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MarkCharles Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-11 12:22 PM
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15. It may well be a "social/political agenda" but toward what end?
I agree, it is attempting to use the more amorphous democratic principles of "censorship" or "fairness", but what is their ultimate goal here? Obviously, it's an attempt to convert more people to their brand of rigid Christianity.

In the end, this is sneaky underhanded evangelism and prosthelytizing, pure and simple, so typical of Christianity and religion in general, make people feel guilty and fearful, and then get your hooks in them.
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  -She Say Teaching Only Evolution Is Censorship Quartermass  Dec-02-11 11:45 AM   #0 
  - I don't think religion needs to be kept out of schools  Ohio Joe   Dec-02-11 11:48 AM   #1 
  - Agreed.  cleanhippie   Dec-02-11 11:52 AM   #3 
  - If so, it needs to be an elective. No one should be forced to take a religion class. n/t  Avalux   Dec-02-11 11:53 AM   #7 
  - Agreed  Ohio Joe   Dec-02-11 12:07 PM   #12 
  - To study something you have to have facts, so let them put all their facts  Angry Dragon   Dec-02-11 11:53 AM   #8 
     - I'm not sure I understand you  Ohio Joe   Dec-02-11 12:12 PM   #14 
        - you don't get it - these people want to teach ONLY the jesus cult - no "fair number of religions" nt  msongs   Dec-02-11 12:45 PM   #16 
        - I understand that just fine  Ohio Joe   Dec-02-11 12:48 PM   #17 
        - I was talking about Christianity  Angry Dragon   Dec-02-11 01:17 PM   #20 
           - I agree, she is a complete loony toon  Ohio Joe   Dec-02-11 01:27 PM   #21 
  - These people just don't get the fact that anything they have to point to the bible  Warpy   Dec-02-11 11:51 AM   #2 
  - But Warpy, what about all those "other ways of knowing"?  cleanhippie   Dec-02-11 11:53 AM   #6 
     - I'm sure Michelle "knows". She already told us all she "knows"  MarkCharles   Dec-02-11 11:58 AM   #10 
  - Yeah, teaching only science in science class is censorship.  dtexdem   Dec-02-11 11:52 AM   #4 
  - And teaching only French in French class. etc.  MarkCharles   Dec-02-11 11:59 AM   #11 
  - Hearing this from the lunatics is getting so very tiresome.  Avalux   Dec-02-11 11:53 AM   #5 
  - I see that the Creatards have finally found their most intelligent spokesperson.  MarkCharles   Dec-02-11 11:55 AM   #9 
  - Creation myths and various arguments from design  HereSince1628   Dec-02-11 12:11 PM   #13 
  - It may well be a "social/political agenda" but toward what end?  MarkCharles   Dec-02-11 12:22 PM   #15 
     - I think it's several things that are inter-related...  HereSince1628   Dec-02-11 04:24 PM   #27 
  - She should come for Darwin Week at Northern Iowa  exboyfil   Dec-02-11 12:53 PM   #18 
  - Crying wolf is also censorship  Blue Owl   Dec-02-11 01:12 PM   #19 
  - It's turtles all the way down, bitches. n/t  Goblinmonger   Dec-02-11 01:28 PM   #22 
  - Whenever she opens her mouth on national TV, most people conclude she's batshizz-in-the-belfry  struggle4progress   Dec-02-11 01:29 PM   #23 
  - She's not alone, even Rick Santorum is in her camp...isn't he a Catholic?  MarkCharles   Dec-02-11 01:59 PM   #24 
  - He is Catholic. But his position isn't the church's position. Plus he's running at 4%.  struggle4progress   Dec-02-11 02:46 PM   #26 
  - "So I think the best thing to do is to let all scientific facts on the table...."  Rob H.   Dec-02-11 02:13 PM   #25 
  - She's right  NMMNG   Dec-02-11 07:19 PM   #28 
 

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