:Shaun: Before public education came about all schools were what we would today call Christian schools (which are private now). Back in those days God was taught in public schools. The Bible was read daily in class. There was prayer time and kids were taught respect for others how to live a good Christian life and if you didn't like it you didn't go.DDN: So what? LOTS of things were different before the advent of public education. White people had slaves, there was no electricity, and children died of smallpox. Does that mean we should reintroduce slavery, shut down the electric grid, and infect each other with fatal diseases to solve our education woes?
And since when is Bible study a prerequisite for respectful behavior? There are at least 4 billion people on this planet that have never read even one biblical verse and many of them behave VERY respectfully. The manners of non-christianized orientals (2 billion strong?) are LEGENDARY. The Taoist culture of China is built on a rockbed of respect for others. “Get stuffed” in Chinese translates to “May you have interesting times”. The insuation that Christianity has some sort of monopoly on respect, or worse yet, on “God”, is a horrendous insult to BILLIONS of people, totally unsubstantiated by reality, a worldwide international embarrassment for the USA (one of the rudest places on the planet), and, at the very least, is DISRESPECTFUL.
You wanna talk about respect, Shaun? Go visit a Native American reservation with your pious attitude and tell THEM about how respectful CHRISTIANS are. May you have an interesting time.
:Shaun: ……It is ironic, DDN that you would long for the days before the public school system when God was the focus of school and yet you critisize Christians and Jesus on a daily basis here.
DDN: ………hee hee hee
1) That wasn’t SCHOOL. That was CHURCH with some reading, writing, and math lessons thrown in to compensate for the bible’s lack of instruction in these areas. What’s ironic is that anything else other
than the bible had to be taught since the bible, being allegedly synonymous with “The Truth”, is all we NEED according to Christianity.
2) What I long for are the days when education wasn’t controlled by a handful of sold out idiots in Washington, DC. Whatever form that took, be it Christian schooling or otherwise, at least education was not a branch of the corporate slave state which I find even more reprehensible than slavery to bogus religious doctrines like Christianity. The only thing I can imagine worse than this is a corporate slave state education system that shoves the “God of Terror” (Jehovah) down the throats of six-year-olds.
3) “God” IS the focus of public education. Everything being FROM God, it is impossible to study ANYTHING without studying some aspect of God. Perhaps some things reveal “God” to us better than others, but in that hierarchy I’d put things like math and Hemingway much closer to the top than that big random joke called the Holy Bible.
:Shaun: ……And by the way, I think that public education is working ok.
DDN: Well, Shaun, that’s the most profound irony of ALL, isn’t it? How can it be “working ok” it they are not teaching “God” in there, huh?
:Shaun: …..Just because there are a few bad apples doesn't mean it isn't working.
DDN: A few bad apples? THAT’S not my contention. My contention is that there are only a few GOOD apples that slip through the cracks in spite of the horrible Orwellian brainwashing that public school attendance mandates. Besides, according to you, 90% of us are going to burn in hell for all eternity, so apparently NOTHING is “working” very well at all, INCLUDING public education AND Christianity.
:Shaun: ……. Some parents do not play a role in thier kids developement and education and they just don't care, and that is the problem with public schools.
DDN: Come again? Now you’re putting public schools in charge of showing parents how to care for their children?! Jesus Christ, Shaun, why don’t you just throw your bible in the garbage and go pray to your highschool diploma.
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