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robert berger's avatar

“Returning sanity to US education ? “ Huh ? Conservatives like Alex Newman are always whining about the alleged “indoctrination “ of students in our public schools by” the government “ in > socialism,Marxism and communism , godlessness , hatred of America “ and all that nonsense , but they want our public schools to indoctrinate students who do not come from Christian homes in Christianity !

America is now the most religiously diverse nation in world history, with a rapidly shrinking Christian majority and followers of virtually every religion in existence and more atheists and agnostics than ever before . Naturally, this means that there are more students whose parents are not Christians than ever before . To subject these non-christian students to mandatory Christian prayers and Bible readings etc and to force all public schools to put up the 10 Commandments , is a blatant violation of the religious freedom of those students and their parents .

If our public schools are to put the 10 Commandments up , why don’t we also post quotes from the Koran , the ancient Hindu scriptures , the sayings of the Buddha as well as quotes from Darwin’s Origin of the Species to represent atheism ? And if students are to learn about the Bible, it should be in classes on comparative religion , in which they will learn about the various religions of the world taught in a totally impartial way , not favoring any one of these ?

In fact, it would be a good idea if more public schools had such classes .

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Christian Gourley's avatar

Never mind the Bible, get rid of the outrageous pro-noun, self identification nonesense!! There are only 2 genders; your sexual preference has nothing to do with gender. It is NOT hate speech to speak the truth regardless of how snowflakes react. If anyone is offended by these words, they need help with reality.

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