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Religion in school
Minimalist Offline Donators
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#11
RE: Religion in school
November 30, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Quote:The the priest got "fired" (retired), because parents complained ybout how he sometimes treated kids (pulling their ears

Are you sure it was only their "ears" he was pulling?
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#12
RE: Religion in school
November 30, 2012 at 9:18 pm
I would pitch a right fit, but I'm in the US and my kids attend public school (only partly true, my youngest is in a private Montessori program run by a lovely, Indian-South African woman, I think she's Buddhist, who knows we aren't religious, but he'll be attending the same school as my 1st grader next year).
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#13
RE: Religion in school
November 30, 2012 at 9:27 pm
(November 30, 2012 at 8:52 pm)Supermanbeer Wrote:
(November 30, 2012 at 7:34 pm)Voltron Wrote: Curious, where are you from? I myself wouldn't sit back and wait on it. I'd be at the school in a hurry asking about this bible man. I'd be pretty pissed if some clown were teaching my girls to embrace the nonsense. I'm all for kids learning and taking what they've observed to make up their minds. And I feel that I teach my kids to look for truth, but I wouldn't sit by and let some dickhead push religion on my kids and hope they don't fall victim to the madness.

Im from Wales in the UK, yeah that's what i mean i am becoming increasingly frustrated about it, in other aspects of my life im pretty vocal and unashamed of anti theist beliefs however dealing with the subject with the kids is different somehow. I made my own mind up about the shortfalls of religion maybe they will to however I do need to deal with this from a different angle maybe explain how these are just stories with no evidence to back them up.

The bible - the most successful work of fiction ever produced Tongue

I suppose I also see it like, the kids don't have a say in what they are taught or what storytime entails. This man's ideals and beliefs are literally being forced upon those children in your son's class. As innocent as this bible man may make it out to be, it has no place in the classroom. It would either stop, or my kids would not be in that class for a minute longer.
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#14
RE: Religion in school
October 28, 2015 at 11:57 pm
I'm not religious, but for some odd reason I feel like you are making this up.
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#15
RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 12:10 am
Oh. My. Gahds.

Seriously. This thread is three years old. The OP hasn't been back since then.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 12:13 am
Holy necro.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 12:16 am (This post was last modified: October 29, 2015 at 12:16 am by Alex K.)
Shit I was this close to responding to the OP just now - whew.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#18
RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 1:42 am
Are we reading the dead for Halloween? Lol
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” 
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 2:33 am
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RE: Religion in school
October 29, 2015 at 5:01 am
No! Bad corpse thumper! >:c
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