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Skriven 2009-06-05 12:41:44 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Aurelio
Ärende: Stirring The Pot, its what Drum says I do.
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-> On 04 Jun 09  18:56:22, Michael Aurelio got back to Ross Sauer 
-> Re: Stirring The Pot, its what Drum says I do.

 MA> As you put it, it was the "holier-than-thou" fundies that created the
 MA> school system. The first school systems in this country were Sunday
 MA> Schools and Bible Schools and it was the teaching of scripture that
 MA> gave us the education we have today.

That's only part of the story.  The public school systems did develop 
that way,  however, the various religious groups in the are involved 
with the public schools were adament that there was no religious 
instructions taught in them.  They did not want one sect having any 
advantage over any of the others.  

 MA> The truth is, when ever another culture or religion is criticized in
 MA> our schools or even a hint of squelching is implied, everybody sounds
 MA> the alarm and screams persecution... But every it's perfectly okay to
 MA> squelch the christians and take away their rights, after all, it's the
 MA> separation of church and state right?

See above.  Separation of church and state was the rule of the day well 
before the First Amendment.  It was instisted upon by those religious 
groups. 

 MA> The separation of church and state excuse is just that, an excuse.
 MA> The words are found nowhere in our constitution.

Again, it is part and parcel to the founding of this country.  

 MA> The separation of church and state is a legal and politically correct
 MA> principle "derived from" the First Amendment but, it actually does not
 MA> appear anywhere in the First Amendment.

It appears as the traditions instituted by the religions themselves.  


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