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To: annalex
Schools are unlike parks but they are, like a park, public places.

Negative. They are not public places and in fact are treated as such.

In fact, they are the public places where the presence of religion is more important than parks, because we get our education primarily in schools and not in parks.

Negative. If your children are only getting religion in school, then nothing short of God Himself can rescue them.

I do not call for sedition at all, or for a departure from the original American system where people moved around and formed religiously homogenous communities all the time, and religion was a public affair.

Religion was never a public affair in the US. Public prayer was, sure. But not the elevation of religion

I do indeed call for rupturing all ties some mislead Euriopean countries have, to the EU as an evil insititution. If you mean “sedition” in the sense “from the EU” then it is an unusual terminology, but the issue is hardly novel: the whole EU empire hardly emerged and already is dictating people what to hang on school walls.

The various European countries have been hundreds of years trying to make this happen. Again, this ruling is only the enforcement of Italian laws. Why not put it back onto the Italians to fix their Constitution? If their Constitution was not the shambles that most things Italian are, we would not be discussing this.

129 posted on 11/20/2009 5:35:25 PM PST by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

I agree that children should get religion from a religious source (church, that is, but we speak broadly of all religions). I also agree that it would be best if Italy were left alone to sort out her legal system, even though if they make it compatible to the atheistic EU, then their system becomes illegitimate as well.

But these are technicalities.

On the rest, I disagree. I don’t understand this public-but-not-quite-public distinction between parks and schools. This is special pleading for the schools, I think.


130 posted on 11/20/2009 6:18:28 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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