Posted on 06/02/2005 8:09:10 AM PDT by EarthStomper
***Wallace Nobrainer, the attorney for the Artichoke school system, explained that "the Homeric texts are obviously designed to promote the polytheistic view of the Greeks," and hence they should be looked upon in the same light as the reading of the Book of Psalms in a public school. "We don't want taxpayer dollars being spent in order to proselyte children into praying to Zeus and Apollo," remarked Debra Klewless, the chairperson of the Board of Education. "If we forbid the teaching of one religion, we must be consistent and forbid the teaching of all religions."***
They're STORIES. How many people does this guy believe actually worship Zeus these days? Should be a no-brainer (can't believe that's the attorney's name!)
Watch out, Disney. They're coming after your talking animals next!
The Hollywood version of "The Illiad", "Troy", actually stripped out all of the gods.
i did read the whole article. haha, but i left off my "</sarcasm>"
my mistake!
I know people who do worship these old Gods. But that wasn't the point of the piece. Read the whole thing. He was arguing by analogy.
see my post #6 plz
I wonder what this "intelectual's" position is on reading Milton's 'Paradise Lost' in school?
So9
I've done that before!
You must mean "these old gods", don't you?
Yep. Didn't realize what I had written until after I posted it...
I am not a wiccan. or neo-Pagan. But I do know some, and I know there is a growing movement in various parts of Europe to rekindle worship of the traditional pre-Christian gods. Greece very definitely has a group like this. I read something about them recently.
i think we all have.
what if you post a double-sarcasm? does it cancel out the smart-assedness, or does it blow the sarcasm into some crazy exponential upward spiral, the likes of which mankind has never experienced?
just a thought...
two negatives do not equal a positive in sarcasm....
just digs the hole a bit deeper ;-)
Actually, there's no problem teaching either the Illiad or the Bible as literature. In fact many public schoold do have a Bible as Literature class. Or comparative religions class.
Google "Greek Temples". Read.
Nothing new but the end of it is soon upon us. check this out...
Gen 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
I keep reading about schools where that occurs - yet I've never seen a single on named, nor habve I ever encountered one.
well the lawsuit in Montgomery Co. won by parents, stopped a whole lot of stuff along those lines.
I knowest knot what thou speakest.
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