God and the School District

[discocrisco01]

I am currently agnostic. If there is a God, I lean towards Christianity and towards conservative theology.

While there is a lot of things that I admire about the Christian faith, the one thing that I resent is Christians trying to force "God" down people's throat. If you are going to spread the message that Jesus is the way to God, the proper method is to attract people to your message by living a life in accordance with scripture and preaching the word.

However, the secular institutions are suppose to be seperate from the church. All of faiths have the equal right to express themselves in the public realm and no particular value system should have strangehold over public institutions.

In Ohio, I think one Christian group went too far. From the Columbus Dispatch

"UNIONTOWN, Ohio (AP) - An atheist group is complaining about an Ohio school district's mission statement listing "belief in God" among its values.

Co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation calls the statement on a recent Lake Local Schools newsletter shocking and a serious violation of the separation of church and state. The Madison, Wis.-based foundation, which represents atheists and agnostics, has written to officials in the northeast Ohio district asking that they immediately remove "belief in God" from school publications and Web sites.

Superintendent Jeff Wendorf says officials and district lawyers are looking into the matter. He says the phrase has been included in the mission statement for years"

I am with the atheists at this one.

[imdjh]

1. Looks like Lake Elementary has a comprehension problem.

"Students Day begins 8:15 AM (Tardy at 8:25) to end 3:10 PM (First bell)"

If student day begins at 8:15 then 8:16 is tardy, not 8:25. Jesus, we're raising another generation of people who think you're "being a hard ass" when you expect people to be on time? Just what we need. Another generation that thinks half-assed or just-enough is sufficient.

[rurallib]

2. Welcome to DU - an ungodly place if ever there was one

Well the founders went to great lengths to keep shit like this happening having seen what mixing state and religion can do in Europe.
Yet we have all sorts of so-called patriots that are happy to shove their version of a deity down our throats.
I pay taxes. Like you I am an unbeliever. I do not want my taxes to pay for proselytizing by christians, muslims, jews, hindis nor spaghettiists.
If these people want their children to be godified, start their own schools like the catholics did.