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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:16:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Karim Nassar writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Karim Nassar writes:
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> > > > I'm not just generalizing randomly here... every person I know who
> > > > is Christian has at some point made a point of trying to steer me towards
> > > > conversion... even when I tell them before hand that I am not interested).
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> > > Hmm. When's the last time Sproat tried to convert you?
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> > I haven't ever tried to convert Karim.
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> Wow, James... :) In my entire very carefully worded post, you've managed to
> pick out the one exageration... but an unintentional one. Perhaps what I
> should have said is: "every person I have known personally and interacted with
> regularly on a personal basis who is actively Christian has at some point made
> a point of trying to steer me towards conversion." [now, I *think* that
> statement plugs all the loopholes :) ]
:) Fair enough. I've never (to my knowledge!) attempted to convert anyone
without them having opened the topic, and I've certainly never told someone I
know what's best for them. I would consider myself strongly christian, but I
also strongly hold the view that your soul isn't any of my business.
> Where I do take offense is in the realm of religious groups infringing on my
> freedoms and those of my children. The fact that the Religious Right is
> gradually succeeding in removing real science from and re-writing the
> curriculum of public schools in America is personally terrifying to me. It
> should be to all of you. When I have children I fully intend to homeschool
> them, because I don't want their minds twisted by the so-called "education"
> that is becoming prevailent in public schools in this region of the country.
Neat (in a twisted, bad kind of way). I would fight against that too. Public
schools aren't the place to push religion. I can't speak for other areas of
Canada, but we don't have that problem in Alberta. If anything, it goes the
other way - about a decade or so ago, there was a mild guffuffle because a
student was told he wasn't allowed to have a cross in his locker, due to it
being a public school. I guess a fair amount of that gets deflected up here
because we have a seperate (Catholic) school system(1).
James
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1:Yes Larry, that's publicly funded as well, but people can explicitly indicate
on their tax forms which system they are supporting. Theoretically, one system
or the other could get no tax dollars. Most people however, supporting my
cynical apathy of life theory, don't fill it out and their tax dollars get
split between the systems (75 public, 25 seperate? can't recall the numbers
precisely, but it's something like that).
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| I'm against public funding of schools as it implies a right to an education (which is a free good) But if you HAVE to have public funding... (...) this is a better way than what we generally do in the US, which is if you want to send your kids (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Wow, James... :) In my entire very carefully worded post, you've managed to pick out the one exageration... but an unintentional one. Perhaps what I should have said is: "every person I have known personally and interacted with regularly on a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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