In an optimal world you may be right, but this world is not optimal. We have babies having babies. We have people who do not teach their kids anything because they are too busy and they probably wish their kids were never born anyway.
Everybody, from the grandparents to the teachers to the preachers and anybody else that they come in contact needs to help teach them right from wrong. When communities were small or even city blocks, everybody knew everybody and they did this important function. Today where we don't even know our neighbors, its not getting done Virgil Bierschwale http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com http://www.jobsforourfuture.com/index.php -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:13 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Perspective On May 9, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > I'm not religious at all, but I do believe that people have to > learn right > from wrong and if the ten commandments are used to teach them these > things, > then I'm all for it. The point is that it should be the parents who decide what to teach their kids. It should be the parents who choose which religion, if any, is used as the basis for their children's moral grounding. There are schools for people who want their particular choice taught by the teachers; public schools, OTOH, have to be available to all. Having the school hours devoted to teaching math, reading, science, literature and the like is what we are talking about. That leaves about 18 hours a day, plus weekends, holidays and the entire summer to teach your kids whatever you feel is needed in the way of religion. This is what I meant by Christians being so whiney. It isn't enough that they are free to practice their religion; when they are prevented from acting as though they are the only religion deserving of respect, they start whining and making up bullshit about how everything was great until they were forced to treat other religions as deserving of respect. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
