The quotes are taken directly from http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2455343&page=1, talking about a documentary about the camps. They call themselves "Soldiers of God", the documentary is called "Jesus Camp", so my description of them as the Army of Jesus camps seems pretty accurate.
If you are saying that you don't see any connection between the story about the Jesus Camp and the story about the art teacher fired, the connection is that, to me, these are both examples of religious fanaticism gone wild. You may disagree that these happenings are not examples of religious intolerance, and a growing trend in the US for Christian fundamentalists to emulate the Taliban, but that is my feeling on this topic. I put forth both topics this morning as examples of this trend, to see if anyone else had any feelings on the subject, and could see the same correlations I was seeing. Firing an art teacher because a 10 year old saw a marble nude statue? Sounds like the Taliban to me. Should we blow up the statue with dynamite? Teaching kids in camps that they should be willing to kill and die and be as fanatical as suicide bombers in Palestine? Again, sounds like the Madras schools, maybe? On 9/27/06, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/27/06, Skorp Croze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, those two quotes directly tie to the 2nd example of religious > > fanaticism I started the thread with, the Army of Jesus camps. Doesn't > > that make them relevant? Feel free to refute. as I started the thread, > > everything I say IS relevant. =) > > And I challenge your opinion that their statements are relevant. No > reference to the "Army of Jesus" is made in any article that I have > found relating to this issue. No cultural or religous tie has been > indicated or implied at all. > > That's the entire problem with the stance that you are taking: you are > assuming that because the actions happened where they did that they > were taken by Christians. My entire position is based on the fact > that you don't know enough about the actual issue to state undeniably > that it's based on religous convictions. > > And yes, I know that other people that have called into a talk radio > show will say that they'd be upset because of religous beliefs. The > School Board declined to comment, nothing has been heard from the > Principal or the Teacher. There are no absolute statements of fact > that it's a religous issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216210 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
