Yeah, amorality is so tough to find in SoCal.
Posted on 05/18/2002 9:44:55 PM PDT by let freedom sing
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:36:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Yeah, amorality is so tough to find in SoCal.
I still fail to see what this has to do with the child.
Out Christian school is expanding to add an extra grade and we are looking to increase enrollment. At a Board Meeting, we were going down the list of children that were graduating from another private elementary school to see which children may attend our Christian middle school.
When one child's name came up, someone said that she would not be a candidate because "her parents are hard core atheists". I pointed out that such a child is precisely the child that a Christian school may want to go out of it's way to recruit.
The school is there for the children. Not the parents. The children.
So was it the nudity or the dancing that got her in hot water :)
Personally, I don't dance, but any church that bans drinking and smoking sure as hell ain't getting my dollar in their collection plate on Sunday.
Of course it's there too, but the San Francisco area has raised it to an art form.
Ditto-- hope the rest of the congregation handles the damage control with finesse. The female members are probably just as happy not to have her in the fold, but the men could be kicking themselves already. ;-)
The problem with this story is that this school decided upon certain rules and were completely upfront with them. If you don't like the school's rules, go somewhere else (as the woman is doing) and don't try to impose your morality (or immorality) upon the school. I wouldn't qualify for enrolling my kids, and I'm not the least offended by that fact. To each his own.
I'll bring the sunscreen!
Now THAT'S funny!!!
You win the prize for most perceptive.
As I say, as an atheist, I am always happy when the church manages to drive someone away. Hooray.
That's a big assumption.
Where do Missionaries go to preach the Gospel? To the First Baptist Church or to some a country full of atheists and non-Christians?
If the parents are that anti-Christian as to undermine all our teachings, they would not consider enrolling the child in our Christian school in the first place.
This mother may be a "do as I say and not as I do" type of parent. That is not ideal as a child should be taught by example. However, if the parent is willing to give her child a Christian education, the child should be given that opportunity.
I cannot imagine Jesus turning a child away for the sins of the parent.
Frankly, even though I don't approve a mom stripping, I don't blame her. A church that tries to tell you what to do in your own home or on your own time is unacceptable. This is exactly the reason my family homechurch.
and who says chivalry is dead.......
Very well said.
You win the prize for fostering the most repulsive mental images.
What I can't figure out, is why TV and movies are discouraged, but not gossip and INTERNET, too. Someone else in the congregation needs the pastor's attention, too.
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