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Originally posted by Spanky
The purpsoe of education is not to make people feel good or bad about their religion, the purpose is to educate. In science class that is to teach the truth the best the science community knows it at the time. If someone's religion beliefs are in conflict with what is taught in science class, that it tough. If the science education curriculum was designed around what didn't conflict with religious ideas the classes would last about two seconds.
It is not OK to teach religious ideas to students in public schools (that is state sponsored religion), but it is OK to teach scientific ideas that conflict with religious ideas. Thre is no rule against the government establishing science just against the government establishing a religion.
The Puritans (whom I am decedent from so I can rag on them all I want) wouldn't approve but they set up a theocracy and burned witches. The Puritans democrat and tolerance credentials are highly suspect.
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There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17.
"The path of the
righteous man is beset on all sides
by the inequities of the selfish
and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of
charity and good will, shepherds
the weak through the valley of the
darkness. For he is truly his
brother's keeper and the finder of
lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee
with great vengeance and furious
anger those who attempt to poison
and destroy my brothers. And you
will know I am the Lord when I lay
my vengeance upon you."
Now I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker 'fore you popped a Guernica or Gilligan post on his ass.
But I saw some shit last year made me think I should be nicer. Now I'm thinkin', it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And my flaming ability is the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could by you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that.
But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin' Spanky. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.
