RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2011 at 7:14 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Well, this is why I believe the ACLU is a fan- TASTIC organisation. Telling public schools that they should conform to the US constitution in regards to freedom from religion?
Yes, please.
I remember my 5th grade teacher used to love to quote gospel and she had us use the bible for one assignment in class (for a grade. She did clear it with the principal first.)
I loved to say things in class to annoy her. I remember a conversation I had with a friend about how gods from other religions could beat Jesus in a fight. It was funny because I was really into dragonball z at the time and the idea of gods fusing into super-gods came up in these discussions. I got disciplinary marks frequently in that class for unrelated reasons (rarely to detention mind you.)
Yes, please.
I remember my 5th grade teacher used to love to quote gospel and she had us use the bible for one assignment in class (for a grade. She did clear it with the principal first.)
I loved to say things in class to annoy her. I remember a conversation I had with a friend about how gods from other religions could beat Jesus in a fight. It was funny because I was really into dragonball z at the time and the idea of gods fusing into super-gods came up in these discussions. I got disciplinary marks frequently in that class for unrelated reasons (rarely to detention mind you.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
