I'd Have Expected This in Texas....Not Oregon

[Anomalocaris]

This part tells me that they're definitely from Portland.


Where the fuck do you find a therapist that speaks cat?

I'll speak cat for $200/hour.

I'll give you $200 a hour to watch you eat raw dead rats.

[Chad32]

This perplexes me. I live in the bible belt, but I've never heard of taking kids to bible class in the middle of school. I mean I've heard of field trips and such, but this is weird. At one point I was spending Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, plus Sunday (twice possibly), at some church related event. I probably would have just laughed if some teacher asked me if I wanted to skip class to go to church.

To be fair, Jesus did tell people to get rid of all of their possessions and not worry about the future, so the life of a true christian is not a well educated one.

[John V]

I'll give you $200 a hour to watch you eat raw dead rats.

Sorry, your mom pays better, and no rats involved.

[Jackalope]

This perplexes me. I live in the bible belt, but I've never heard of taking kids to bible class in the middle of school.

I went to high school in Oregon in the 1980s - during my sophomore year, there was a guy in one of my classes who had four periods of Seminary a day, conducted off-site of course. I'd have found it hard to believe if I hadn't seen it printed on his class schedule.

[SavageNerdz]

I'm a bit late to the party, but that's rather disturbing. Surprise there hasn't been a lawsuit yet, hopefully this gets taken care of.. Our school system is already a joke, they're only making it worse.

[Minimalist]

This perplexes me. I live in the bible belt, but I've never heard of taking kids to bible class in the middle of school.

That's because in the fucking bible belt they don't leave the school....they just pour jesus directly into the kids' heads!

[Heywood]

I just... I mean, I don't... just WHY??? Don't kids have Sunday mornings to get their fill of God and Jesus? Shouldn't they be learning about stuff that actually matters during the week and let their parents do the religious indoctrination on their own time?

Kids skip out on school all the time to do random activities. There is nothing new here other than sudden butt-hurt over the realization that some kids are skipping out on school for religious activities.

[Minimalist]

Kids don't get a shuttle bus from idiot jesus freaks to play hooky, dummy.

[Heywood]

Kids don't get a shuttle bus from idiot jesus freaks to play hooky, dummy.

And because the shuttle bus is paid for by jesus freaks that changes things how?

What if the shuttle bus was paid for by speech therapists.....would that get you all butt-hurt that speech therapist were busing kids to therapy sessions?

Look, it all boils down to is you are butt-hurt because some parents choose to have their kids receive a religious indoctrination at the expense of a secular education....which has been happening since....well...the founding of this country. The only thing new here is your new found anger.

Are you going to start whining about parents sending their kids to parochial schools next?

[Chad32]

Why is it important that something wrong has already been happening for a long time? It doesn't make it any less wrong. Speech therapy is demonstrably useful. Religion isn't.