Hypocrisy
I do not understand how a country lets a man sue to have the saying "Under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance can do something like this. A country that has the Ten Commandments removed from a building, a country that argues that its foundation isn't Christian and really tries to wipe its religious heritage out with all of its lawsuits and "establishment clauses," that same country allows a California school to teach Islam through role playing for a month. Without the parents consent.
When I was a sophomore in high school I had to have a permission slip signed by my mother so I could study the Bible as literature.
But the 9th Court of Appeals has ruled that this teaching of Islam is constitutional, and that there is no breach of the Establishment Clause.
Why, as a country, do we hate ourselves so much and love the cultures of others? Why can we not be proud of our own Christian heritage and teach our own heritage, as literature or just as history, not as proselytizing, but just teach it? Why can't we value our own values as much as we value the culture of others?
I have no problem with the teaching of other religions. I think it only right that we understand what else is out there. But a month of role playing? Of saying prayers and walking with the correct foot and taking things with the correct hand? Without parental consent? These children don't exist in a vaccum and context has to be given on all levels, from parents first and foremost, not the teachers.
This saddens me. We kick our own religion out of school to the point that a moment of silence is viewed as a Christian occurance and yet we welcome the religions of others readily. Why? Why are we so afraid of Christianity? They should be taught equally or not at all.
I expect that same teacher in California to have a Christian role playing month -- and to call Christmas by its name and not by the secular title "Holiday."
Note: the occurance in question, the role playing, happened in 2002. No word on if or how the curriculum was changed. I found this story at Michelle Malkin.
When I was a sophomore in high school I had to have a permission slip signed by my mother so I could study the Bible as literature.
But the 9th Court of Appeals has ruled that this teaching of Islam is constitutional, and that there is no breach of the Establishment Clause.
Why, as a country, do we hate ourselves so much and love the cultures of others? Why can we not be proud of our own Christian heritage and teach our own heritage, as literature or just as history, not as proselytizing, but just teach it? Why can't we value our own values as much as we value the culture of others?
I have no problem with the teaching of other religions. I think it only right that we understand what else is out there. But a month of role playing? Of saying prayers and walking with the correct foot and taking things with the correct hand? Without parental consent? These children don't exist in a vaccum and context has to be given on all levels, from parents first and foremost, not the teachers.
This saddens me. We kick our own religion out of school to the point that a moment of silence is viewed as a Christian occurance and yet we welcome the religions of others readily. Why? Why are we so afraid of Christianity? They should be taught equally or not at all.
I expect that same teacher in California to have a Christian role playing month -- and to call Christmas by its name and not by the secular title "Holiday."
Note: the occurance in question, the role playing, happened in 2002. No word on if or how the curriculum was changed. I found this story at Michelle Malkin.
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