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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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27 Apr 2005 10:20:44 PM |
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The American Taliban strikes again |
April 27, 2005
Texas School Board Adds Bible Class
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:45 a.m. ET
ODESSA, Texas (AP) -- The school board in this West Texas town voted
unanimously to add a Bible class to its high school curriculum.
Hundreds of people, most of them supporters of the proposal, packed the
board meeting Tuesday night. More than 6,000 Odessa residents had signed a
petition supporting the class.
Some residents, however, said the school board acted too quickly. Others
said they feared a national constitutional fight.
Barring any hurdles, the class should be added to the curriculum in fall
2006 and taught as a history or literature course. The school board still
must develop a curriculum, which board member Floy Hinson said should be
open for public review.
The board had heard a presentation in March from Mike Johnson, a
representative of the Greensboro, N.C.-based National Council on Bible
Curriculum in Public Schools, who said that coursework designed by that
organization is not about proselytizing or preaching.
But People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union have
criticized the council, saying its materials promote religion...."
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| User: "Unpleasant Truth" |
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| Title: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
01 May 2005 10:20:17 AM |
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Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
"Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote in message
news:1170mc74tg1s45e@corp.supernews.com...
April 27, 2005
Texas School Board Adds Bible Class
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:45 a.m. ET
ODESSA, Texas (AP) -- The school board in this West Texas town voted
unanimously to add a Bible class to its high school curriculum.
Hundreds of people, most of them supporters of the proposal, packed the
board meeting Tuesday night. More than 6,000 Odessa residents had signed a
petition supporting the class.
Some residents, however, said the school board acted too quickly. Others
said they feared a national constitutional fight.
Barring any hurdles, the class should be added to the curriculum in fall
2006 and taught as a history or literature course. The school board still
must develop a curriculum, which board member Floy Hinson said should be
open for public review.
The board had heard a presentation in March from Mike Johnson, a
representative of the Greensboro, N.C.-based National Council on Bible
Curriculum in Public Schools, who said that coursework designed by that
organization is not about proselytizing or preaching.
But People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union
have
criticized the council, saying its materials promote religion...."
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/books.html
Books
The religious and moral education of youth was paramount in early American
schools. The first book in the classroom was the Bible. It was central to a
child's education, not only for its content, but the way it was used to
build skills. Students learned how to read using the Bible. Much of the
school day was devoted to memorizing and reciting passages from it, and
passages were copied to learn penmanship.
The first textbook was the New England Primer, used between 1760 and 1843.
The most popular schoolbook in the nineteenth century was the McGuffey
Reader, introduced in 1836. Based on landmarks of world literature, the set
of six readers, which increased in difficulty, were the basis for teaching
literacy, as well as basic values such as honesty and charity. The readers
gave the teacher flexibility she lacked before, allowing her to more easily
teach a classroom of pupils of different ages and levels. Tens of millions
of copies were sold in the nineteenth century. In rural America the McGuffey
Reader was often the only exposure people had to world literature.
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Back then, of course, literacy was much higher than now. The fruits of
modern liberalism - aren't they wonderful! Make kids illiterate, ignorant
and immoral, all at the same time.
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| User: "ZenIsWhen" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
01 May 2005 02:41:15 PM |
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"Unpleasant Truth" <no.one@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Ss6de.4$6k4.4609@news.uswest.net...
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our
religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
The truth is not as unpleasant as your psychotic lies.
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| User: "Unpleasant Truth" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
04 May 2005 10:35:11 AM |
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"ZenIsWhen" <here'slooking@youkid.com> wrote in message
news:117ac7124sgcn1f@corp.supernews.com...
"Unpleasant Truth" <no.one@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Ss6de.4$6k4.4609@news.uswest.net...
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our
religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
The truth is not as unpleasant as your psychotic lies.
Just like the other clown ...
As usual from a leftist - no facts, just blather. Of course, when you have
no facts on your side, you don't have much choice, do you?
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| User: "Paul Duca" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
04 May 2005 08:30:13 PM |
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in article PY5ee.5$rn6.3001@news.uswest.net, Unpleasant Truth at
no.one@nowhere.com wrote on 5/4/05 11:35 AM:
"ZenIsWhen" <here'slooking@youkid.com> wrote in message
news:117ac7124sgcn1f@corp.supernews.com...
"Unpleasant Truth" <no.one@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Ss6de.4$6k4.4609@news.uswest.net...
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our
religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
The truth is not as unpleasant as your psychotic lies.
Just like the other clown ...
As usual from a leftist - no facts, just blather. Of course, when you have
no facts on your side, you don't have much choice, do you?
And do YOU have anything besides pie-in-the-sky promises?
Paul
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
02 May 2005 06:50:24 AM |
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On Sun, 01 May 2005 08:20:17 -0700, Unpleasant Truth wrote:
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our
religious heritage to hold leftist views,
"Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote in message
news:1170mc74tg1s45e@corp.supernews.com...
April 27, 2005
Texas School Board Adds Bible Class
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:45 a.m. ET
If the public school could be trusted not to use such a class to preach
Xtianity, instead of educating students about it, it would be no problem
for the ACLU or anyone else concerned with protecting school children from
state-sanctioned evangelism. As it happens, I heard on the radio an
interview with a representative from the "Bible Literacy Project". They
were very open about how pleased they would be if some students converted
to Xtianity on account of this class.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
01 May 2005 02:09:04 PM |
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On Sun, 1 May 2005 08:20:17 -0700, "Unpleasant Truth"
<no.one@nowhere.com> wrote:
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
Proving once again that Raytard doesn't have two brain cells to rub
together.
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| User: "Unpleasant Truth" |
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| Title: Re: Idiot leftists think our Founding Fathers were the Taliban? |
04 May 2005 10:34:12 AM |
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"John Baker" <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote in message
news:59aa711ibs3buspd83pnpftfvi0n9s2s34@4ax.com...
On Sun, 1 May 2005 08:20:17 -0700, "Unpleasant Truth"
<no.one@nowhere.com> wrote:
Proving once again that you have to be completely ignorant of our
religious
heritage to hold leftist views,
Proving once again that Raytard doesn't have two brain cells to rub
together.
As usual from a leftist - no facts, just blather. Of course, when you have
no facts on your side, you don't have much choice, do you?
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