Israeli School Regrets Burning New Testament.

EWTN ^ | 12/26/01

[marshmallow]

JERUSALEM, Dec 26, 01 (CWNews.com) - A Jewish school on Tuesday expressed regret for holding a public burning of a copy of the New Testament, saying the event was a demonstration for students against Christian proselytizing efforts.

A spokeswoman for Orot, a public school in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, said a teacher held the outdoor book-burning for his sixth-grade class in early December, destroying a Bible a missionary gave to a pupil. "We regret that this incident occurred," spokesman Jordana Klein said. "The intentions were not to criticize Christianity, but only to tell these Jewish boys that they don't have to listen to the missionaries." Klein said Orot pupils were regularly targeted by "aggressive" Christian missionaries living in the Jewish state.

The principal of the school had been summoned by Israel's Education Ministry for a disciplinary hearing. "This is a grave matter and the ministry condemns book-burning of any kind," a spokesman said. The school later said that if a child comes to school with a Bible given to him by missionaries, officials will tell him to take it home so his parents can decide what to do with it.

Proselytizing children is a criminal offense in Israel.

[marshmallow]

Hey, we have that in the US, too.

Over here it's the ACLU that does the Bible-trashing.

[Broward Lion]

What are they afraid of? This is more like our "peace loving" moslem neighbors.

[pointsal]

PING....

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR today. Of course, burning a NT does nothing but make someone look foolish. It's almost as foolish to think that someone can be "coverted" to Christianity by another human being.

[Cicero]

Your name says that you are Ghengis Kahn from Westchester? Do you make piles of skulls in the schoolyard?

[marshmallow]

The ACLU has been in the vanguard of the fight to eliminate any and all mention of God from schools and indeed all facets of public life. While not physically setting fire to Bibles, its work is directed to the same end.

It seldom defends conservative causes.

Those are the facts.

[anniegetyourgun]

Pay no attention to #8 - just another God-hater who joined FR today...

[marshmallow]

Removing the commandments/dogma of somebody's particular superstition from the school house walls is not the same as taking away someones's right to worship.

I stated that ACLU has been one of the major players in removing religion from schools and public life. You are agreeing with me, I believe. Further, your placement of an apostrophe before the "e" in "somebody's" implies the singular form of the possessive. That is incorrect. It is not the "particular superstition" of one person, nor is it even superstition. At least you're consistently wrong.

I would argue with your use of the word seldom, but as you did not actually disagree with me I'll let it go.

Don't let it go. Because I am disagreeing with you. Totally. Post some examples of the ACLU going into bat for conservative causes and I'll post some of their work against the freedom of relgion.

And as far as I'm concerned, the sooner we are rid of the foolish and discredited notion of faith and god the better. But that's just me.

You're in for a long wait.

[marshmallow]

"before the "e" in "somebody's"

Make that "y" in somebody's.

[LarryLied]

Don't bother mentioning that the ACLU does not burn any books

Be better if they and the ADL did burn books. What they do is slander, sue and financially wreck people. Books can be replaced. What one spends a life time creating is harder to regain.

[FreePaul]

Their real regret is that it got publicized in the US. Why don't they express their real feelings for the New Testament? Or did they?

[Godfollow]

Ya, but look who makes up the bulk of ACLU... bet they're mostly athiestic Jews.

[TopQuark]

Their real regret is that it got publicized in the US. Why don't they express their real feelings for the New Testament? Or did they? Things are never what they seem to you, aren't they?

[Governor StrangeReno]

I don't know about burning books but id say I have the worlds record for 'the watchtower' toss.

[TopQuark]

Ya, but look who makes up the bulk of ACLU... bet they're mostly athiestic Jews. And lawyers. Mostly people over 5ft in height. Or, sorry: I digressed, you only want to talk about the Jeeeews.

[TopQuark]

Ya, but look who makes up the bulk of ACLU... bet they're mostly athiestic Jews. And lawyers. Mostly people over 5ft in height. Or, sorry: I digressed, you only want to talk about the Jeeeews.

[LarryLied]

The ACLU is like the NAACP. Anyone can join but the leadership and most of their supporters do seem, correct me if I am wrong, to be somewhat homogenous.

[Sonny M]

My gripe with the A.C.L.U. is that they see the U.S. constitution as some kind of menu where they pick and choose which amendments they like, they'll support freedom of assembly but refuse to help out for firearms, or refuse to support freedom of religion but support protection against unlawfull search and seisure (and I do understand where they are coming from on that) but never the less. The constitution is not a menu, you do not pick and choose if you claim you are protecting it.

[Godfollow]

Nope, you missed the point, the emphases is on atheistic.

And when you combine atheistic with Jew, you should have a oxymoron on your hands, due to the fact that the Israel was a nation developed by God, (see the Christian Old Testament or the Jewish Torah).

Jesus was a Jew, His parents were Jews, His message was directed firstly at the Jews. The Jews gave us Christianity. Yet today's Jews mostly reject the message of Christ, and not only reject it but do every thing in their power to quell it, and that power in the US resides namely within the ACLU.

That's not to say however that there are no Christian Jews, there are, and they generally are the most educated and fervent amongst Christian believers.

[anniegetyourgun]

It's useless to engage in dialog with someone who does not have ears to hear.

[Snuffington]

Just what I expect from the Superstitious Right..."Ignore him, maybe he'll just go away. Whatever you do don't engage him, you might be forced to think!"

There are plenty of thoughtful atheists on Free Republic. You seem to be one of the other sort - the kind that wants attention for your atheism. Perhaps that's not correct, but it certainly is how you're coming across.

[anniegetyourgun]

No thanks - it's a fool who has said in his heart, there is no God. I don't have time for foolishness.

[onyx]

Bravo!