Its gotten out of hand that my athiest-jewish children should be allowed not to have to pray to "our father" (a christian prayer) in public school?
--Beth, Pseudo usenet cop Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) Anchorage, Alaska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > I just really think the whole separation of church and state has been so > misconstrued it's not even funny. Not that this is all encompassing, but > the book, "Birth of the Nation", gave some good insight. Way back in the > day, churches were funded by the local government. It just so happened > that Protestants were the dominating religion of the day. Therefore the > Catholics and the Jews got screwed and had a hard time practicing their > faith. It was determined that it wasn't fair to fund just the > Protestants, so funding was taken away and everybody was free to > practice their religion of choice. Thus, the separation of church and > state - nothing more, nothing less. > > For some reason, separation of church and state has morphed into, you > can't pray in school, you can hardly mention God (and I guess you can't > mention Satan now either), without the ACLU breathing down your neck. > The ACLU needs to find better things to do with their time. > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:37 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Enron executive commits suicide > > > I also hearby declare that Jesus is also banned from the list. > > Since I'm not God, a Dinowitz, or the government my declaration doesn't > really matter, but I imagine if I was one of the above a lot of people > would > be pretty pissed. > That's the entire point... > > jon > .Playing Devil's Advocate for a more open minded cf-community ;-) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:05 PM > Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > > > > OMG!!! What is this world coming to?????? I do understand that people > > have rights and everything, but this is a little to much. > > > > Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I hereby declare that Satan, the master of > eeeviiiilll > > and the tempter of all things bad (including Wendy's #3 Biggie Size), > is > > banned from the cf-community list and all cf related list for that > > matter!!!!! > > > > Hail Mary, full of grace. Yada, yada, yada... > > > > Mark > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
