Posted on 07/11/2010 12:05:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
"On behalf of the Catholic Church in El Salvador and society in general, we ask Mr. President to use his executive power to veto the decree referred to upholding the rule of law and democracy of our Salvadoran society"
The Episcopal Conference of El Salvador (CEDES) demanded on Sunday the president Mauricio Funes veto a legislative decree that compels us to read the Bible in schools, believing that "violates" the "religious freedom" enshrined in the Constitution.
The CEDES Funes makes the call under in the coming days must be punished, veto or observe the legislative decree 411 which provides read the Bible in classrooms to combat violence.
The education of children in the faith, according to the bishops, "is a right and duty" of parents, aided by ministers of religion.
"We are interested in reading the Bible, but not as imposing liability in the schools, hopefully becoming more read the Bible is more understood, more practiced," says the shepherd.
(Excerpt) Read more at translate.google.com ...
While I'm sure we can all be confident that the state will provide selections that are not tailor made to any ulterior purpose -heaven knows all good conservatives in the USA blindly trust our Department of Education - is it possible that individual teachers will put a spin on the passages that the Ministry allows? I know American teachers can always be trusted never to allow their personal opinions to intrude into the classroom, but . . .
Catholic, Baptist and Pentecostal leaders are all opposing this move, because it involves individual teachers deciding which religion they want to teach in their classroom. it is seen also as an assault by liberals in the government on Christian schools of every denomination - by mandating a watered-down state-approved version of liberal Christianity the charters of the Christian schools will be labeled superfluous and will not be renewed.
Where's the article that confirms your story???
This is the money quote and it makes perfect sense. The Catholic Church, still, to the absolute amazement of many, teaches that truth is one and all else is error. Thus, Scripture certainly requires "la debida explicacion". The authentic interpretation of Scripture and the deposit of faith is a gift from God to the Church, which allows us to safeguard the truth and pass it on untainted.
Call that "baggage", if you wish, but the YOPIOS approach yields confusion and a gaggle of conflicting voices.
The Catholic Church believes that God does far more than simply toss us a Bible and say "go figure". That might be the Protestant approach but God is a far better Father than that. He gives us the certitude of the truth.
What a surprise that the Church should wish to safeguard it.
El Salvador in 2010 is not the USA in 1950.
The government here specifically says that the goal here is to use it as part of the government's anti-crime campaign. in other words: "Even the Bible says the government is right!" That doesn't make me feel too comfortable.
The law, which "institutes the reading of passages of the Bible on a daily basis and in a systematic way in all of the educational institutions of the country," was approved by the Salvadorian parliament. The readings will take place for up to seven minutes without additional commentaries.
I'm thinking you're just worried that more people will find out that the real church is not the Catholic religion...
BTW, in El Salvador Prensa is the liberal paper and Hoy is the conservative.
This doesn’t sound right. Calling someone who can translate it correctly.
There’s got to be more to this story. Like someone else deciding what children are taught rather than the parents.
Don’t confuse a good anti-Catholic fetish orgy with facts. They don’t want to let go of the blood lust.
Are you sure the Catholic Church is liberal??? LOL!
The Catholic Church is the only church, ONLY church, I repeat that has stood against abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, infatnacide — and the list goes on — same sex marriage.
Protestant churches have caved on these matters. Aren’t you aware of the number of Protestants that are coming back to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church??
Please educate yourself.
Another good article here:
http://migenteinforma.org/presidente-funes-acuerdo-con-lectura-de-biblia-en-centros-escolares/
From that:
President Mauricio Funes said Tuesday July 6 that in principle he agrees with the reading of the Bible in schools, but pointed out that when you receive the decree of the Legislative Assembly, listen to different sectors and Registrar legal affairs office, before making a decision...
The decree passed by 45 votes in legislative fractions, except FMLN and CD, provides that prior to the start of the school day the Bible is read by an average of 7 minutes without performing any comments religious, sectarian or denominational.
The two paragraphs above are from Google Translate, so that you would not think I “colored” the truth.
The legislature thinks reading the Bible in schools will combat violence. The bishops say that’s a nice thought, but that simply reading the Bible, without any instruction about what’s being read, is unlikely to help with that goal. And that if there is “teaching” being done, in addition to simply reading from the Bible, that is religious instruction which is not within the purview of the state. They say that religious instruction is the right and duty of parents, to be accomplished with the assistance of the parents’ chosen religious community.
OF COURSE Salvadoran Catholics have a perfectly good Spanish Bible (a number of versions) available to them. I own one, myself, “Latinoamerica, Edicion Pastoral.” Half the people in our Spanish charismatic prayer/Bible study group are Salvadoran. They know their Bible quite well.
Thank you. I knew that didn’t sound quite right.
Thank you!
I came back for just that reason.
When they scour the internet to try to find any anti-Catholic screed they can, even at an amazing stretch of reality, I understand they keep a drip-cloth between themselves and the computer to catch the saliva.
Just an interesting piece of information.
Because it opens the door for mandatory reading of the Koran too.
By the way, the two parties against the bill are the FMLN and the CD.
When you look those up, you realize they are Communist parties. I’m sure you remember the FMLN from years ago.
Because religious education and discipleship belong in the family and in the church - whatever church the family chooses - not in government institutions. I would oppose mandatory Bible reading in the county schools for which I pay taxes, for the same reason. State imposition of any religious practice is unsuitable.
No, because it must be the Bible.
The real controversy is over which translation of the Bible might be read, or if that was up to the teachers, of which over 90 percent are Catholic, so I really don’t get the issue from any Catholics here on this.
It’s bizarre.
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