Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: 1st amendment (was: religious courses in a secular school) Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 07:25:10 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 37 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article math1h3@jetson.uh.edu writes: +and constitutional, I find myself paying for schools that now offer +a rather hostile environment for Christians. (There is an unstated You, as a group, don't seem to mind paying for a large defence budget which in all likelyhood if used would have kill far more individuals than just the fielded troops. The Cold War arms race was supported by numerous Christian preachers as 'God's will'. How presumptous. +What I would like to see, although the current trend is in the opposite +direction, is for more christian churches to provide christian schools, +supported by offerings, so that middle and lower income families can Unfortunately, church schools are not 'free of sin'. You can easily explain promiscuity at 'public school' due to the Adversary's control of the situation. But what of the church school. Or don't you believe church school students engage in sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. It takes a great amount of 'maturity' to realize that the preacher's son is an independent entity and his behavior does not reflect on the father's. However, at 14 I could not discern the moral code which imparted immunity to the P.K. and not to me. We both smoked and drank, but when I was caught, I was kicked out. When he was caught there was silence. There lots of 'observations' from the other point of view which most Christians seem to ignore. They seem to blithely go on unaware that the world would not be any more perfect if there was prayer and Bible reading in the schools. The major contribution that a church school can contribute, if there is one, is the directness which parents may address the faculty, and the control or contribution to the direction of the school. But this is true for any private school. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu