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Skriven 2006-12-28 12:24:09 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
     Kommentar till en text av bob klahn
Ärende: Generic Christianity
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27 Dec 06 22:47, bob klahn wrote to Roy Witt:


 RC>>>> If in Salt Lake City Utah, would the view of the tabernacle
 RC>>>> complex compel you to become a Mormon?

 bk>>>  If it's on public property, or paid for with public funds, it
 bk>>>  would compel me to become an advocate for tearing it down or
 bk>>>  making the Mormon church pay for it.

 RW>> It's already all of those things. The property belongs to
 RW>> the people of Utah, the tabernacle and all of the other
 RW>> buildings there also belong to the people of Utah. The
 RW>> Morman church paid for the buildings through tithing. Each
 RW>> working person in Utah pays their tiths through payroll
 RW>> deduction. Even if they're not Mormons.

 bk>  IOW, it's worse than I thought. It should be taken by the
 bk>  government, and any further Church use of it requiring rental.
 bk>  Oh, and that rental be up for bid. IOW, any church can rent it.
 bk>  Better yet, it should be sold at auction.

Ahhh, a true hypocrite has spoken. The government shouldn't do anything,
as it would be a violation of the Constitution. I knew you were a fucking
liberal, but I didn't know you were this crazy with your liberal views.

 RC>>>> This notion of fear you express is unfounded and irrational.

 bk>  Above you just showed it is well founded and rational.

You may be afraid, but I doubt very much that Ross is. I'm not.

 bk>>>  No, it's quite well founded and rational. I was born in 1947.
 bk>>>  From my recollections of the early to mid '50s, in the public
 bk>>>  schools, we had protestant bible readings and protestant
 bk>>>  prayers. That *IS* cramming Protestantism down the throats of
 bk>>>  Catholic children.

 RW>> The Catholic schools did the same thing to their protestant
 RW>> and athiest students back then.

 bk>  Did you miss the part about "Catholic Schools"? That's one
 bk>  reason I oppose govt support for parochial schools. If you send
 bk>  your children there you do so knowing it's a Catholic School,
 bk>  and it will teach the Catholic religion. All clear as long as
 bk>  the govt is not paying for it.

If those schools receive even a penny of support from the government, they
condone what the state requires them to teach.

 RW>> Not to mention that each
 RW>> and every teacher wore a nun's outfit or a priest's,
 RW>> meanwhile shoving religious fear down the throats of
 RW>> children...

 bk>  Only if they are priests or nuns.

There are no other teachers.

 bk>  And the Catholic schools were not as bad as some of these
 bk>  protestants I see.

Holier than thou thinking, no doubt.

               R\%/itt




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