to survive.
I would never try to impose my will on anyone else, unless there was money in it.
fergus
"and the atheists can just go to hell. theyre gonna end up there anyway."
So you agree that the Jews, Muslims, Hindi, and Buddhists are NOT going to end up in Hell, then.
....and the atheists can just go to hell. theyre gonna end up there anyway.
So,,,,, does this mean that paul diamond thinks Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists have a fair chance of making it to heaven? Sure sounds that way.
Not to mention the added benefits of encouraging massive social segregation between different religious groups.
Oh, and if you are in the US, I believe your country is supposed to be secular. That means there should be no teaching of religion in institutions other than churches, temples etc. and in your own home.
The sooner the fundies build their own separate [note spelling] schools, the sooner the PUBLIC schools will be rid of the stench of knee-jerk ignorance.
[edit] Awright, awright, mixed metaphors. Sue me.
@Grigori: Actually, we did live in the UK from 1994 to 1999. We moved in late 1999 because my dad wanted to find work in his home (Mom's English, btw.)
We are all on the agreement that it was one of the worst mistakes anyone of the human race has ever made.
First of all, that would cost a hell of a lot of money building a Christian school, a Jewish school, a Rasta school, a Buddhist school, a Hindu school, a Pastafarian school, a Scientologist school, a Mormon school, etcetera, etcetera. Second of all, you really support a genocide of every atheist in the country? Really?
I'd have no problem if every religion had it's own school. Churches are rich, so they can afford building their own schools and running them. Anything to get your kinds out of public schools. And your prayers. But, who am i to say from behind the Atlantic, from a country where there is no mandatory religion or anything related in public schools.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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