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Posted by LuckyTheDog in Political Videos
Sun Sep 27th 2009, 02:00 AM

 
One of my cousins posted this on Facebook, where it is making the rounds. Here was my response:

The existence of God cannot be proved or disproved through rhetoric or science. It would be silly for any teacher to say that God does not exist. I also like the idea that evil is, essentially, the absence of good and not a "thing" unto itself.

But... I still don't want school officials writing prayers and forcing kids to recite them as a group. I don't think schools serve kids by imposing the religious ideas of the teacher (or the school board) on the kids.What if the teacher is a Muslim and your kid is a Baptist?

Because religion is such a deeply personal thing, religious education belongs at home and at church. There is a lot school can do in terms of teaching ethics. But schools are not qualified to wade into issues like the divinity of Jesus or the meaning of the Book of Revelations.

Religion never left the schools. The only difference between now and the past is that kids now are expected to bring their religion to school with them, not pick it up in class.
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Bush: Getting crazier
This radio address shows, as much as anything, just how out of touch with reality he has become:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...800...

On the eve of the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, President Bush today promised to "finish the mission" with total victory, urging the American public to remain steadfast but offering no indication when victory might be achieved.

"More fighting and sacrifice will be required," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "For some, the temptation to retreat and abandon our commitments is strong. Yet there is no peace, there's no honor and there's no security in retreat. So America will not abandon Iraq to the terrorists who want to attack us again."

Bush's address comes at a time when confidence in the administration's Iraq strategy appears to have reached all-time lows. A Washington Post-ABC News poll this month found that 65 percent of Americans surveyed thought Bush had no plan for victory, while 35 percent -- the lowest level ever recorded by the poll -- said he did.
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