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RE: Ridiculous!
I went to a Baptist school where my Bible teacher told me that all the dinosaurs died in the flood because Noah couldn't put them on the Arc.
Waaaaaait just a minute there! You mean the alternative-to-evolution and alternative-to-big-bang-to-present-history doctrines haven't been decided upon by their backers? Did Noah bring dinosaurs with him or not? This of all things should be a pretty simple decision for the church/preachers/etc to decide upon.
It sure must've been scary to be alive with all the dinosaurs running around. Oh wait, I almost forgot that I believe in the fossil record.
RE: Ridiculous!
How ridiculous is this?
I'm not sure I see why this is so ridiculous. It's a high school class, so I think the subject matter is ok as long as its not requiring them to acknowledge an opinion as truth (e.g., in a test). The transcript states:
- Teacher: Is it bothering anybody that we're taking this direction?
- Students: (unenergetic moans of "no")
- Teacher: Ok...
- Student J1: I kinda like this direction.
- LaClaire: Alright -
- Teacher: Do you like it or you don't like it? I don't want to step on your toes. We aim to please here.
... seems fair enough to me. Religion is a real thing, regardless of its truth. Don't you think it's healthy for a student to be able to engage in a discussion like this in public? To be able to hear the arguments of a believer and a doubter? Again, it doesn't mean that students should be accountable for such conversations, but it doesn't mean that they should be banned either.
And let's be fair, the quote in the news post is completely taken out of context. It's quoted as if the teacher were preaching this to his class, and not in the context of a back and forth "what if" conversation that's actually occurring. Read the transcript and you'll see what I mean.
So, I think the practice of Yoga on a regular basis is more questionable than an off-topic, two-sided religion conversation in a high school history (not science) classroom (though I wouldn't ban yoga either). With the yoga, it seems like it was a requirement. This conversation was not.
maybe the schoolboard consists of a bunch of ignorant, angry, Jesus flinging people like this guy!
It's funny, religious people love to oversimplify things so they can draw conclusions without facts and they often get called on it. Even funnier is when the people calling them on it are guilty of the same practice. Hypocrisy at its finest.
RE: Ridiculous!
Jesus flinging. Wow. When I first read this I thought you were just trying to be nasty. Later, when I thought about it I realized that the description was poetically and descriptively correct.
Flinging: to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence.
Usually when you “fling” something you do it without much control of direction also.
So this guy is flinging Jesus about and he’s landing hard in places he probably shouldn’t be, and maybe doesn’t even want to be, although I can’t speak for him on that one. He’s probably not too happy about being flung though.
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Ridiculous!
How ridiculous is this?
Has the schoolboard lost its mind? Or maybe the schoolboard consists of a bunch of ignorant, angry, Jesus flinging people like this guy!
So ranting about hell is ok, but in this school system, yoga was thrown out as a form of exercise for children b/c religious people didn't seem to think that it was good for their children. They claimed that you couldn't separate the exercise from the religious aspects of yoga.
Maybe they think that if a kid spends enough time with himself/herself...he/she might find that he/she disagrees..or agrees with something that his/her parents think he/she shouldn't. God forbid! A sense of self! An identity! Whoa...I'm getting a little too excited here. Gotta put those free thinkers back in the box. Hippies...all of them.
This guy gets to ecxercise his right to preach in school and gets away with it, but a yoga teacher can't teach exercise to kids b/c religious cooties might jump off of him and contaminate the kids. I went to a Baptist school where my Bible teacher told me that all the dinosaurs died in the flood because Noah couldn't put them on the Arc. It's statements like that that drive people away from what they're trying to draw you toward. Moderation seems to be the key that people are missing. Seems it's all or nothing these days.
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