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rfw
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 7:48 am
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Why did the editor feel the need to have balanced coverage on the article about the CFI Billboard but not on this article? If you have religious people's opinions in the article about the CFI Billboard then to really be a fair and balanced newspaper, you should have included nonreligious peoples' opinions in this one. Another example of religious privilege.

rfw
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 8:22 am
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Why not comments from nonreligious leaders on this article about religious education in the schools and a headline: Local Nonreligious Object to Religious Education in Public Schools? With all the talk about more time for basic education, why is time being taken away from basic education for religious indoctrination? That should be left up to parents and churches on their own time and not on school time.

rfw
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 3:51 pm
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Here are court cases and gudlines for released time for religious instruction in public schools. Parents should be alert. If you school is violating any of these, please file a complaint with the school and if it does not stop then take it higher. http://www.ffrf.org/faq/public-school-violations/release-time-for-religious-activities/

Justamother
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 4:34 pm
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I am not getting in to a controversy on religion. Weekday Religious Education is a wonderful program. Unless options have changed a child has the option of staying at school or going to the religious class. They have fun there. Maybe the other poster should have tried it. I had 4 who enjoyed the Green Twp. class over the years and we participated in the sponsoring and working in the Weekday program.

Charlie
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 6:27 pm
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"Unless options have changed a child has the option of staying at school or going to the religious class. They have fun there."

Here is the problem with that. Children will believe anything adults tell them, whether it is true or not. Its an evolutionary thing. Children who lived 100,000 years ago who would not listen to their parents when told not to swim in a certain river or eat a certain berry, were eaten by crocodiles or died of poisoning. This eventually removed those from the gene pool who had a propensity to disregard what their parents told them.

This explains why, if you were mistakenly switched at birth and sent home with a Muslim mother, you would grow up with the Islam religion. If you were sent home with a Hindu mother, you would grow up as a Hindu.

Filling a child's head full of unverifiable foolishness before their brains have developed enough to reason and think critically, is second only to the crime of sexually abusing their bodies as the Catholic pedophile priests and many protestant preachers and "youth ministers" have done.

nobodyimportant
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 8:01 pm
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Free speech is a wonderful thing. Arguing with those who don't believe in God usually isn't productive, so I won't try. As non-believers approach old age, they usually start hearing the song in their head, "Is that all there is?" I'll pray for you Charlie and RFW. You may not welcome it, but I'll do it anyway. My prayer is that you will change your mind before your time here on planet Earth is done.

Sparrow
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 9:48 pm
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Right off the top of my head I can think of 2 accounts of ministers abusing children right here in Martinsville, Indiana w/in the last six years..

There was the 63 year old minister who was arrested for molesting a 6 year old in July of last year and a 25 year old youth minister arrested for having sex weith a teenage girl and soliciting another in 2006.

Also, there was the married "gentleman" who was the long-time minister for the Morgan County Sherrif's Department who was arrested for giving perks to the female inmates in return for sexual favors.

Plus, it seems like I'm missing someone. Again, this is just right here in Martinsville within the last six years.

These people are the vessels that bring us the word of god.

Charlie
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 9:49 pm
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nobodyimportant said, " I'll pray for you Charlie and RFW. You may not welcome it, but I'll do it anyway. My prayer is that you will change your mind before your time here on planet Earth is done."

"I'll pray for you."

Translation: I want the best for you as long as it takes no real effort on my part.

Prayer does not work. Any number of studies has shown it doesn't work. Muslims pray 5 times a day...billions of prayers daily, and continue to slaughter each other (and us) every day. The pope prays for peace, yet peace never comes. The only thing that will save civilization is to get up off our knees and get to work doing things that actually help...like educating our children...teaching them how to think rather than what to think.

Ratcatcher
Saturday, April 14, 2012: 10:00 pm
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Sparrow said:
These people are the vessels that bring us the word of god.

I for one am not a baby animal that eats food regurgitated back to me from a parent. Therefore I do not depend on a minister to read and interpret the word of God and then pass it on to me once a week at Sunday service. I can and do read it myself and the Bible instructs me to. If more people spent time reading the Bible themselves they wouldn't get led astray by cult leaders and the like.

nobodyimportant
Sunday, April 15, 2012: 8:07 am
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There are a lot of things one can "do" to help someone else, but in bringing someone to the point of accepting Christ as God and Savior, I can only think of two. I can pray for them and I can share the truth, the good news.

The world is made up of imperfect people, inside and outside of the church. I would not deny that, in the name of "religion", there have been and are now bad people. To use that as a reason not to believe is just that, an excuse to deny.

I won't argue, because arguing is a mental exercise in fighting, and I have never heard of people coming to Christ by force. Many have been forced to identify with a religion by occupying forces, but that doesn't change hearts.

If it turns out that I and those who like me who have accepted Christ are right, I'm in a good place. If I am not right, what have I lost? That brings me peace, and at my age, peace is wonderful.

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