[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Charles Bennett]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

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> On 30 Nov 2007, at 03:14, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>> I admit there's a ruckuss in the media about creationism in Science
>> over in the US but that's just in backward areas right?
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> Be afraid, be very afraid. Creationists are infiltrating schools in
> (at least) Denmark and Germany. There was a documentary from a
> reliable film maker on one of the most conservative channels here in
> Germany about this around 6 months ago.
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> More recently, friends of ours reported that they were confronted with
> creationist school teachers at an open day at a *primary* school here
> in Berlin.


So..  Just to be clear.  Your friends object to a Creationist teacher  
being in a school where Islam may taught?

WTF?  Over.

It is the German the courts that ORDERD the ok for the wee little  
Islamists to received religious education IN the schools so I don't  
see the problem with any particular invisible man getting his/her/it's  
due in school.

<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2DC173EF935A35752C1A96E958260 
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In case you can't get at it..  (from all the way back in 1998, but  
google will turn up many recent hits.)

"After a long dispute, a Berlin court has ruled that the city's 35,000  
Muslim children will be allowed to receive Islamic religious  
instruction in schools for the first time.
The decision, long resisted by the city government, opens the way for  
the Islamic Federation, a group representing many of Berlin's 220,000  
Muslims, to give lessons on the Koran and Islamic tradition.

Up to now no such instruction had been available, although classes in  
the Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths were offered."

IMHO, your friends  are worried about the wrong religion.

OTOH,  it is ok your name your Teddy Bear Mohammed as long as you  
don't put him in a cartoon.

Folks are so worried about the US and our Fundies that they can't see  
the nose on their faces.

=c=


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